Investing Profile

Trae Stephens(1)

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Partner at Founders Fund

foundersfund.com/team/trae-st...San Francisco, California

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Current Investing Position

Founders Fund Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $150.0M

Sweet Spot

$5.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$3B

Trae Stephens is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Trae Stephens's Investments On Record (24)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Nominal	Series BMar 2026$80M Series BJun 2025$75M SeedApr 2024$8M	$210M
Co-investors: Delian Asparouhov (Founders Fund), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Kyle Lui (Bling Capital), Matthew Cowan (Next47)
Outtake	Series BJan 2026$40M	$40M
Erebor Bank, N.A.	Series UnknownDec 2025$350M	$350M
Co-investors: Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital)
Substrate	Series AOct 2025$100M	$110M
Co-investors: Nnamdi Iregbulem (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Will Gaybrick
Dirac	SeedAug 2025$11M	$11M
Co-investors: Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital)
Eight Sleep	Series DAug 2025$100M Series CAug 2021$86M Series CNov 2019$40M	$250M
Co-investors: Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Jason Calacanis (Sequoia Capital), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), Alex Rodriguez (Vision/Capital/People (VCP)), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Patrick O'Shaughnessy (Positive Sum VC), Geoffrey Woo (Anti fund), Avlok Kohli (AngelList), Moshe Lifschitz (Basement Fund), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Niv Dror (Shrug Capital), James Murphy (Proton Enterprises), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Scott Belsky (A24), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild), Jared Friedman (Israel Defense Forces), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Shawn Dimantha (Angel investor), Chris Moreno (Xeal), Alexander Piskunov (KAAN Ventures), Anthony Pompliano, Babak Nivi, Sahil Lavingia, Karim Atiyeh
Armada	Series UnknownJul 2025$130M SeedFeb 2023$13M	$240M
Co-investors: James Currier (NFX), Viviana Faga (Felicis Ventures), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Larry Chu (Stealth Company (Omid E. Izadjou)), Mislav Tolusic (Marlinspike), Michael Stewart (M12), Kerem Ozmen (8090 Industries), Ron Pragides, Eric Futoran
Varda	Series CJul 2025$190M Series BApr 2024$90M SeedDec 2020$9M	$500M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Delian Asparouhov (Founders Fund), Paul Grossinger (Gaingels), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Ben Braverman (Saga), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Mike Annunziata (Also Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Joao Otavio Oliverio (Clube FII), Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners), Kyle Tibbitts (Paradox Capital), Vineet Jain, William Miller, Mattia Astori, Sohila Zadran, Justin Mateen, Austin Ogilvie