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Founders Fund, Peter Thiel’s venture firm, is raising a new $3 billion fund...
According to a Wall Street Journal report from Rob Copeland and Katie Roof on Monday, Peter Thiel's venture firm Founders Fund is raising nearly $3 billion in new funding.A whopping $1.5 billion will...
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LA startup Modern Animal wants to be the One Medical for pets, and Peter...
Modern Animal, a veterinary clinic startup out of Los Angeles, announced $13.5 million in seed funding on Thursday.The round was led by Founders Fund in its first foray into the red-hot petcare...
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A Silicon Valley VC is handing out 'Free Hong Kong' shirts at Golden State...
Cyan Banister, partner at Peter Thiel's venture fund Founders Fund, is helping organize a mass protest in solidarity with protesters in Hong Kong at Golden State Warriors games in San Francisco.The...
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This autonomous trucking startup out of MIT wants computers to think like...
iSee, an autonomous driving startup for trucks, announced $15 million in Series A funding from Founders Fund on Monday.Unlike other autonomous driving and logistics startups, iSee uses proprietary deep...
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The 'PayPal Mafia' formed in the early 2000s, and includes everyone from Elon...
Since working at PayPal in the early 2000s, these 23 entrepreneurs have all gone on to impact Silicon Valley and the startup world by founding companies and backing new ventures.Known for their...
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A VC tweeted a photo of himself wearing a MAGA hat, and now he's being called...
A principal at Founders Fund is getting dogpiled on Twitter for sharing a photo of himself wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.Delian Asparouhov said in a tweet: "There are degrees to which...
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Lady Gaga's new boyfriend is a tech CEO who went to Harvard with Mark...
Lady Gaga's new boyfriend, Michael Polansky, is a tech CEO who works for Napster cofounder and former Facebook President Sean Parker.Polansky attended Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg, and...
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Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel cashes in 80% of his remaining stock in...
Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel offloaded $11.3 million worth of the social media giant's stock on February 6, according to regulatory filings.The billionaire sold 53,602 shares, trimming his stake...
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Meet the 37-year old ex-banker who rose to become the operations boss at...
Lauren Gross is the chief operating officer at Founders Fund, where she is responsible for raising the billion-dollar funds that the VC firm then uses to invests in startups.She landed the job after...
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The incredible life and career of Sean Parker, who got his start as a teenage...
Sean Parker got his start as a teenage hacker before cofounding the file-sharing service Napster in 1999.Parker later joined Facebook in the company's early days, becoming the founding president of the...
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The woman who has raised billions for Peter Thiel's investment funds over the...
Founders Fund has just closed on $3 billion across a pair of new funds, thanks to its chief operating officer.Lauren Gross, who joined the firm in 2010, is responsible for raising the billions of...
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Silicon Valley startups are being forced to cut costs or die in the worst...
According to PitchBook data, a handful of top-tier Silicon Valley venture-capital firms have startups that are bearing the brunt of the current financial crisis.Many startups are experiencing the...
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A top early-stage VC thinks the coming economic crisis could...
In a Talkshow broadcast on April 22, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois discussed his predictions for the startup ecosystem with Haystack VC founder and general partner Semil Shah.Both are...
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One top-tier VC who left his job in the dot-com crash thinks it is "highly...
In a Talkshow broadcast with Haystack VC founder Semil Shah, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois shared his predictions for the ongoing economic crunch resulting from coronavirus-induced...
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Lower valuations and a long wait for funding: Two top early-stage VCs dish on...
Haystack VC founder Semil Shah and Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois both specialize in early-stage investing, although Shah typically writes checks earlier than Rabois.In a Talkshow...
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Silicon Valley VCs have a new obsession that perfectly captures the grave...
As the coronavirus-led economic shutdown drags on, many investors have started counseling startups to have more than a years' worth of "runway" to avoid having to raise funding on poor terms.But VCs...
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A group of VCs warn that funding for defense startups will dry up unless...
Defense startups are in a precarious position as the US government leans toward cutting spending on emerging technologies amid the coronavirus-driven downturn, according to Founders Fund's Trae...
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Silicon Valley VCs opened the floodgates to a gusher of billion-dollar...
Since March, Business Insider has interviewed dozens of venture investors about the long-term impacts of an economic crisis on the startup and venture ecosystem.While many were split on the finer...
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DoNotPay, the surging startup that helps you fight parking tickets and break...
DoNotPay, a startup that uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to fight small claims like parking tickets, just raised $12 million in Series A funding with an $80 million valuation.The round was...
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Kat Schneider quit her VC gig while pregnant so she could launch a vitamin...
On Tuesday, female-focused vitamin startup Ritual announced that it was launching a men's daily multivitamin in its latest attempt to upend the $123 billion vitamins and supplements market.Founder and...
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