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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 ...
Jim Chanos, best-known for his bets against energy trader Enron many months before the company's December 2001 bankruptcy amid an accounting scandal, closed his hedge fund, saying its business ...
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 .
Last year, the FBI charged Citron Research founder Andrew Left with securities fraud (he pleaded not guilty). Famed Enron short-seller Jim Chanos closed his fund in 2023. Famed Enron short-seller ...
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.
Female Founders Fund has returned its first fund after doing a partial secondary sale in women’s health-focused Maven.
In April 2024, Ramp was valued at $7.65 billion, [5] down from a high of $8.1 billion. Investors in the company include Thrive Capital , Goldman Sachs , Founders Fund , Khosla Ventures , Redpoint Ventures , 137 Ventures, BoxGroup , D1 Capital Partners , and Contrary , among others.