Thiel Capital

ABOUT THIEL CAPITAL

• Thiel Capital is Peter Thiel’s core investment platform, serving as a strategic and operational hub for high-impact ventures. 

• With a select, bold investment approach and ties to major VC brands, the fund provides both capital and direction to frontier startups willing to challenge the status quo.

• Thiel Capital predominantly invests in sectors such as biotechnology, hardware and manufacturing, medical devices and hospital services, healthcare and wellness, and pharmaceutical and medicine.

• The firm positions itself within the venture capitalist landscape as a nurturing partner poised to guide and propel entrepreneurs and their startups to achieve monumental success in their respective fields. 

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

• Founders Fund. 

Co-founded by Peter Thiel in 2005, along with Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, and Sean Parker. Focuses on venture capital across early and growth-stage companies in tech, AI, aerospace, energy, and defense.

• Mithril Capital Management. 

Founded in 2012 by Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan. Focuses growth-stage investments in “underfunded” sectors like industrial tech, biotech, and infrastructure.

• Valar Ventures. 

Founded in 2010 by Peter Thiel, Andrew McCormack, and James Fitzgerald. Focuses on global fintech, consumer internet, and SaaS — especially outside Silicon Valley.

• Palantir Technologies. 

Palantir exemplifies Thiel’s investment philosophy: privacy, national security, and computational power.

• The Thiel Foundation. 

Supports science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future. The Foundation focuses on three ventures: Imitatio, Breakout Labs, and The Thiel Fellowship.

• Thiel Fellowship. 

Also under the Thiel Foundation, this fellowship offers $100,000 to young people under age 23 to drop out of college and build a startup.