Peter Thiel

Angel Investor·Los Angeles, California, USA·N/A (personal capital via Thiel Capital family office)

Peter Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies who actively invests as an angel through his personal vehicle, Thiel Capital. He is best known for his $500,000 angel investment in Facebook in 2004, which returned over $1 billion. His personal portfolio spans roughly 97 companies, with notable early-stage bets including LinkedIn, Yelp, Twilio, and Zynga. Thiel favours contrarian founders building in areas most investors overlook, particularly defence, AI, and hard science. He operates separately from Founders Fund, the venture firm he also founded.

Focus Areas

Artificial IntelligenceDefence TechnologyFintechBiotechnologyEnterprise SoftwareAerospaceData Analytics

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DeepMind

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AI Research·Acquired

Google DeepMind is an AI research laboratory focused on building artificial general intelligence. Founded in London in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman, the company was acquired by Google in 2014 for approximately $660M. DeepMind pioneered breakthroughs including AlphaGo, the first program to defeat a world champion at Go, and AlphaFold, which solved the 50-year-old protein folding problem and has been used by over two million researchers worldwide. The lab remains headquartered in London with a large UK engineering presence and continues to push the boundaries of reinforcement learning, large language models, and scientific AI.