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What does Social Capital invest in?
Social Capital invests most often at Seed and Series A (62% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Advanced Materials and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML).
Social Capital highlights
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 62% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 25 rounds, median $3.4M
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14 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Up to $15M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- AI & Machine LearningAdvanced MaterialsArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first274 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Apr
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
6 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- Jun
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- 2024
13 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2023
10 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2022
14 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
C(Chamath (nmn) PalihapitiyaDirector of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
DEDavid EgglishawDirectoriFiling they signed
KAKusuma AlaChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
MHMamoon HamidDirector of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
NDNathan DayDirectoriFiling they signed
TMTed MaidenbergDirector of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 19 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.7Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- The Social+capital Partnership LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 304525
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed14 in all
SecondMarketBought by NASDAQ OMXUndisclosedOct 2015
UClassBought by Renaissance LearningUndisclosedFeb 2015
ScanBought by Snapchat$50MDec 2014
RelayBought by Kik$38MNov 2014
GyftBought by First Data Corporation$7.5MJul 2014
LemonBought by LifeLock$43MDec 2013
WheelzBought by TuroUndisclosedMay 2013
LoreBought by NoodleUndisclosedMar 2013
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.