Biggest launches
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 139M | 5,492,151 | 3 Sep 2026 |
| SpaceX | 44.8M | 41,942,134 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| Flex Port | 10.6M | 753,852 | 29 Sep 2026 |
| Anduril Industries | 7.7M | 296,561 | 27 Jan 2026 |
| The Boring Company | 6.6M | 1,196,633 | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Google DeepMind | 4.7M | 1,594,309 | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Palantir | 4.2M | 452,965 | 3 Aug 2026 |
| Prime Intellect | 3.2M | 88,249 | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Canva | 2.5M | 341,181 | 29 Oct 2026 |
| NewLimit | 2.1M | 43,012 | 2 Jun 2026 |
| Plasma | 1.8M | 232,475 | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Icon | 1.8M | 24,902 | 25 Aug 2026 |
Breakouts from small accounts
Launches from accounts under 10,000 followers that passed 250K views, one per company.
Who Founders Fund invests alongside
The firms most often on the same cap tables, by number of shared portfolio companies in the directory.
| Firm | Shared companies |
|---|---|
| Valor Equity Partners | 8 of 26 |
| a16z | 8 of 26 |
| Y Combinator | 7 of 26 |
| Friends & Family Capital | 6 of 26 |
| SV Angel | 6 of 26 |
| 137 Ventures | 5 of 26 |
| Thrive Capital | 5 of 26 |
| K5 Global | 5 of 26 |
| Sequoia | 5 of 26 |
| Craft Ventures | 4 of 26 |
By category
| Category | Launches | Median views |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier labs | 61 | 2.7M |
| Developer tools | 29 | 1.9M |
| Consumer and creative AI | 11 | 2.5M |
| Healthtech and regulated AI | 6 | 1.5M |
| Robotics and hardware | 3 | 356K |
| Creative AI | 3 | 8.2M |
Founders Fund portfolio companies on X
| Company | Launches | Total views | Biggest launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 68 | 437.1M | 139M3 Sep 2026 |
| SpaceX | 2 | 50.8M | 44.8M25 Aug 2026 |
| Google DeepMind | 7 | 16.5M | 4.7M8 Sep 2026 |
| Flex Port | 1 | 10.6M | 10.6M29 Sep 2026 |
| Anduril Industries | 4 | 10.2M | 7.7M27 Jan 2026 |
| Prime Intellect | 3 | 7.8M | 3.2M5 Aug 2026 |
| The Boring Company | 1 | 6.6M | 6.6M10 Sep 2026 |
| Canva | 2 | 4.4M | 2.5M29 Oct 2026 |
| Palantir | 1 | 4.2M | 4.2M3 Aug 2026 |
| NewLimit | 1 | 2.1M | 2.1M2 Jun 2026 |
| Plasma | 2 | 1.9M | 1.8M8 Sep 2026 |
| Icon | 1 | 1.8M | 1.8M25 Aug 2026 |
| Stripe | 1 | 1.5M | 1.5M29 Apr 2026 |
| Ondo Finance | 1 | 1.5M | 1.5M24 Sep 2026 |
| Hadrian | 1 | 512K | 512K6 Aug 2026 |
| Sentient | 2 | 499K | 490K27 Oct 2026 |
| Eight Sleep | 1 | 496K | 496K23 Sep 2026 |
| Nucleus Genomics | 1 | 435K | 435K18 Sep 2026 |
| Adaptyv Bio | 2 | 394K | 210K17 Sep 2026 |
| REGENT | 1 | 356K | 356K27 Aug 2026 |
| Crusoe | 1 | 122K | 122K21 Oct 2026 |
| Rippling AI | 1 | 119K | 119K22 Sep 2026 |
| Arena Physica | 1 | 60K | 60K1 Sep 2026 |
| Scenario | 1 | 5K | 5K17 Oct 2026 |
| Stord | 1 | 1K | 1K26 May 2026 |
Questions
Which Founders Fund portfolio companies launch on X?
25 Founders Fund-backed companies have 108 launches in the Doomers launch directory. The biggest by total views are OpenAI, SpaceX, Google DeepMind.
What was the biggest launch from a Founders Fund-backed company?
OpenAI, with 139M views on 3 Sep 2026.
How do Founders Fund-backed launches compare with other launches on X?
The median Founders Fund-backed launch did 2M views, against 602K across every launch we track. 70% passed a million views. By median views the portfolio ranks 2 of the 20 firms we report on.
Where does this data come from?
Views, followers and dates are read from X. A company counts as backed when the firm invested in any round on record, matched to investment records by the company's website, plus companies whose own posts name the firm.
A known gap: about four in ten companies have no investment record yet, mostly the newest, so very young portfolio companies are under-counted.