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Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment

Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups).

Peter Thiel leads $6M funding round for TransferWise

The peer-to-peer online currency exchange, which seeks to use the Internet to make it easier to transfer funds among currencies, has transferred more than $195 million since its founding in 2011.

PayPal co-founder Thiel invests in London start-up TransferWise

LONDON (Reuters) - London-based start-up TransferWise, a peer-to-peer international money transfer business, has secured an investment from Valar Ventures, the venture fund set up by PayPal co-founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel.

P2P Currency Exchange TransferWise Raises $6M Led By Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, With Participation From SV Angel, Others

Here's some encouraging news for the European startup scene, and London in particular.

TransferWise, the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services, has announced that it's closed a $6 million series A round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventur

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Why Do Peter Thiel And Sen. Jay Rockefeller Think Pop Culture Doesn"t Show STEM Enough Love?

Last week found tech titan Peter Thiel complaining about the depiction of technology in popular culture, arguing that movies with the message that technology is going to kill you, were slowing down interest in tech jobs, the tech industry, and the skills necessary

Peter Thiel Just Paid 20 Kids $100k to Not Go to College

Techno-libertarian VC king Peter Thiel just promised $2,000,000 to kids in love with software. For scholarships? Nah they get they ditch their education and form startups instead.

Peter Thiel funds next round of under-20 entrepreneurs

The latest group of "20 Under 20" Thiel Fellows includes a junior at Harvard who's leaving to work on education software. Other projects: a desktop fabricator for electronics and a telepresence device.

Facebook"s Peter Thiel Says That Hollywood Is Driving People Away From The Tech Industry

In an interesting nod to Hollywood’s influence, tech titan Peter Thiel has suggested that his industry is being hurt hurt by its portrayal in Hollywood as a source of advancements with post-apocalyptic consequences: Thiel, who made billions as a co-founder of PayPal and as an early investor in