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    Thiel Foundation Announces 2016 Thiel Fellows

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    In turn, HelloToken has created an engine for real-time contextual

    research across millions of people.

    Pamela Valdes Esteva (Mexico City, Mexico)

    Beek

    Social

    Networking

    Pamela is co-founder and CEO of Beek, a social

    network for millennial book lovers.

    “This has been proven true–by the successes of our past fellows, by the

    new applications we get every year, and by the growing numbers of young

    people who are creating their own career paths outside of college, with

    or without a fellowship from us.”

    Brian Truong (Boston, MA)

    HelloToken

    Enterprise

    Software

    Brian is CEO and co-founder of HelloToken, a company

    that enables digital publishers to earn up to 10x more for their content

    by posing simple market research questions to readers instead of serving

    ads. He is now working on Quizr, a sports betting

    application that launches in Europe in late 2016.

    Alex Rodrigues (Calgary, Alberta / Mountain View, CA)

    Varden

    Labs

    Autonomous Vehicles

    Alex is CEO of Varden

    Labs, a startup developing self-driving shuttles for private campuses. By

    connecting the fragmented world of scientific research, Kynplex aims to

    accelerate the pace of discovery.

    Jesse Leimgruber (San Francisco)

    NeoReach

    Marketing

    Technology

    Jesse founded and runs NeoReach, a startup

    developing influencer marketing technology for Fortune 1000 brands and

    their agencies. Augur is built on the Ethereum blockchain

    and allows users to forecast events and be rewarded for predicting them

    correctly.

    Samuel F. He is also the

    co-founder of Visionary VR, a venture-backed startup building software

    for creating stories using virtual reality.

    Nick Mares (San Francisco)

    Kettle & Fire

    Food

    Nick

    co-founded Kettle & Fire with his brother to bring to market the world’s

    first shelf-stable bone broth made from grass-fed, pasture-raised

    cattle. To date, Equidate

    has helped thousands of employees at private companies sell portions of

    their stock to accredited investors in the absence of an IPO or

    corporate sale.

    Grace Xiao & Raul Jordan (Cambridge, MA)

    Kynplex

    Communication

    Software

    Grace and Raul are co-founders of Kynplex, a startup

    that provides communication tools for scientific laboratories. Kisan

    enables farmers to sell their produce directly to institutional buyers

    using a smartphone, rather than going through the physical marketplace

    dominated by middlemen.

    . The fellowship provides young people with $100,000 to

    learn by doing rather than by following conventional paths like college. Beam lets viewers of live-streamed

    video game sessions get involved in the game, influencing gameplay in

    real time.

    Sohail Prasad (Plano, TX / San Francisco)

    Equidate

    Financial

    Technology

    Sohail is the founder and co-CEO of Equidate, a

    secondary marketplace for shares in private companies. For more information, see thielfoundation.org.

    Luke Sophios (San Diego)

    CourseKey

    Education

    Technology

    Luke is founder and CEO of CourseKey, a software

    company that allows teachers to leverage the devices that their students

    are already bringing to class – laptops, tablets, and smartphones – to

    instantly create a more interactive, engaging “smart classroom”.

    ABOUT THE THIEL FOUNDATION

    Joey Krug (Knoxville, IL)

    Augur

    Prediction

    Markets

    Joey is building the world’s first decentralized

    prediction market platform. Local governments are

    increasingly interested in innovation; the Lace platform helps municipal

    staff to build smarter cities.

    Aditya Agarwalla (New Delhi, India)

    Kisan Network

    Agriculture

    Marketplace

    Aditya is co-founder of Kisan Network, an online

    marketplace for the $200 billion Indian agricultural ecosystem. The system evaluates athlete movement to identify injury risk

    factors and inform smarter training.

    Lexi Smith (Boston)

    Carewell

    Health IT

    Lexi

    is co-founder of Carewell, an intelligent caregiving platform that helps

    caregivers take care of loved ones with dementia by using wearable

    devices to learn the smartest ways to provide personalized care.

    Eva Shang (Cambridge, MA)

    Legalist

    Legal

    Analytics

    Eva is co-founder of Legalist, a legal analytics and

    alert platform that helps lawyers keep track of new developments in case

    law so that they can represent their clients more effectively.

    Cosmo Scharf (Los Angeles, CA)

    The Virtual Reality

    Foundation and Visionary VR

    Virtual Reality

    Cosmo

    co-founded The Virtual Reality Foundation, a non-profit organization

    that produces the world’s largest event showcasing virtual reality

    technology, VRLA Expo, as well as The Proto Awards, the premier

    celebration for recognizing virtual reality content. Beek casts aside sterile 5-star

    rating systems and lets users discuss and react to books while they are

    actually reading them.

    Introducing the 2016 Thiel Fellows

    Boyan Slat (Delft, The Netherlands)

    The Ocean Cleanup

    Environmental

    Technology

    Boyan founded and runs The Ocean Cleanup, a

    non-profit organization that develops technologies to rid the world’s

    oceans of plastic. Poirier (Montreal)

    Retinad

    Virtual

    Reality; Gaming

    Samuel is co-founder and CEO of Retinad, the

    preeminent analytics platform for virtual reality apps. Our message may have seemed

    odd four or five years ago–some found it blasphemous to question how

    well American higher education was working, and to suggest

    entrepreneurship as an alternative path–but today even the colleges are

    waking up; top schools are creating their own incubators, crafting more

    flexible stop-out policies, and even raising venture capital funds.

    This year’s cohort was selected from more than 6,000 applications

    received from around the world.

    Ivonna Dumanyan (Kherson, Ukraine / Durham, NC)

    BioMetrix

    Wearable

    Performance Technology; Artificial Intelligence

    Ivonna is

    co-founder and CEO of BioMetrix, a wearable platform for injury

    prediction and prevention. Three years later, Yellowberry has pioneered a new approach

    to this market, and has expanded beyond bras to underwear, loungewear,

    and activewear.

    Panashe Mahachi (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada / Mountain View, CA)

    Lace

    Labs

    Government Technology

    Panashe is

    co-founder of Lace, a marketplace for cities and other municipalities to

    find and purchase cutting-edge software. AppHub’s mission is to empower engineers by eliminating

    tedious and redundant, time-consuming work.

    The Thiel Foundation supports science, technology, and long-term

    thinking about the future. Their wholesome, slow-simmered bone broth is available at select

    Whole Foods, Sprouts Farmers Market locations, and several online

    retailers.

    Joey Levy (New York)

    Quizr

    Sports

    Gaming

    Joey founded Draftpot, a daily fantasy sports platform,

    from his dorm room in 2014. Through a

    workforce of students who live on campus, EnvoyNow makes delivery

    direct-to-dorm room, direct-to-lecture hall, and direct-to-study nook

    faster and more accurate than mapping software-based delivery services

    can achieve.

    To date, companies created by Thiel Fellows are together worth more than

    $1.4 billion.

    Matthew Salsamendi & James Boehm (Seattle, WA)

    Beam

    Social

    Gaming

    Matt and James co-founded Beam, an interactive

    live-streaming platform for gamers. NeoReach is currently used by industry giants such as

    Wal-Mart, Amazon, and NBC.

    James Sun (Toronto, Canada)

    Revlo

    Social

    Gaming

    James is co-founder and CEO of Revlo, a fan engagement

    platform for the game broadcaster Twitch. Lunar Labs aims to bring online the 64 million

    Americans–and then billions more worldwide–that don’t yet own a

    smartphone.

    Matt Arbesfeld (Cambridge, MA)

    AppHub

    Developer

    Tools

    Matt co-founded AppHub, a company that builds tools that

    let app developers deploy and update software applications easily and

    instantly. By leveraging the power of ocean currents to

    concentrate and extract plastic waste, The Ocean Cleanup is orders of

    magnitude more efficient than traditional approaches that rely on boats

    and nets.

    Thiel Fellows receive mentorship and guidance from current and former

    fellows, as well as from the Thiel Foundation’s network of technology

    entrepreneurs, investors, and scientists.

    Anthony Zhang (Calgary, Alberta, Canada / Mountain View, CA)

    EnvoyNow

    Local

    Delivery

    Anthony is CEO and co-founder of EnvoyNow, a last-mile

    food delivery service focusing on colleges and universities.

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Thiel Foundation today accepted 29 new members into the 2016 class

    of Thiel Fellows. Revlo makes it easy for

    broadcasters to interact with all their fans and monetize them.

    Christian Owens (London)

    Paddle.com

    Software

    Christian

    is the founder and CEO of Paddle.com, which builds infrastructure for

    software companies to help companies deal with complex issues such as

    payments, taxes, localization, and analytics.

    Hunter Rosenblume & Rohith Varanasi (Detroit, MI)

    Lunar

    Labs

    Telecommunications

    Hunter and Rohith

    co-founded Lunar Labs, a startup that sells smartphones with no monthly

    contracts and pay-as-you-go data on a per-app basis starting at just

    pennies per day. BioMetrix is pushing the limits of connected

    technology and insight-driven intelligence with a simple, skin-adhered

    sensor. Retinad helps

    developers create better VR content with tools such as heat maps and

    user emotional tracking so that consumers can enjoy a more immersive,

    personalized virtual reality experience.

    Megan Grassell (Jackson Hole, WY)

    Yellowberry

    Apparel

    Megan

    founded Yellowberry in high school when she realized that tween girls

    like her younger sister lacked age-appropriate options when buying their

    first bras.

    Young people now have more options than ever.”

    “We launched the fellowship in 2011 to test a simple thesis: college

    isn’t right for everyone–especially for young people who want to create

    new things,” said Blake Masters, President of the Thiel Foundation.

    Varden’s technology has been used to transport thousands of people, more

    than any other autonomous vehicle company in the US.

    Henry Hu (Hong Kong / San Francisco)

    Cafe X

    Food

    Technology, Automation

    A native of Beijing, Henry Hu is CEO and

    co-founder of Cafe X, which designs, manufactures, and operates

    automated robotic cafés that serve locally roasted coffee in 10 seconds.

    “In the past few years we’ve seen a dramatic change in the way young

    people approach their potential,” said Jack Abraham, Executive Director

    of the Thiel Fellowship. “Many are applying to the program with one or

    two companies already under their belts–they’ve become successful

    founders before they can even buy a beer

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