Biggest launches
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 139M | 5,492,151 | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Sierra | 26.2M | 13,316 | 4 May 2026 |
| Airtable | 14.4M | 434,502 | 22 May 2026 |
| Anduril Industries | 7.7M | 296,561 | 27 Jan 2026 |
| OpenEvidence | 6.8M | 38,407 | 21 May 2026 |
| NewLimit | 2.1M | 43,012 | 2 Jun 2026 |
| Stripe | 1.5M | 295,708 | 29 Apr 2026 |
| Lacy | 1.5M | 632,739 | 15 Feb 2026 |
| Shopify | 1.3M | 456,678 | 8 Oct 2026 |
| Unity | 621K | 118,038 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Unify | 538K | 5,611 | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Physical Intelligence | 417K | 54,352 | 13 Oct 2026 |
Breakouts from small accounts
Launches from accounts under 10,000 followers that passed 250K views, one per company.
Who Thrive Capital invests alongside
The firms most often on the same cap tables, by number of shared portfolio companies in the directory.
| Firm | Shared companies |
|---|---|
| Sequoia | 8 of 19 |
| a16z | 7 of 19 |
| SV Angel | 7 of 19 |
| Coatue | 5 of 19 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 5 of 19 |
| Founders Fund | 5 of 19 |
| Bedrock | 4 of 19 |
| Felicis | 4 of 19 |
| Spark Capital | 4 of 19 |
| GV | 4 of 19 |
By category
| Category | Launches | Median views |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier labs | 52 | 2.9M |
| Developer tools | 29 | 1.5M |
| Healthtech and regulated AI | 7 | 1.7M |
| Consumer and creative AI | 7 | 4.6M |
| Enterprise AI | 4 | 387K |
| Robotics and hardware | 3 | 417K |
| Fintech | 3 | 324K |
Thrive Capital portfolio companies on X
| Company | Launches | Total views | Biggest launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 68 | 437.1M | 139M3 Sep 2026 |
| Sierra | 3 | 28.7M | 26.2M4 May 2026 |
| Airtable | 1 | 14.4M | 14.4M22 May 2026 |
| Anduril Industries | 4 | 10.2M | 7.7M27 Jan 2026 |
| OpenEvidence | 3 | 9.5M | 6.8M21 May 2026 |
| NewLimit | 1 | 2.1M | 2.1M2 Jun 2026 |
| Shopify | 3 | 1.6M | 1.3M8 Oct 2026 |
| Stripe | 1 | 1.5M | 1.5M29 Apr 2026 |
| Lacy | 1 | 1.5M | 1.5M15 Feb 2026 |
| Unity | 1 | 621K | 621K21 Jul 2026 |
| Unify | 2 | 544K | 538K28 Oct 2026 |
| Physical Intelligence | 1 | 417K | 417K13 Oct 2026 |
| Turbopuffer | 1 | 329K | 329K10 Sep 2026 |
| Lightspark | 1 | 324K | 324K28 Apr 2026 |
| Formation Bio | 1 | 237K | 237K28 Oct 2026 |
| Pace | 1 | 236K | 236K27 May 2026 |
| Amazon | 1 | 143K | 143K8 Oct 2026 |
| Plaid | 1 | 19K | 19K8 Oct 2026 |
Questions
Which Thrive Capital portfolio companies launch on X?
18 Thrive Capital-backed companies have 95 launches in the Doomers launch directory. The biggest by total views are OpenAI, Sierra, Airtable.
What was the biggest launch from a Thrive Capital-backed company?
OpenAI, with 139M views on 3 Sep 2026.
How do Thrive Capital-backed launches compare with other launches on X?
The median Thrive Capital-backed launch did 2M views, against 602K across every launch we track. 69% passed a million views. By median views the portfolio ranks 3 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.