{"id":95781,"date":"2025-06-13T04:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/after-a-string-of-successes-early-stage-fund-felicis-raises-fresh-900m\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:56:21","slug":"after-a-string-of-successes-early-stage-fund-felicis-raises-fresh-900m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/after-a-string-of-successes-early-stage-fund-felicis-raises-fresh-900m\/","title":{"rendered":"After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 19th year as an institutional early-stage investor by announcing the firm\u2019s biggest fund yet: a $900 million Fund X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This follows the $825 million Fund IX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1964181\/000196418123000001\/xslFormDX01\/primary_doc.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">raised in 2023<\/a> and the $600 million Fund XIII <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1875660\/000187566021000001\/xslFormDX01\/primary_doc.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">raised in 2021<\/a>. Felicis, a seed and Series A firm, is known for backing a long string of successes, including Ayden, Bonobos, Ring, Shopify, and Twitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.felicis.com\/companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">among others.<\/a> Since being founded in 2006, Felicis has backed over 50 unicorns and had over 125 exits, it says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately, Felicis, like most VCs, has been all over AI. Its portfolio now includes, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/12\/browser-use-one-of-the-tools-powering-manus-is-also-going-viral\/\">Browser Use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/02\/ai-coding-startup-poolside-raises-500m-from-ebay-nvidia-and-others\/\">Poolside<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/03\/runway-best-known-for-its-video-generating-models-raises-308m\/\">Runway<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/22\/vibe-coding-helps-supabase-nab-200m-at-2b-valuation-just-seven-months-after-its-last-raise\/\">Supabase<\/a>. \u201cWe believe dozens of $100B+ AI companies will emerge this decade (not merely $1B or $10B),\u201d Felicis\u00a0wrote in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.felicis.com\/insight\/fund-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">blog post<\/a>, adding that 70% of its active portfolio are what it considers AI-native startups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senkut did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/12\/after-a-string-of-successes-early-stage-fund-felicis-raises-fresh-900m\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 19th year as an institutional early-stage investor by announcing the firm\u2019s biggest fund yet: a $900 million Fund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}