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• Internet vampire Peter Thiel aims to save the world with magic mushrooms

  Peter Thiel gets a bad rap. I mean, aside from destroying Gawker for saying mean things, funding a startup that makes investing ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Peter Thiel says the Dublin Web Summit isn't representative of 'slacker' Europe

  Venture capitalist Peter Thiel told the Web Summit audience that the 20,000 strong tech gathering is not representative of ...

  • Mic Wright

• 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