What does Franklin Templeton invest in?
Franklin Templeton invests most often at Venture and Debt (58% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Industrial and Water.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 197 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $160M, Oct 2026Private equity
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61 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Venture and Debt: 58% of its rounds
Sole investor in 10 rounds, median $18M
Filed 2 private fund offerings with the SEC, the most recent in 2023-06From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first197 appearances
46 rounds
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Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration24 named
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Funds on its Form ADV
11 private funds, $447M in gross assets · filed Dec 2024
Real estate 8Hedge 3
And 1 more on the filing.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Franklin Templeton. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Franklin Templeton put money into.
6 episodes naming Franklin Templeton in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

Franklin Templeton CEO on SpaceX, Anthropic, Circular Deals & the State of the Market

Franklin Templeton’s Dave Donahoo - “start with the end client” - live from AGM’s RIA Field Trip
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Breaking bread at Franklin Templeton's Private Markets RIA Advisory Council - Franklin Templeton's Dave Donahoo and Summit Wealth Group's Chelsea Ganey
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Franklin Templeton's George Stephan - bringing public and private together

E226: How Franklin Templeton Built a $1.6 Trillion Business Through Partnerships

Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, on how to build and maintain a $1.5T global investment firm across multiple decades
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Clarion Partners’ Josh Pristaw - an industrious approach to real estate investing

Benefit Street Partners' Michael Comparato - the opportunity in commercial real estate credit

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Lexington Partners' Taylor Robinson - secondaries in the spotlight
Franklin Templeton invests most often at Venture and Debt (58% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Industrial and Water.
197 investments on record, 61 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 7. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Warhound (Seed, Oct 2026), Waymo (Debt, Oct 2026) and Tempus (Grant, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $64M.
Sometimes: it led 7 of its 197 investments on record (4%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (82%) and Australia (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 61 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Andreessen Horowitz (28 rounds together), Coatue (23 rounds together) and Y Combinator (16 rounds together).
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