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• E-commerce startup BuyReply bags $1m from Peter Thiel-backed VC firm, others

  Australian e-commerce startup BuyReply has raised $1 million in seed funding in a round led by private equity guru Adrian ...

  • Robin Wauters

• Peter Thiel-backed MetaMed thinks you should have your own on-demand medical research team

  Peter Thiel-backed MetaMed thinks you should have your own on-demand medical research team.

  • Harrison Weber

• AppCard gets $6.5 million from Eric Schmidt, Jerry Yang and Peter Thiel for its customer loyalty platform

  AppCard, a new startup from Yair Goldfinger (co-founder of instant messaging pioneer ICQ and Dotomi, and a prolific startup ...

  • Robin Wauters

• Xero nabs $49m from Peter Thiel, Matrix Capital to rival Quickbooks and help companies manage finances

  Small business accounting service, Xero, nabs $49m from Peter Thiel and Matrix Capital to take on Quickbooks

  • Ken Yeung

• Peter Thiel's nonprofit foundation opens applications for its '20 Under 20' fellowship

  Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Peter Thiel, announced today that his nonprofit foundation has started to accept ...

  • Nick Summers

• 3 months after launch, e-commerce startup ShopLocket raises $1m from Rho Canada Ventures, Peter Thiel and more

  Shoplocket has announced completion of a $1 million seed round that includes investment from Rho Canada Ventures and Peter ...

  • Josh Ong

• Australian business software firm ScriptRock raises $1.2m from 500 Startups, Peter Thiel and more

  Sydney, Australia-based enterprise software company ScriptRock has landed $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by Facebook ...

  • Robin Wauters

• Quora picks up $50 million at a $400 million valuation, round led by Peter Thiel

  Quora, the once explosively hot question and answer website has picked a massive new round of capital, and a fresh valuation ...

  • Alex Wilhelm

• Peter Thiel: Competition is good for society, bad for business

  Peter Thiel is a guest at April's PandoMonthly event, a serial investor (who famously owns part of Facebook) and well known ...

  • Jon Russell

• Peter Thiel on how to solve 40 years of stagnation in Silicon Valley

  Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal, invested in Facebook and is repeatedly on the Forbes 400 list of the world's wealthiest ...

  • Courtney Boyd Myers

• Peter Thiel's "full-on rager" ends with a 25-minute "elevator pitch"

  The NY Daily News reports that 44-year-old billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel, president of Clarium Capital, threw ...

  • Courtney Boyd Myers

• The Singularity hits mainstream, but what more have we learned?

  The Technological Singularity is a futuristic event, a moment or perhaps a series of moments in time that have yet to occur ...

  • Courtney Boyd Myers