{"id":1913512,"date":"2026-04-30T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1913512"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:29:49","slug":"spacex-backer-137-ventures-raises-700m-for-two-growth-stage-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1913512","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX backer 137 Ventures raises $700M for two growth-stage funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GettyImages-1399595760.jpg?resize=1200,675&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained wp-block-post-content-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VC firm 137 Ventures announced Thursday that it has raised more than $700 million across two new growth-stage funds to back startups \u201cwith the potential for significant market impact.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past year, the firm, founded by former Founders Fund investor Justin Fishner-Wolfson, said it has deployed more than a billion dollars into companies building in defense, AI, and industrial systems. Its portfolio includes AI agent company Cognition, AI-powered manufacturing company Hadrian Automation, and defense company Anduril.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is also, notably, an investor in Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which is expected to have a historic IPO this year that could value the company at more than a trillion dollars. Bloomberg reported that 137 Ventures first backed SpaceX in 2010 and has since cut the company around two dozen checks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/30\/spacex-backer-137-ventures-raises-700m-for-two-growth-stage-funds\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GettyImages-1399595760.jpg?resize=1200,675&#8243;] VC firm 137 Ventures announced Thursday that it has raised more than $700 million across two new growth-stage funds to back startups \u201cwith the potential for significant market impact.\u201d\u00a0 In the past year, the firm, founded by former Founders Fund investor Justin Fishner-Wolfson, said it has deployed more than a billion dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,62],"class_list":["post-1913512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-techcrunch-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}