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AI-native treasury tools for startups moving fast.

AI workflows for finance teams that live in spreadsheets.

Operating system for restaurants, starting with prep and purchasing.

Forecasting tools for distributed energy teams.

Care coordination for specialty clinics.

Studio workspace for creator-led teams.

Release intelligence for lean engineering teams.

Supply planning for regional food networks.

Compliance workspace for embedded finance teams.

Inspection robots for warehouse maintenance teams.

Personal reset plans for high-output teams.

Supabase/supabase

Open-source Postgres development platform for teams building with data.

Lovable/lovable

AI app builder that turns plain-language ideas into apps and websites.

Cloud infrastructure for AI, data, and machine learning workloads.

AI analytics workspace for data teams and business partners.

GPU-accelerated enterprise data systems for large analytics workloads.

Frontend and AI cloud platform behind Next.js, v0, and AI-native apps.

Frontier AI coding agent spun out from Sourcegraph.

Founder App/founder-app

Sustainable oral care products designed to replace plastic toothpaste tubes.

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Loyal/loyal

Clinical-stage animal health company developing dog longevity drugs.

AngelList/angellist

Startup fundraising and fund operations infrastructure for founders, angel investors, and venture funds.

Onchain social and trading app for crypto-native users.

Science Corporation/science-corporation

Clinical-stage neural engineering company building BCI medical technologies.

Neuralink/neuralink

Implantable brain-computer interfaces designed to restore autonomy for people with severe neurological impairments.

Notion/notion

The AI workspace for docs, wikis, projects, databases, search, and agents.

Bite Toothpaste Bits/bite-toothpaste-bits

Plastic-free oral and personal care products built around refillable toothpaste tablets.

AirChat/airchat

Voice-first consumer social app built around audio posts and conversations.

Infrastructure for AI agents to connect with tools, learn from experience, and automate enterprise workflows.

Raycast/raycast

Productivity and command-bar software that helps developers and power users launch tools, automate workflows, and reduce context switching.

AI evaluation and observability platform for teams building and improving LLM applications.

Data infrastructure company generating, evaluating, and delivering coding datasets for frontier AI models.

AI governance and observability platform for testing, monitoring, and improving AI systems.

AI developer platform for building, integrating, and operationalizing generative AI models and workflows.

ElevenLabs/elevenlabs

AI audio and voice technology company building text-to-speech, voice generation, and conversational audio products.

Scale AI/scale-ai

AI data platform that helps machine learning teams generate high-quality training and evaluation data.

Gorgias/gorgias

Conversational AI and customer-support platform built for ecommerce brands.

Italic/italic

Consumer brand and marketplace for premium home goods and lifestyle products.

Clubhouse/clubhouse

Live social-audio app for joining and hosting voice chat rooms.

CoinList/coinlist

CEO and advisor

Pinterest/pinterest

Product lead / product team

Founder and CEO of Highlight / Math Camp

Entrepreneur in Residence

Vice President / VP Business Development

Business Operations

Senior Associate Consultant

Open-source workspace and productivity software.

Open scheduling infrastructure and calendar booking platform.

Developer tooling company building command-line interface products.

Developer education platform for building real-world programming projects.

Secrets management platform for developers and engineering teams.

Cloud runtime infrastructure for AI agents and developer workflows.

Sync engine and local-first data infrastructure for Postgres-backed apps.

Open-source secrets management platform.

Data framework for building LLM applications over private and external data.

AI company building frontier and open-weight language models.

Co-founder & CTO

Co-founder & CTO

Prior work history listed by CB Insights

Created the open-source AI code-generation project that became a precursor to Lovable.

Co-founder and CTO

First employee / early engineer

Particle-physics research work connected to the ATLAS experiment.

Graduate education

Undergraduate education

Product lead

Studied cognitive science and fine arts

Veterinary care company listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment in its seed round.

AI-native open-source embedding database company listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment.

Healthcare company focused on neurodegenerative disease care listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment.

Travel technology company for visa applications listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment.

NFT marketplace listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment in its Series A round.

Mental-health and group-support startup listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment.

Natural-capital and forest-carbon marketplace company listed as a Ben Silbermann personal investment.

Serves on the board of the nonprofit organization The How We Feel Project.

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Fintech startup offering prize-linked financial products and giveaways.

Post-purchase shipment tracking and customer engagement platform for ecommerce brands.

Savings and investment app focused on helping users invest small amounts in digital gold.

Climate infrastructure company offering carbon removal and climate project APIs.

Founder & COO

Thiel Fellow

Honoree

OpenAI/openai

AI research and deployment company building frontier models and products such as ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, Sora, and Codex.

Social news, discussion, and community platform.

Payments infrastructure platform for internet businesses.

Fusion energy company developing electricity from nuclear fusion.

Marketplace for short-term stays and travel experiences.

Online grocery delivery and retail technology platform.

Work management and collaboration software company.

Led the startup accelerator and venture platform

Venture fund co-founded with Jack Altman

Co-founded and led location-based social networking company acquired by Green Dot

Studied computer science before leaving to work on Stripe

Studied before transferring to MIT

Safe Superintelligence/safe-superintelligence

Safe Superintelligence is a research lab building one product: a safe superintelligence.

Co-founded deep-learning startup with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky; acquired by Google

On-device AI infrastructure company building optimized inference technology for phones, laptops, and other local devices.

Board member supporting Klarna’s AI and product strategy.

Palantir Technologies/palantir-technologies

Worked on large-scale implementations of Palantir products across public and private-sector customers.

Worked in product; public bios note work connected to BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth platform.

Early product experience before roles at BlackRock and Palantir.

Studied mathematics at Imperial College London.

Law degree

Ph.D.

Bachelor of Arts

Facebook/facebook

Social networking company; Thiel was the first outside investor in 2004 and served on Facebook’s board.

LinkedIn/linkedin

Professional networking platform; TechCrunch reports Thiel was an early investor in 2003.

Space technology company backed through Thiel’s personal financing and Founders Fund, according to TechCrunch.

Local business reviews platform; TechCrunch reports Thiel helped fund Yelp through personal financing and Founders Fund.

Founded the venture capital firm with a focus on ambitious technology companies.

Founded and led a global macro hedge fund after PayPal’s acquisition.

Co-founded Confinity/PayPal and served as CEO and chairman until PayPal’s acquisition by eBay.

Undergraduate degree in philosophy; founded The Stanford Review while a student.

Uber/uber

Ride-hailing and mobility platform.

Local business data platform that structured information such as restaurant menus; later acquired by GoDaddy.

Eight Sleep/eight-sleep

Sleep fitness company building temperature-regulating and sleep-tracking technology.

Restaurant technology platform helping restaurants manage digital ordering and off-premise sales.

Loyalty and retention marketing platform later renamed Merkle Loyalty Solutions.

Co-founded Venture Hacks with Naval Ravikant as a startup advice and fundraising resource that later fed into AngelList.

Bessemer Venture Partners/bessemer-venture-partners

Joined Bessemer Venture Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence to work on consumer-oriented internet companies.

Described by VentureBeat as a former consultant to Atlas Ventures before joining Bessemer Venture Partners.

AI research company building human-centered AI agents and computing tools.

Student

Software engineering intern

Software engineering intern

AI agents for everyday digital tasks and web automation.

Monitoring and observability platform for AI agents, described as “Sentry for AI agents.”

AI-powered accounting and finance platform for startups.

Developer platform for adding enterprise-ready features such as SSO, directory sync, audit logs, and authorization.

HR software platform for employee onboarding, employee data, people operations, finance, and IT workflows.

Data collaboration and catalog platform for data teams.

Product experience insights platform for user research, surveys, concept testing, and product feedback.

Data exploration and dashboarding startup focused on democratizing access to data insights.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering; named a 2021 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus by Purdue Engineering.

Defense technology company building autonomous systems and other defense products.

Virtual reality hardware and platform company acquired by Facebook.

Precision oncology company using blood tests and data to support cancer care.

Technology-driven health insurance company.

Cybersecurity company focused on zero-trust segmentation.

E-commerce marketplace platform.

Music learning technology company known for app-based music education products.

Digital lending and banking software platform.

Technology-enabled freight forwarding and logistics platform.

Electric air taxi and eVTOL aircraft company.

Biotechnology company developing cell therapies.

Real estate transaction and title software platform.

Founder and Managing Partner

Founder and Chairman

OpenGov/opengov

Co-founder

Co-founder

Founder and Chairman of the Board

AI infrastructure company providing GPU cloud and high-performance computing services for AI developers and enterprises.

Cloud-based development platform for AI agents and software engineering workflows.

Enterprise AI platform for building and customizing large language models.

AI answer engine that summarizes information from the web for search and research workflows.

AI company building agents and assistants that can understand and execute complex software tasks.

Founder

Led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot and worked on AI for autonomy

Double major in computer science and physics with a minor in math

Graduate study; published AI-based image-detection research at NeurIPS during this period

Undergraduate engineering studies

Artificial intelligence research company acquired by Google.

Artificial intelligence company focused on machine intelligence and general-purpose learning systems.

Founder

Founder

Co-founder

PhD in deep learning; advised by Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.

Graduate studies referenced in public speaker bio.

Customer marketing and reviews platform for ecommerce brands.

Platform for paid access to advice from experts and creators.

Startup listed in Asher Hunt’s public investor bio.

Startup listed in Asher Hunt’s public investor bio.

Co-founder and CEO of Overnight, a peer-to-peer travel booking and homesharing marketplace for last-minute and trusted-network stays.

Led product/design work for Learnist’s social learning platform and mobile app experiences.

Product/founding-team role at Look.io, a mobile support and engagement startup later acquired by LivePerson.

Product design and UX role at Chill.com, a social video platform.

Built a game analytics platform acquired by PlayHaven.

Joined PlayHaven after its 2013 acquisition of Staq.io.

Co-founded a domain-name search and suggestion technology company.

Rootine is a precision nutrition company using health data, at-home testing, and personalized micronutrients to help members optimize daily health.

Scout and angel investor supporting female-founded companies.

Co-founder of a mobile and web photo-sharing game company.

Co-founder & CEO

Co-founder & CEO

Draft Ventures/draft-ventures

A pre-seed and seed venture fund and venture studio backing internet technology companies.

Crypto-native chat and messaging service focused on encryption and decentralization.

Marketplace and SaaS platform for children's classes, later acquired by DaySmart.

Real-time operations platform for retail teams.

Consumer app company that raised an angel round in 2017.

Los Angeles-focused venture fund backed by founder LPs and tech executives.

Co-founder of Web3 venture studio

COO and operations leader

Investor and EIR

Founder

DeFi strategy creation and social trading platform.

Payment processing API company for businesses.

Decentralized city and creator community project.

Blockchain infrastructure for carbon credit markets.

Founder of K-12 classroom website and learning management platform acquired by Leading Capital

Health and lifestyle subscription commerce company.

Decentralized storage network organization behind protocols for storing and retrieving important information.

Online membership marketplace for healthy and sustainable groceries and household goods.

Network for decentralized application development and interoperable blockchains.

AI and data company focused on access to economic opportunity through virtual workforces.

Influencer marketing and content collaboration platform for brands.

Chief Operating Officer

Director, Business Development & Strategy after Adobe acquired Livefyre

Chief Operating Officer

Graduated magna cum laude and with distinction, according to Crunchbase profile text

SumCo/sumco

Making widgets