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501 2nd Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94107
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Media & Digital Media
Software & Internet
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Formation 8 is a technology investment firm based in Silicon Valley with a presence in Korea, Singapore and China. Formed by a former executive of Palantir Technologies, Formation 8 is spearheaded by Joe Lonsdale, a founder of Palantir Technologies, a private company focused on analyzing, integrating, and visualizing data. Prior to Palantir, Lonsdale was an early executive at Clarium Capital where he helped Peter Thiel grow the global macro fund to $5 Billion in assets under management. Lonsdale is also founder and Chairman at Addepar, a private wealth management technology company. He previously invested out of Anduin Ventures and recently worked with Lady Gaga to launch Backplane. The firm announced Dec. 2014 that it closed its second fund at about $500 million.
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Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
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| COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
| Venture Capital | |
Seed Stage
(includes "pre-seed," or
concept stage) | No Revenue |
| Early Stage | Minimal
Revenue |
Growth Stage
(also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage
(also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
| Private Equity | |
| Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
| Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
| Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
| Large Cap | >$1B |
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