Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is named in 53 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 2003 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance BlackSky Technology · Air Force Research Laboratory · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-24 | Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-14 | U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform Anduril Industries · U.S. Army · Donald Trump Jr. · Peter Thiel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | General Matter Wins $900M DOE Contract for HALEU Uranium Enrichment at Paducah General Matter · Department of Energy · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-12 | Thiel-Backed Quantum Systems Wins $246M German Army Contract for 520 Falke Surveillance Drones Quantum Systems · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · German Bundeswehr · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-04 | Axon acquires Carbyne for $625 million, consolidating Israeli 911 surveillance tech with US police body camera giant Axon · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Peter Thiel · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-31 | Thiel-Backed Stark Defence Fails All Four Strikes in UK and German Military Trials Stark Defence · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · In-Q-Tel · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | OCC Conditionally Approves Erebor Bank Charter in Record Four Months Palmer Luckey · Joe Lonsdale · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47) Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-17 | Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $260M Round for Hadrian Defense Manufacturing Startup Hadrian Automation · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Lux Capital · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Raises $2.5 Billion at $30.5 Billion Valuation, Led by Founders Fund Anduril Industries · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Palmer Luckey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Reaches $30+ Billion Valuation, Becoming Most Valuable Private Defense Startup in History Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Thiel Foundation CEO Jim O'Neill Confirmed as HHS Deputy Secretary (52-43) Jim O'Neill · Peter Thiel · Thiel Foundation · Thiel Capital · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Palantir builds $30M AI surveillance system linking IRS, Social Security, and immigration data for ICE Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Peter Thiel · Sen. Ron Wyden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | 100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network Handala hacking group · Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · General Matter · Scott Nolan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25) Michael Kratsios · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Musk Recruits Engineers for Department of Government Efficiency via Targeted Online Networks Elon Musk · Anthony Jansco · Steve Davis · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget Gregory Barbaccia · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-26 | Varda Space Industries Wins $48M AFRL "Prometheus" Contract for Military Hypersonic Reentry Testing Varda Space Industries · Air Force Research Laboratory · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-03 | NGA Awards BlackSky $290M Luno A Contract for AI-Powered Global Surveillance BlackSky Technology · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress Mike Gallagher · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | J.D. Vance Named Trump's VP Pick, Completing Thiel's Political Investment J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Trump Selects Vance as VP Running Mate Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force goTenna · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's $15 Million Strategic Political Investment Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Peter Thiel Provides $15 Million to J.D. Vance's Ohio Senate Campaign J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · protect-ohio-values-pac · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Peter Thiel Receives Second Putin Meeting Invitation Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations Clearview AI · Kirenaga Partners · Peter Thiel · Naval Ravikant | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Vance Announces Ohio Senate Campaign J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rob Portman · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Peter Thiel Backs J.D. Vance's $93 Million Narya Capital Venture Fund J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · narya-capital · Marc Andreessen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Vance Returns to Ohio, Launches Narya Capital J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Eric Schmidt · Marc Andreessen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-23 | Peter Thiel Receives First Putin Meeting Invitation Through Russian Diplomat Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Peter Thiel's Early Intelligence Role: FBI Informant and Russian Diplomatic Contacts Peter Thiel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-16 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-01 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-01 | Peter Thiel Hires Vance at Mithril Capital Peter Thiel · J.D. Vance · Ajay Royan | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-21 | Peter Thiel Delivers Prime-Time RNC Speech Supporting Trump Peter Thiel · Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-01 | JD Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal JD Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | J.D. Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | Epstein and Barak invest in Carbyne surveillance tech founded by Unit 8200 chief Jeffrey Epstein · Ehud Barak · Pinchas Buchris · Peter Thiel · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Craig Uchida · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | J.D. Vance Meets Peter Thiel at Yale Law School, Beginning Political Pipeline J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Yale Law School | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-13 | Peter Thiel Publishes Anti-Democracy Essay Declaring Freedom and Democracy Incompatible Peter Thiel · Cato Institute | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-01 | Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers Peter Thiel · Alex Karp · Nathan Gettings · Joe Lonsdale · +4 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Founders Fund
12× shared
J.D. Vance
12× shared
Donald Trump
11× shared
Palantir Technologies
9× shared
Palmer Luckey
7× shared
Trump Administration
7× shared
Anduril Industries
6× shared
Trae Stephens
6× shared
Alex Karp
4× shared
Ehud Barak
4× shared
Elon Musk
4× shared
Mithril Capital
4× shared
Thiel Capital
4× shared
Daniil Bisslinger
3× shared
In-Q-Tel
3× shared
Jeffrey Epstein
3× shared
Republican Party
3× shared
U.S. Senate
3× shared
Vladimir Putin
3× shared
Air Force Research Laboratory
2× shared
Ajay Royan
2× shared
Alex Dizengof
2× shared
Amir Elichai
2× shared
Andreessen Horowitz
2× shared
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