Bezos Expeditions is an American
investment firm
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based in
Mercer Island, Washington.
It serves as a
family office
A family office is a privately held company that handles investment management and wealth management for a wealthy family, generally one with at least $50–100 million in investable assets, with the goal being to effectively grow and transfer ...
for
Amazon.com founder
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and clou ...
by managing his personal investments. The firm invests both in early and late stage ventures of companies in different sectors.
Background
Bezos Expeditions was founded in 2005 by Jeff Bezos as an investment vehicle to manage his personal investments.
The firm has a dedicated team responsible for handling all processes related to investments. The firm has made numerous high-profile investments such as
Twitter
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,
Airbnb
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,
Uber
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,
Perplexity AI,
Stack Overflow
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,
General Assembly,
Workday and ''
Business Insider
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''.
Aside from for-profit ventures, the firm also supports funding philanthropic efforts. Examples include an Innovation center at the
Seattle Museum of History and Industry and the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics at
Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
In 2013, Bezos Expeditions funded the recovery of two
Saturn V
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first-stage
Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. They were positively identified as belonging to the
Apollo 11
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mission's
S-1C stage from July 1969.
The engines are on display at the
Seattle Museum of Flight.
Bezos Expeditions has funded the
Clock of the Long Now also called the 10,000-year clock.
It was funded with $42 million, and is on land which Bezos owns in Texas.
Notable investments
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Airbnb
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*
Basecamp
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*
Blue Origin
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* ''
Business Insider
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''
*
Clock of the Long Now
*
Convoy
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*
Domo
*
D-Wave Systems
*
Fundbox
*
General Assembly
*
General Fusion
*
Glassybaby
*
GRAIL
*
Juno Therapeutics
*
MakerBot
*
Nextdoor
*
NotCo[
* ]Overtime
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*by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society) ...
[
* Pioneer Square Labs]
* Rescale
* Sonder Corp.
* Stack Overflow
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* Synchron[
* '']The Washington Post
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''
* Twitter
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* Uber
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* Unity Biotechnology
* Vicarious
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* Vicariousness, experiencing through another person
* Vicarious learning, observational learning
In law
* Vicarious liability, a term in common law
* Vicarious liability (criminal), a term in criminal law
Religion
* Subst ...
*Wildtype
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* Workday
* Zocdoc
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References
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Companies based in King County, Washington
Financial services companies established in 2005
Investment management companies of the United States
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Jeff Bezos
Family offices