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Ken Loveless

Founder of Founders Circle Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Ken Loveless is a Partner and Co-founder at Founders Circle Capital, with a focus on venture capital and private equity investments in various sectors including Lodging/Hospitality, SaaS, and Manufacturing. He has successfully invested in high-profile companies like Looker and Robinhood, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting successful startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Partner and Co-founder

    2012 - Current

    Founders Circle is a growth stage venture firm that “invests in people'', wholly committed to those who are leading today's fastest growing companies and navigating the unique challenges of transitioning from product-market fit to hyperscale. Founders Circle focuses on “people building” by way of two services: flexible capital to meet the needs of growth-stage companies and a private leadership community called The Circle, connecting 250+ on-the-ground CEOs and CFOs who collectively engage in peer-to-peer professional development.

Founders Circle Capital is a growth-stage investment firm that focuses on investing in people.

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2020

  • Investor

    2020

  • Investor

    2020

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.

  • Investor

    2019

GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams.

Raised $413,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Management Corporation, ICONIQ Growth, Alkeon Capital, Light Street Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Coatue, Two Sigma Private Investments, Adage Capital Management and Tiger Global Management.

  • Investor

    2019

Auth0 is a cloud identity management SAAS application for the web, mobile, IoT, and internal software.

Raised $332,275,000.00 from Steadfast Capital Management and Employee Stock Option Fund.

  • Investor

    2019

Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.

  • Investor

    2018

Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.

Raised $955,000,000.00 from NVIDIA and IBM.

  • Investor

    2016

Bark is the company behind BarkBox, a subscription-based e-commerce and content company for dog lovers.

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