Peter Thiel is best known to many investors as the co-founder of PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR). Here's a look at five things investors may be less familiar ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire philanthropist and venture capitalist, has carved out a niche as “perhaps America’s leading public intellectual,” according to a profile in Fortune (September 22). As Mr.

Today, The Thiel Foundation has officially unveiled its 2026 class of Thiel Fellows, rewarding an ambitious and bright class of young people ready to disrupt and redesign industries across the United ...

The latest news and top stories on Peter Thiel, a prominent American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Known ...

After 25 years of charitable giving, Melinda French Gates has cemented her reputation as a philanthropist, but she said some of her fellow billionaires aren’t worthy of that title, despite what they ...

Digital health is on the brain of some emerging entrepreneurs this year. Last week the Thiel Foundation announced its latest winners of its entrepreneurial technology fellowship, and among them were ...

Boston-based Neumitra, which has developed a wearable that continuously measures the autonomic nervous system to track stress levels, has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the Thiel ...

Design software maker Figma will debut with shares indicated to open at more than triple their initial public offering (IPO) price, with the deal oversubscribed. Figma CEO Dylan Field co-founded the ...

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