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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 48 Power Law outcomes from Peter Thiel's portfolio — 40 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences · Cybersecurity; 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.

48 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #81 · Global · 48 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 29% 5y
40
Decacorns ↑ 71% 5y
12
Thoroughbreds ↑ 36% 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
$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
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 48 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. USA39
  2. Germany6
  3. Canada2
  4. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech17
  2. Biotech & Life Sciences7
  3. Cybersecurity5
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces4
  5. AI4
  6. Other3
  7. Edtech2
  8. Other B2B Software2
  9. Food1
  10. Energy1
  11. Health Tech & Medtech1
  12. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+25
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed6
Estimated holdings

Peter Thiel’s biggest current 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 →

04 · Portfolio market map

Peter Thiel's 48 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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48 of 48 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 609 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
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.

143 founders across the 48 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 States69
Canada11
Germany7
France7
Austria6
Netherlands4
South Africa4
Slovakia3
Vietnam3
Hong Kong2
+8 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University22
Harvard University7
University of Pennsylvania7
The University of British Columbia5
Carnegie Mellon University5
University of Toronto4
University of St.Gallen4
Berkeley4
New York University4
Cornell University3
+38 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google12
Palantir9
Meta7
LinkedIn3
Microsoft3
Topguest2
Amazon2
Stripe2
Roivant Sciences1
PayPal1
+30 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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Latest news about Peter Thiel

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