Peter Thiel

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Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund; Facebook's first outside investor.

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Portfolio

2 total
EtchedMercor

Co-Investors

12
Adam D'Angelo · 1 sharedAndreessen Horowitz · 1 sharedBain Capital Ventures · 1 sharedBenchmark · 1 sharedBlackstone · 1 sharedConversion Capital · 1 sharedFelicis Ventures · 1 sharedGeneral Catalyst · 1 sharedJack Dorsey · 1 sharedRobinhood Ventures · 1 sharedSoma Capital · 1 sharedTwo Sigma Ventures · 1 shared

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  1. Tradeweb Buys Trumid For $1.97B In Cash And StockTradeweb Markets agreed to buy fixed-income trading platform Trumid for about $1.97 billion -- roughly $1.89 billion in cash plus $82 million in equity -- expanding into corporate-bond trading earlier in the credit lifecycle.→
  2. Anthropic Seeks Palantir-Style Voting Control Pre-IPOAnthropic is seeking Palantir-style voting control for its seven co-founders ahead of a planned IPO, a structure that would let founders keep outsized control even as public shareholders buy in.→
  3. Anthropic Signs A $13.7B Compute Deal With Trump-Linked Rum GroupAnthropic agreed to pay Rum Group -- the Rumble-owned infrastructure company that hosts Truth Social and counts Peter Thiel and JD Vance among its early backers -- $13.7 billion over six years for GPU capacity at a Georgia data center still under construction, days after publicly calling for the industry to slow down.→
  4. Clearview AI Tests Tool To Build Police DossiersA prototype called InquiryIQ pairs Clearview's facial-recognition database with an xAI Grok model to automatically compile addresses, employers, and social accounts once a face match returns a hit.→
  5. Etched Raises $700M as Valuation Doubles to $21BEtched raised $700 million led by Jane Street at a $21 billion valuation, doubling the $10.3 billion mark it set in July after the quant firm tested the startup's inference hardware and installed a rack in its own data center.→
  6. Altman's $3.3B Net Worth Came From Thiel's Advice, Not OpenAI EquitySam Altman says investing advice from Peter Thiel helped him build a $3.3 billion net worth almost entirely outside his OpenAI equity -- founder wealth and company equity as separate tracks.→
  7. Peter Thiel's 'Antichrist' Theory Targets AI RegulatorsPeter Thiel gave his clearest public description yet of who fits his 'Antichrist' framing: a global tech and climate regulator, a striking reveal from one of Silicon Valley's most influential right-of-center investors.→
  8. Thiel Capital's Jack Selby Nabs Stakes in Hot Startups Like Etched Through Arizona ConnectionsJack Selby, a former PayPal executive and longtime managing director at Peter Thiel's family office, has been using his Phoenix-based venture firm Copper Sky Capital — and his seat on the Arizona Commerce Authority board — to secure allocations into hot AI startups like Etched, TechCrunch reported July 2. Copper Sky invested in Etched's $120 million Series A roughly two years ago partly by pledging to help the Nvidia competitor eventually move chip fabrication to Arizona's TSMC GIGAFAB, and is now raising a $300 million second fund built around the same regional-manufacturing thesis.→
  9. Nvidia Competitor Etched Hits $5B Valuation on $1B in AI Chip SalesEtched, the AI inference chip startup, confirmed a $5 billion post-money valuation on June 30 following a $500 million round led by Stripes, bringing total funding to $800 million since its 2022 founding. The company says it has already secured $1 billion in contract orders for its 'frontier inference clusters' after TSMC successfully manufactured its custom chips earlier in 2026, with backers including Jane Street, Two Sigma, Andrej Karpathy, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Stanley Druckenmiller and Peter Thiel.→

Peter Thiel FAQ

What companies has Peter Thiel invested in?

Peter Thiel's portfolio includes Etched, Mercor.

Who does Peter Thiel co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, Peter Thiel most often invests alongside Adam D'Angelo (1 shared deal), Andreessen Horowitz (1 shared deal), Bain Capital Ventures (1 shared deal), Benchmark (1 shared deal), Blackstone (1 shared deal).

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