Peter Thiel, best known in the investing world as the founder of Palantir Technologies, has deepened his ties to the defense technology sector by backing a German start-up that recently tripled its ...

Another company backed by tech magnate (and part-time apocalypticist) Peter Thiel is seeking to disrupt Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal reports that Substrate, a U.S.-based chip startup, ...

AI chip startup Etched raised about $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, part of an effort to compete with Nvidia Corp. in the booming market for ...

Billionaire Peter Thiel argues European tech founders are too risk-averse, cashing out early instead of pursuing global scale ...

A San Francisco startup has raised more than $100 million for technology that could upend the global semiconductor industry—if it proves out. Founded by a protégé of investor Peter Thiel, Substrate ...

A German defense startup, with financial backing from American defense magnate Peter Thiel among others, finally got to demonstrate the capabilities of its Virtus bomb-drones at two separate events, ...

Peter Thiel’s Thiel Bio and Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions are among the investors backing health-care company HistoSonics Inc. at a $3 billion valuation — betting that its technology that can help ...