Tagged: Peter Thiel
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Facebook investor Thiel leads US$6m investment in TransferWise News
14.05.2013 A venture fund established by Peter Thiel, the first investor in Facebook and one of the leading investors in the Collison brothers’ Stripe, is leading a US$6m investment in... -
Collison Brothers’ Stripe acquires Kickoff app News
11.03.2013 Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison’s Silicon Valley start-up Stripe has made its first acquisition: collaboration and team task management app Kickoff.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Development, Design, Apps -
US clean-tech start-up LightSail Energy raises US$37.3m from investors, including Bill Gates News
06.11.2012 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel are two of the investors who have contributed to a US$37.3m funding injection into LightSail Energy, a US... -
Collison brothers’ Stripe raises a further US$20m in Series B funding News
10.07.2012 Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison’s Silicon Valley-headquartered start-up Stripe has just raised US$20m in Series B funding led by General Catalyst, along with...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Investments, Internet, Funding, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Facebook investor Peter Thiel opens up new venture investment firm News
20.06.2012 Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, and early Facebook investor, has co-founded a new private venture investment firm called Mithril Capital Management, which will be... -
Collison brothers’ start-up Stripe hurtling towards US$1bn valuation? News
04.05.2012 Five years ago the nation of Ireland woke up to the news that two Limerick teenagers had sold their technology company for US$5m. Zoom forward to today and the indications are...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps -
Sean Parker invests in political site Votizen News
24.02.2012 Napster co-creator, Facebook’s first president and Spotify investor Sean Parker is turning his investing attentions to the political sphere online. Parker has invested in... -
Collison brothers’ start-up Stripe valued at US$100m News
10.02.2012 Limerick brothers John and Patrick Collison’s Stripe venture has raised US$18m in venture capital from Sequoia Capital and other investors on top of a previous investment that... -
Weekend news roundup News
14.11.2011 Some of the top tech stories from the weekend newspapers, including Apple's courting of educators to unleash the next education revolution, Peter Thiel's interest in healthcare... -
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with a 20-year-old Irish tech millionaire News
01.06.2011 Two years ago, the entire nation was stunned when the news emerged that two Limerick teenagers – John and Patrick Collison – had sold their first technology company for US$5m....Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Funding, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Digital 21, ComputersTags: Limerick, Twitter, MIT, Foursquare, Skype, Silicon Valley, Angel Investors, eBay, Google, Venture Capital, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Collison Brothers, -
21-year-old Irish millionaire to speak at DotConf News
19.05.2011 John Collison, the 21-year-old tech entrepreneur who, with his brother Patrick, sold their company Auctomatic for US$5m three years ago when they were just 17 and 19...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business