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Peter Thiel is Founder at The Thiel Foundation, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Peter Thiel co-founded The Thiel Foundation and has also been involved with Lakestar, General Catalyst, Breakout Labs, PayPal, Founders Fund, Stanford Law School, Clarium Capital Management.
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who serves as the Chairman of Palantir Technologies and Founding Managing Partner at Founders Fund in San Francisco, California. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and Palantir Technologies in 2003, while also operating as a conservative political activist. In 2004, he became the first outside investor in Facebook, acquiring a 10.2 percent stake for $500,000, before launching the venture capital firm Founders Fund in 2005. His broader portfolio includes early backing for technology startups such as Stripe, PsiQuantum, Rigetti Computing, and DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014. As a Stanford Law School graduate and prior founder of the Clarium Capital hedge fund, Thiel focuses on big data analysis and global macro investing, reaching an estimated net worth of $27.5 billion as of December 2025.