Eric Weinstein

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

TruMid Holdings LLC provides banking and financial services. The company was founded in by Michael Sobel and Ronald M. Mateo in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Banc of America Securities Asia Ltd. is a Chinese company that provides securities brokerage services. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

LikeALittle, Inc. provides social networking services. It allows its customers to interact with the people nearby anonymously flirt with that person who caught their eyes and discover if someone likes them. The company was founded by Evan Reas, Shubham Mittal and Prasanna Sankaranarayanan on October 27, 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Great Oaks Venture Capital BZ LLC (Great Oaks Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Andrew K. Boszhardt Jr. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Valar Ventures Management LLC (Valar Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by James Fitzgerlad and Andrew McCormack Peter Thiel. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Judicata, Inc. engages in the provision of software tools for lawyers. It offers software applications for legal data analysis, management and research sectors. The company was founded by Itai Gurarim, Adam Hahn and Blake Masters in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Propeller provides mobile application services. The company was founded by Clay Allsopp and Brian Rowen in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Artivest Holdings, Inc. provides digital platform for private investment managers and investors. The firm offers technology-driven investment platforms for fund managers, wealth managers, and independent advisors. It offers private equity and venture capital funds. The company was founded by James David Waldinger in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

1517 Fund (1517) is an venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Danielle Strachman and Michael Patrick Gibson. The firm is headquartered in Telluride, Colorado.

Invicta Medical, Inc. operates as a medical technology company that develops wearable device for treatment of sleep apnea and snoring. Its device detects and treats disturbed breathing through electrical stimulation. The company was founded by Steven T. Kent and Harold Kent in 2013 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA.

Crescendo Equity Partners Ltd. (Crescendo) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by Matthew Danzeisen and Lee Ki-Doo. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

iText Group NV is a Belgian software company that provides a Java and .NET PDF SDK library to create, manipulate, and edit PDF documents. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium, and has subsidiaries in Belgium. The company also offers pdfRender, an iText Core add-on that allows users to generate images from PDFs. Recently, the company has been working on integrating blockchain technology into their products to store digital signatures in a blockchain instead of in the PDF document. It was founded by Bruno Lowagie, and Gary Peter Fry has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

GWC Inc (GWC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Wen Chu and Yiqun Bo. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

LAZR, Inc. produces sensor technologies for autonomous vehicle industry. The firm is fueled by group of optimists and problem solvers. The company was founded by Austin Russell and Jason Eichenholz in 2012 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Beijing Immunochina Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. engages in the development of CAR-T technology and CAR-T cell products. The company was founded on April 14, 2015 by He Ting, Lu Xian, and Qi Fei Fei and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

SPAR Technology Corp. provides investment services. The company is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA.

ATAI Life Sciences AG operates as a holding company, which is a global biotech company builder. The company was founded by Christian Angermayer, Lars Christian Wilde, Srinivas G. Rao and Florian Brand in 2018 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Alloy Therapeutics LLC is a biotechnology ecosystem company that democratizes access to tools, technologies, services, and company creation capabilities for discovering and developing therapeutic biologics. The company's lead offering is the ATX-GX™ platform, a human therapeutic antibody discovery platform consisting of a growing suite of proprietary transgenic mice strains. Through a community of partners across academia, biotech, and the largest biopharma, Alloy is a leader in bispecific antibody discovery and engineering services, utilizing its proprietary ATX-CLC common light chain platform integrating novel transgenic mice and phage display. Founded in 2017 and privately funded by visionary investors, Alloy is headquartered in Hanover, NH, with European labs in Switzerland. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Fifth Down Capital Partners LLC (Fifth Down Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Andrew Spellman. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bridgetown 3 Holdings Ltd. is a blank check company, which engages in effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on January 4, 2021, and is headquartered in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Blackrock Microsystems, Inc. is a platform company that specializes in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology and the development of implantable solutions that improve human lives. The company is based in Salt Lake City, UT and has subsidiaries in the United States. Blackrock's precision electrode technology is at the core of many worldwide innovations in BCI, enabling dozens of early users to regain their ability to see, hear, move, and talk. Blackrock Microsystem's mission is to provide innovative tools and neurotech expertise to translate technology into novel, implantable clinical solutions that improve human lives. The company was founded in 2008 by Marcus Gerhardt and Florian Solzbacher, with Marcus Gerhardt serving as the CEO since then.

Seasteading Institute is a private company that aims to reimagine civilization by building floating cities with significant political autonomy. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded by Patri Friedman. The company believes that nearly half of the world's surface is unclaimed by any nation-state, and many coastal nations can legislate seasteads in their territorial waters.

The Thiel Foundation awards grants to groups that empower people to improve their lives, champions organizations and individuals who expose human rights abuses and authoritarianism. It programs include The Thiel Fellowship, Breakout Labs and Imitatio. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.