Earlier today, I pinged Founders Fund, where Parker is a partner, for comment on this story.
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Meanwhile, Peter Thiel, through his Founders Fund, put some of his money into Lore.
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Founders Fund entities sold more than 3.3 million shares in the transactions last week.
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Parker is a managing partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund, as is early Facebook investor Thiel.
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The round would be both uncharacteristically large and late for Founders Fund.
Topsy is backed by BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Scott Banister.
Thiel owns a personal stake in Facebook and also maintains voting control over the shares owned by Founders Fund.
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Other returning investors include Felicis Ventures, Band of Angels, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Founders Fund, Morgenthaler Ventures, and SV Angel.
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In February, the company completed their second series of funding, which was led by support from the Founders Fund.
The company has raised funds from three well known Silicon Valley venture capital firms: Benchmark Capital, Accel Capital and Founders Fund.
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Thiel would invest via his Founders Fund, of which former Facebook President and Spotify backer Sean Parker is also a partner.
Airbnb and Founders Fund did not immediately return requests for comment.
He's also hunting new startups as general partner at venture firm Founders Fund and reuniting with Napster's Shawn Fanning to create Airtime, a live video site.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, who was supposed to speak on the first session, has been replaced by Founders Fund managing partner and Forbes cover boy Sean Parker.
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel was the first investor in Facebook and cofounded PayPal, then went on to start venture capital firm Founders Fund and hedge fund Clarium Capital.
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Founders Fund backed these visionaries and kept them in charge of their own companies, protecting them from the meddling of other venture capitalists, who were prone to replacing them with plodding executives.
The funding (led by existing investor Founders Fund, and Highland Capital Partners) will serve to scale manufacturing as the company prepares for the retail launch of the Leap Motion controller in the coming quarter.
Sean Parker, Partner, Founders Fund, was incredibly personable.
Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.
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The Samwer brothers run the European Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that specializes in buying or helping to develop startups that are effectively clones of successful Silicon Valley company like eBay or Airbnb, and launching them in Europe.
Tracy Stouffer has been picking overseas stocks for the Dreyfus Founders Passport Fund for five years.
The practice is becoming more and more prevalent among high-stress jobs, with everyone from hedge fund founders, Facebook employees, and Russell Simmons following suit.
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The fraud he masterminded was remarkable for its scale, longevity and the sophistication of its victims: hedge-fund founders, Swiss banks and movie moguls, as well as charities and small investors, some of whom put in their life savings.
Mellon, which owns Dreyfus and Founders, two mutual-fund firms, and several businesses more closely linked to money management than to commercial banking, has been seeking a partner for several years.
As a co-founder of Swellr, I diligently worked with my co-founders to find a new way to fund more educational resources into local classrooms.
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are using company money to fund another X-Prize, to create a private race to the moon.
David Freschman, founder of the ARC Angel Fund, says angels are now more likely to ask founders and entrepreneurs to provide them with prototypes of fledgling products, beta-tested websites and extensive market research.
One of the schools founders explained to me that, whenever possible, students are introduced to the donors who fund their enrollment.
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In response to this, the Amber Trail Greenway was set up in 1996 by Krystyna Wolniakowski, one of the founders of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe, and Bill Moody from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote a research paper at Stanford in 1998 adamantly opposing the use of advertisements to fund search engines.
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