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Foundation Medicine
Foundation Medicine is a cancer clinical-genomics company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2010 by Broad Institute and Harvard researchers, known for FoundationOne CDx and wholly owned by Roche since 2018.
Foundations of Economic Analysis
Foundations of Economic Analysis is a 1947 treatise by Paul Samuelson, published by Harvard University Press, that recast economic theory as constrained maximization and served for decades as a core graduate microeconomics textbook.
Founderful
Founderful, formerly Wingman Ventures, is a Zurich-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that invests exclusively in Swiss startups, closing a $140 million Fund II in November 2024.
Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, known for backing SpaceX, Palantir, and Airbnb.
Founders Future
Founders Future is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Marc Menasé, investing in early-stage and growth technology companies across Europe, with about $400 million under management.
Founders Table Restaurant Group (parent of Chop't)
Founders Table Restaurant Group, formerly Chop't Holdings, LLC, is a New York restaurant company that owns the Chop't salad chain and Dos Toros Taqueria, launched in January 2020.
Founders4Schools
Founders4Schools (F4S) is a London-based British education charity, registered in 2015 by entrepreneur Sherry Coutu, whose platform connects schools with volunteer business professionals for career encounters.
Foundry Group
Foundry Group was a Boulder, Colorado early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006, investing in over 200 companies including Fitbit and Zynga before winding down in 2024.
Foundry Venture Capital
Foundry Venture Capital is the SEC fund-filing name of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm founded in 2007 and shut down in 2024.
Fountain Life, LLC
Fountain Life, LLC is an Orlando, Florida company selling membership-based longevity diagnostics, founded in 2020 by physician William Kapp with Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins.
Four Asian Tigers
The Four Asian Tigers, also known as the Four Dragons, are Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, four economies with exceptionally rapid, export-led industrialization from the 1960s.
Four Cs of credit
The Four Cs of credit are the categories a lender evaluates when deciding whether to extend credit: character, capacity, capital, and a fourth C that is either collateral or conditions.
Four Rivers Partners
Four Rivers Partners, also known as Four Rivers Group, is a San Francisco-based technology venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Farouk Ladha, managing seed, expansion-stage, and secondary funds.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a Toronto-based luxury hospitality company founded by Isadore Sharp that manages 135 hotels and resorts in 47 countries without owning them.
Four-Year Plan (Poland)
The Four-Year Plan (Czteroletni Plan Inwestycyjny) was a Polish state investment program running from 1936 to 1940, prepared by Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski to lift Poland out of the Great Depression.
Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶智能)
Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶智能) is a Shanghai robotics company founded in 2015 by Gu Jie and Xu Zhenhua, known for rehabilitation robots and the GR series of humanoid robots.
FourKites
FourKites is a Chicago-based supply chain visibility company, founded in 2014 by Mathew Elenjickal, that tracks shipments across all transport modes and predicts arrival times, raising a $100 million Series D in 2021.
Fourpence (British coin)
The fourpence, historically called the groat, was an English and British silver coin worth four pence, established by Edward III in 1351 and struck for circulation until 1855.
Fourth Edge LLC
Fourth Edge LLC is a Delaware limited liability company formed in 2025 and headquartered in New York, classified under health care, which raised $119.7 million in private placements.
Fourthline
Fourthline is an Amsterdam-based regtech company providing AI-driven identity verification, KYC, and AML compliance to banks and fintechs, co-founded by Krik Gunning and Chris van Straeten.
Fovea Investment Holdings, LLC
Fovea Investment Holdings, LLC is a Delaware investment holding company formed in 2024, tied to Cencora, which reported selling $800 million of a $1.24 billion equity offering in 2025.
Foxglove Technologies Inc.
Foxglove Technologies Inc. is a San Francisco software company founded in 2021 that builds visualization and data tools for robotics and physical AI, and created the open-source MCAP log format.
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Foxwoods Resort Casino, opened 1992 in Mashantucket, Connecticut, is a tribal casino resort owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, grown from a 1986 bingo hall into one of North America's largest gaming resorts.
Fpg Ad Astra
Fpg Ad Astra is a series of Chicago, Illinois–based private investment funds managed by First Principles Group Management, sold privately to accredited investors and qualified purchasers.
FPL Technologies
FPL Technologies is a Pune-based Indian consumer fintech founded in 2019 that operates the OneScore credit-score app and issues the OneCard credit card with partner banks.
Fractional-reserve banking
Fractional-reserve banking is the system in which banks hold only a fraction of deposits as reserves and lend the rest, creating most money in circulation.
Fraedom
Fraedom was a London-headquartered software-as-a-service company providing expense, payments, and transaction management solutions for financial institutions, launched in 1999, acquired by Visa in 2018, and integrated into Visa by 2022.
Framework Ventures
Framework Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson, an early investor in decentralized finance with $1.28 billion under management.
Franc
The franc is a currency name from a 1360 French gold coin, now the official currency of 25 states, mostly in Africa and the Pacific.
France Relance
France Relance was the French government's €100 billion recovery plan of September 2020, supporting jobs and growth after Covid-19 through ecological, industrial, and social investment.