{"id":1006456,"date":"2026-05-02T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006456"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:03:12","slug":"peter-thiels-founders-fund-raises-6-billion-in-its-largest-ever-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/peter-thiels-founders-fund-raises-6-billion-in-its-largest-ever-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund raises $6 billion in its largest-ever haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund has raised $6 billion for a new fund to invest in later-stage companies, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the firm\u2019s largest haul ever. <\/p>\n<p>The majority of the capital \u2014 $4.5 billion \u2014 comes from limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds, according to one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private information. The remaining $1.5 billion is from senior management and employees at Founders Fund, including Thiel, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund has raised $6 billion for a new fund to invest in later-stage companies, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the firm\u2019s largest haul ever. The majority of the capital \u2014 $4.5 billion \u2014 comes from limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds, according to one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private information. The remaining $1.5 billion is from senior management and employees at Founders Fund, including Thiel, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006476,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006456\/revisions\/1006476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}