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Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an American venture capital fund, which is also the family office of Peter Thiel. It was formed in 2011 and is based in Los Angeles.
Thiel Capital provides "strategic and operational support" for many of Peter Thiel's initiatives and ventures. Thiel Capital has incubated several major investment firms—Founders Fund, Mithril, and Valar Ventures—as well as other business and philanthropic initiatives like the Thiel Fellowship and Breakout Labs.
The firm should not be mistaken for Thiel Capital Management, which was founded by Peter Thiel in 1996 and was the predecessor of Clarium, which had Thiel Capital as its successor.
There is also another company named Thiel Capital (operates on the internet through websites like thiel-capital.com and thiel-capitals.com), which is banned by BaFin from conducting custody business. BaFin remarks that there is no certifiable connection between this company and Clarium Capital's Peter Andreas Thiel. Dasinvestment comments that this is likely sheer coincidence.
A registration paper involving Bridgetown Holdings Limited (whose chairman is Matt Danzeisen, the spouse of Peter Thiel) sent to the SEC states that, "Thiel Capital and its predecessors have incubated and launched several investment firms now with billions of dollars under management, including Founders Fund, Mithril and Valar Ventures. Numerous other business and philanthropic ventures, including the Thiel Fellowship and Breakout Labs, have also started under the Thiel Capital umbrella."
In a 2019 questionnaire sent to the U.S. Congress, Michael Kratsios described Founders Fund, Thiel Macro, Mithril Capital, Valar Ventures, Clarium Capital, and The Thiel Foundation as "related subsidiaries" of Thiel Capital.
Jack Selby describes the firm as "the nest".
Max Moran of CounterPunch and the watchdog The Revolving Door Project calls Thiel Capital the most secretive of Thiel's funds and "an enigma": "Its website is just a logo. The only public information about it comes, again, from a LinkedIn page, declaring that it 'provides strategic and operational support for Peter's many investment initiatives and entrepreneurial endeavors.' (LinkedIn, by the way, was created by a Paypal mafioso.) Another sign that Thiel Capital isn't looking for the spotlight is the name: Thiel's better-known venture capital funds are all named after Lord of the Rings references, such as the godlike Valar, or magical metal Mithril. Thiel Capital appears, then, to be a means of overseeing and managing the other, flashier pieces of the Thiel empire."
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Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an American venture capital fund, which is also the family office of Peter Thiel. It was formed in 2011 and is based in Los Angeles.
Thiel Capital provides "strategic and operational support" for many of Peter Thiel's initiatives and ventures. Thiel Capital has incubated several major investment firms—Founders Fund, Mithril, and Valar Ventures—as well as other business and philanthropic initiatives like the Thiel Fellowship and Breakout Labs.
The firm should not be mistaken for Thiel Capital Management, which was founded by Peter Thiel in 1996 and was the predecessor of Clarium, which had Thiel Capital as its successor.
There is also another company named Thiel Capital (operates on the internet through websites like thiel-capital.com and thiel-capitals.com), which is banned by BaFin from conducting custody business. BaFin remarks that there is no certifiable connection between this company and Clarium Capital's Peter Andreas Thiel. Dasinvestment comments that this is likely sheer coincidence.
A registration paper involving Bridgetown Holdings Limited (whose chairman is Matt Danzeisen, the spouse of Peter Thiel) sent to the SEC states that, "Thiel Capital and its predecessors have incubated and launched several investment firms now with billions of dollars under management, including Founders Fund, Mithril and Valar Ventures. Numerous other business and philanthropic ventures, including the Thiel Fellowship and Breakout Labs, have also started under the Thiel Capital umbrella."
In a 2019 questionnaire sent to the U.S. Congress, Michael Kratsios described Founders Fund, Thiel Macro, Mithril Capital, Valar Ventures, Clarium Capital, and The Thiel Foundation as "related subsidiaries" of Thiel Capital.
Jack Selby describes the firm as "the nest".
Max Moran of CounterPunch and the watchdog The Revolving Door Project calls Thiel Capital the most secretive of Thiel's funds and "an enigma": "Its website is just a logo. The only public information about it comes, again, from a LinkedIn page, declaring that it 'provides strategic and operational support for Peter's many investment initiatives and entrepreneurial endeavors.' (LinkedIn, by the way, was created by a Paypal mafioso.) Another sign that Thiel Capital isn't looking for the spotlight is the name: Thiel's better-known venture capital funds are all named after Lord of the Rings references, such as the godlike Valar, or magical metal Mithril. Thiel Capital appears, then, to be a means of overseeing and managing the other, flashier pieces of the Thiel empire."