A look at Trump VP pick JD Vance's tech ties, like working at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital and investing in Rumble; Vance advocated for repealing Section 230
Vance has long had connections to Silicon Valley through his former life as a venture capitalist, including to long-time Donald Trump supporter and investor Peter Thiel.
Flex Logix, which designs AI chips for edge enterprise applications, including medical imaging equipment, raises $55M Series D led by Mithril Capital
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NUVIA, which makes energy-efficient chips for data centers and enterprises, raises $240M Series B led by Mithril Capital
Climate change is on everyone's minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane season that is bearing …
Sources: federal investigators, including the FBI, are probing the conduct and practices of Mithril Capital, the VC firm co-founded by Peter Thiel
Mithril Capital raised over $1 billion on the name of Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's biggest celebrities. Now federal investigators are looking under the hood. Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @voxdotcom ...
India-based Glance, which shows media content in local languages on lock screens of Android smartphones, raises $45M from Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital
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Behind the scenes at Mithril Capital, Peter Thiel's other fund, primarily run by Ajay Royan, which sources describe as an investment firm in disarray
A dozen former employees, investors in the fund, and other people close to the matter describe an investment firm in disarray.
App marketplace maker AppDirect raises $50 million from Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital
Summary:The San Francisco-based startup makes a white-label app marketplace that allows businesses to sell software-as-a-service applications to other businesses. — AppDirect has closed …