Napoleon Ta

Napoleon Ta is a Partner at Founders Fund based in San Francisco, California, where he focuses on growth-stage investments across the artificial intelligence and insurance sectors. Prior to his venture capital career, he worked as a professional poker player and earned an MBA from Stanford University. Ta played a central role in developing the firm's cryptocurrency strategy, which included executing early investments in Bitcoin and leading funding rounds for digital asset companies like Tagomi ($16 million) and Blockfolio ($3 million). Serving as a fund director alongside Peter Thiel, he currently holds board seats at Cognition, Persona, and Rippling, having directed significant capital into the latter, including $150 million in 2020 and $250 million in 2021. His current focus remains on leveraging pattern recognition to identify and scale high-growth technology companies from pre-seed through Series B stages.