Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist born in 1967 and based in California, with an estimated net worth of ~$23.9B. He appears in SEC EDGAR as “THIEL PETER” with a personal CIK and extensive filing activity tied to multiple public companies. Wikidata SEC EDGAR

Business & SEC Activity

SEC EDGAR links Thiel to filings involving Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Airbnb (ABNB), AbCellera Biologics (ABCL), Invivyd (IVVD), and ContextLogic (LOGC). His SEC record shows 100 total filings, including 98 insider filings; recent forms include Form 4 and Form 144 in 2024–2026. Form 4 is used to report insiders’ purchases/sales of company stock, and Form 144 is a notice of a proposed sale of restricted or control securities. SEC EDGAR

Philanthropy

ProPublica 990 data lists The Thiel Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) with $44,447,969 in total assets in tax year 2023, $8,240,688 in total revenue, $3,316,210 in total expenses, and $0 in grants paid. Two other foundations in the dataset also reported $0 grants paid in their listed tax years; across all listed foundations, total assets were $47,359,724 and total grants paid were $0. ProPublica 990

Political Activity

FEC data shows 100 contributions totaling $1,632,505 from 2025-02-25 to 2025-10-16. The top recipients were Grow the Majority ($852,200) and the NRCC ($310,100), followed by the Republican National Committee ($58,100). The party breakdown shows $723,200 to Republican recipients, $909,250 to PAC/Other, and $55 listed as unknown. FEC

In the News

Recent headlines mentioning Thiel include a Common Dreams article about billionaires’ share of federal election donations (2026-03-09) and a Times of India story about a judge blocking former employees from actions involving Palantir data (2026-03-09). Additional mentions appear in outlets including Alternet.org and Truthdig on 2026-03-09. NewsAPI