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Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund formed in 2005 and based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023. [ 1 ] Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies ( SpaceX ) and Palantir Technologies , and an early investor in Facebook .
RSA Security LLC, [5] formerly RSA Security, Inc. and trade name RSA, is an American computer and network security company with a focus on encryption and decryption standards. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest , Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman , after whom the RSA public key cryptography algorithm was also named. [ 6 ]
Rivest was a founder of RSA Data Security (now merged with Security Dynamics to form RSA Security), Verisign, and of Peppercoin. His former doctoral students include Avrim Blum , Benny Chor , Sally Goldman , Burt Kaliski , Anna Lysyanskaya , Ron Pinter , Robert Schapire , Alan Sherman , [ 1 ] and Mona Singh .
Founders Fund has garnered a lot of money from investors; it has also returned quite a bit of capital. Yesterday, the 17-year-old outfit took the wraps off more than $5 billion in fresh capital ...
Founders Fund, known for its early bets in companies such as SpaceX and Meta, now has over $12 billion in assets under management. It hired Joey Krug as partner in April 2023 to focus on crypto ...
Founders Fund and General Catalyst led the round, and were joined by Pear VC and others. After Hour recently raised its $4.5 million seed round, Fortune can exclusively report. Founders Fund and ...
Solana met Peter Thiel in 2009 while volunteering for The Seasteading Institute and eventually relocated to San Francisco to work at Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund as its chief marketing officer. [8] [10] In 2020, he started a podcast, Problematic, and shortly thereafter an email newsletter on Substack, Pirate Wires. [8]
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.