When was Future Communities founded?

Future Communities was founded in 2018.

Where is Future Communities' headquarters located?

Future Communities' headquarters is located in Berkeley ( United States ).

How many companies has Future Communities invested in?

Future Communities has invested in 23 companies, including Coupang & Palantir.

Which companies has Future Communities invested in lately?

Akido Labs & Sparxell are the latest investments by Future Communities.

What sectors does Future Communities focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Future Communities' portfolio are High Tech (12 investments) and Enterprise Applications (10 investments).

What stages of companies does Future Communities typically invest in?

Future Communities primarily invests in Seed and Series A stages.

How many exits has Future Communities been involved in?

Future Communities' portfolio has seen 4 IPOs and 4 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Future Communities' portfolio?

There is 1 unicorn in Future Communities' portfolio.

Future Communities - 2025 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends - Tracxn

Q: How big is Future Communities' investment team?

Future Communities has a team of 7.

1. Coupang

Online marketplace offering multi-category consumer products. The product catalog includes fashion, beauty, stationery, sports, health care, books, toys, smoking products, pet supplies, groceries, automobiles, electronics, and more.

Key facts about Coupang

Founded Year: 2010
Location: Seoul (South Korea)
Annual Revenue: 4.42T KRW as on Dec 31, 2018
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $3.9B
Investors: HTIF, Cross Creek and 47 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series F, Dec 20, 2019, $100M
Highlight: Public

2. Palantir

Platform that provides data analysis and management solutions. It is a software company that specializes in big data analytics and provides software platforms for analyzing and integrating large amounts of data. Its software powers real-time, AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprise, from the factory floors to the front lines.

Key facts about Palantir

Founded Year: 2003
Location: Denver (United States)
Annual Revenue: 4.66M DKK as on Dec 31, 2016
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $2.46B
Employee Count: 3,936 as on Dec 31, 2024
Investors: Sunrise Ventures, Vulcan Capital and 163 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 31, 2023, $10.1M
Highlight: Public

3. Lyft

App-based ride-hailing aggregator. Their platform enables users to book rides by providing various details like location, passenger details, and more. It offers various services like taxi-hailing, self-driven vehicle rentals, and more. It offers features like real-time tracking, variant payments, insured rides, ride-based rewards, and more. Also, it offers industry-specific ride-hailing and concierge services for healthcare, business travel, higher education, and more. Their mobile app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Key facts about Lyft

Founded Year: 2007
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $5.02B
Employee Count: 4,419 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: HTIF, Darwin Ventures and 160 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series I, Aug 06, 2018
Highlight: Public

4. Recursion

Developer of AI-enabled drug discovery and development platform. It builds biological and chemical datasets for drug discovery and development. The company generates datasets through automated high-throughput labs. It offers an LLM agent for drug discovery.

Key facts about Recursion

Founded Year: 2013
Location: United States
Annual Revenue: $39.8M as on Dec 31, 2022
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $452M
Employee Count: 515 as on Jan 31, 2024
Investors: HTIF, Casdin Capital and 46 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 12, 2023, $50M
Highlight: Public

5. SpaceX

Provider of reusable space launch vehicles for large payloads. It provides users with a platform that designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft and offer a range of services including satellite internet systems and missions to Mars. It also provides users with a trunk attached to the spacecraft, a parachute system, multiple engines, and oxygen-based propellants.

Key facts about SpaceX

Founded Year: 2002
Location: Hawthorne (United States)
Valuation: $350B as on Dec 12, 2024
Stage: Series J
Total Funding till date: $11.9B
Employee Count: 13,612 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: Bank of America, Darwin Ventures and 222 Others
Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Oct 06, 2023
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Future Communities has invested in 23 companies over the last 4 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 3 years. In 2024, it made 1 investment, while as of May 2025, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Sparxell and most recent follow-on round was in Akido Labs.

Here are Future Communities' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2025 (YTD)	0	1	1
2024	1	0	1
2023	0	0	0
2022	1	0	1
2021	2	0	2

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Future Communities has made 2 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.22M and 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $8.6M.

Here are Future Communities' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	2
Series A	2

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Future Communities has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the HealthTech, High Tech, Internet of Things - Industry Applications, Chemicals and Materials Tech and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 23 Tech companies, 20 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 12 Software companies and at least 8 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Future Communities' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
HealthTech	3
High Tech	3
Internet of Things - Industry Applications	2
Chemicals and Materials Tech	1
Consumer	1
Others	3

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Future Communities has made most investments in United States (3), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 1 investment.

Here are Future Communities' investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United States	3
United Kingdom	1

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Future Communities has made 1 investments in 2025 so far - Akido Labs.

Here are the most recent investments by Future Communities:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
May 15, 2025	Akido Labs	United States	Series B	$60M	Oak HC/FT [+5]
Apr 02, 2024	Sparxell	United Kingdom	Seed	$3.2M	Circular Innovation Fund [+7]
Jun 29, 2022	Strive	United States	Series A	$6M	seedToB [+9]
Dec 16, 2021	Akido Labs	United States	Series A	$11.2M	Y Combinator [+10]
Jun 16, 2021	OxiWear	United States	Seed	$1.25M	Center for Innovative Technology [+9]

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Future Communities has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - FBN. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is FBN which became a unicorn in 2021, 3 years before Future Communities first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Future Communities' portfolio:

Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
72	FBN	Provider of farmers networking platform	2014	FinTech [+2]	San Carlos	Series G	oti{ze{

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4 of Future Communities' portfolio companies have become public. Recursion got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Apr 2021 at marketcap of $2.92B and Coupang got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at marketcap of $102B.

Here are Future Communities' portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Recursion	Apr 16, 2021	-	-	-
Coupang	Mar 11, 2021	-	-	-
Palantir	Oct 02, 2020	-	-	-
Lyft	Mar 29, 2019	-	-	-

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4 companies from Future Communities' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Arthena in Mar 2023 by Masterworks.

Here are Future Communities' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Arthena	Mar 17, 2023	-	-	-
Counsyl	May 28, 2018	-	-	-
Valor Water Analytics	Feb 28, 2018	-	-	-
Final	Jan 31, 2018	-	-	-

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Future Communities has a team of 7 members including 1 Partner and 1 Venture Partner located in United States and New Zealand. Future Communities' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of all team members in Future Communities:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Rohit Gupta	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Ravi Kurani	Venture Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Andrew Poksay	Advisor	New Zealand	-	1 Email
Neil Daswani	Advisor	San Jose	-	-
Matt Rappaport	Advisor	Berkeley	-	-
Rory Scerri-Marion	Advisor	San Francisco	-	-
Sanjit Mahanti	Advisor	Los Angeles	-	-

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Over the past 4 years, 45 investors have co-invested in Future Communities's portfolio companies.

Invested before Future Communities: Great Oaks Venture Capital, Healthy Ventures and 2 others have invested in rounds before Future Communities. There are 1 company where Great Oaks Venture Capital has invested before Future Communities and 1 company where Healthy Ventures has invested before Future Communities.
Top Co-investors of Future Communities: 31 investors entered a company along with Future Communities. These include investors like Gaingels (2 companies).
Invested after Future Communities: A total of 10 investors have invested in Future Communities's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Jeff Dean (1 company), Gokul Rajaram (1 company) and Aaron Frank (1 company).