# European Founders Fund (slim)

> European Founders Fund's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, LinkedIn Corporation, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/european-founders-fund/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/european-founders-fund/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/european-founders-fund/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Venture firm.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **LinkedIn Corporation**, $12.8M round, January 2007, valued at $26.2B, the purchase price, Acquisition by Microsoft, June 2016
  - [LinkedIn Marketing APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkedin-marketing-api.md), graded B, 62.4/100
  - Source: https://www.internetnews.com/small-business/linkedin-takes-funding-for-global-expansion/

## Where they invest

- Advertising & campaign operations, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Reid Hoffman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/reid-hoffman/), LinkedIn Corporation
- [Eric Ly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-ly/), LinkedIn Corporation

## Questions

### Which AI tools has European Founders Fund invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists LinkedIn Corporation backed by European Founders Fund.

### How are European Founders Fund's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, LinkedIn Marketing APIs (B, 62.4).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.