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Peter Thiel

Angel investor · Founded 2004 · Active in 2026

Peter Thiel is an angel investor based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2004. The page below shows 46 Power Law outcomes from Peter Thiel's portfolio — 39 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA · Germany · Canada. Peter Thiel ranks #81 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

46 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #81 · Global · 46 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 26% 5y
39
Decacorns ↑ 71% 5y
12
Thoroughbreds ↑ 43% 5y
36
01 · Exits

Peter Thiel’s biggest exits.

Peter Thiel portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2012
Entered SeedNow $1.6T
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $26.2B
acquisition · 2006
Entered Series B+Now $24.5B
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $18.1B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series ANow $12.7B
IPO · 2007
Now $6.6B
$5.2B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series A
$4.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.7B
$4.4B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $1.4B
$4.0B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $298M
$326M IPO · 2022
Entered Series ANow $3.5B
$3.5B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$3.4B IPO · 2020
Now $392M
$2.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$2.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.6B
$556M IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$1.0B IPO · 2021
Now $251M
02 · Estimated holdings

Peter Thiel’s selected top holdings.

An estimate of Peter Thiel’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Peter Thiel is a named shareholder, worth about $418M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Quantum SystemsSecurity · Unicorn 9.5% $3.3B $314M
  2. 2 ChapterFintech · Unicorn 3.5% $3.0B $105M

Estimated value = Peter Thiel’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Peter Thiel also appears inside investor groups in Addepar, Mercor, N26, Quora, Stripe, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 46 Peter Thiel Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA36
  2. Germany6
  3. Canada2
  4. New Zealand1
  5. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech18
  2. Biotech & Life Sciences5
  3. AI4
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces4
  5. Cybersecurity4
  6. Other3
  7. Edtech2
  8. Other B2B Software2
  9. Health Tech & Medtech1
  10. Transportation1
  11. Food1
  12. Space1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+24
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed6
04 · Portfolio market map

Peter Thiel's 46 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
46 of 46 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Peter Thiel stack up?

Peter Thiel in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Peter Thiel's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

147 founders across the 46 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States71
Germany12
Austria6
India6
Canada5
Netherlands4
South Africa4
Slovakia3
Vietnam3
Hong Kong2
+9 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University22
Harvard University13
University of Pennsylvania7
University of Toronto4
University of St.Gallen4
Berkeley3
Carnegie Mellon University3
Yale University3
Cornell University3
New York University3
+42 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google12
Palantir9
Meta7
PayPal5
Microsoft4
Enova International3
Tesla2
Amazon2
Topguest2
SpaceX | xAI2
+32 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Peter Thiel.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Peter Thiel

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Peter Thiel on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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