Trae Stephens is a Partner at Founders Fund, based in San Francisco, California. He invests across Seed to late-stage rounds (Seed, Series A–E, G, and venture rounds) in sectors including government tech, defense tech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, robotics, logistics, industrial tech, and mobile mesh networking, primarily in the United States and Western US (including the San Francisco Bay Area and West Coast). Founders Fund raised $2.5 billion in June 2025. He has invested in companies such as Expanse, Substrate, Dirac, Eight Sleep, Armada, Varda, Gecko Robotics, Nominal, Anduril Industries, Stord, Campus, Flexport, and goTenna. Previously, he worked as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies; Lead Data Analyst, International Data at LexisNexis Special Services; Adjunct Professor and Assistant to the Chief of Staff at Georgetown University; and held internships with the Embassy of Afghanistan and the Office of Congressman Rob Portman. He studied at Georgetown University.
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