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Franklin Venture Partners

Private investing platform
Franklin Venture Partners is the private investing platform of the Franklin Equity Group. The team is based out of Franklin Templeton’s San Mateo headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. Franklin Venture Partners invests in late-stage private companies on a trajectory to IPO.

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Airspace
Airtable
Alto
Anduril
Applied Intuition
Axoni
Benchling
Blaize
BondLink
Callsign
Canva
CelLink
Celonis
Cesium
Chain Bridge Group
Checkout
Checkr
ClearMotion
Cruise
Damon Motorcycles
Databricks
DataRobot
Discord
Essential AI
Figma
Finix
Flock Safety
Goat
Gong
Gusto
Illumio
Ironclad
Lacework
Lark
LimeBike
Long Game
Newsela
OneTrust
Optoro
Parade
Perplexity
Phononic
Pinwheel
Plaid logo
Rebellion
Redwood Materials
RoadRunner
6Sense
Saronic Technologies
Smule
Snyk
SpaceX
Spic Games
SpotOn
Step
Stord
Stripe
Strivr
Talkdesk
Tanium
Tempus
Tula
Varda
Vestwell
Visdom
Voyage
Wonolo
Workrise
xAI

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Allbirds
xavidxchange
Bill
Cloudflare
Confluent
Damon logo
Deel
Divvy
eSilicon
Figs
GitLab
HashiCorp logo
ilmakiage
Legalzoom
Marqeta
Paycor
Peloton
Proterra
RentTheRunway
Rigetti
Rivian
Samsara
ServiceTitan logo
Sumlogic
Sweetgreen
Wheels Up

Investment Team

James Cross, CFA

Managing Director
Investment Experience: 27 Years

Robert Stevenson, CFA

Managing Director
Investment Experience: 22 Years

Ryan Biggs, CFA

Managing Director
Investment Experience: 17 Years

Sara Araghi, CFA

Director
Investment Experience: 22 Years

Anthony Hardy, CFA

Director
Investment Experience: 14 Years

Richard Herbert, CFA

Head of Investor Relations
Relevant Experience: 15 years

Andrew Dignum, CFA

Associate
Investment Experience: 5 Years

EM

Emily McCarthy

Associate
Investment Experience: 2 years

DS

Dylan Serrentino-Mullins

Associate
Experience: 1 year

KA

Kat Anderson

Associate General Counsel
Legal Experience: 12 years

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