Ken Howery

The Founders Fund Management LLC (The Founders Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Andreas Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Signature Therapeutics, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It focuses on developing medications for use in pain management and ADHD. Its proprietary BIO-MD platform is designed to deter prescription drug abuse by virtue of strong chemical bonds within the prodrug and also offers solution to the ongoing epidemic of prescription opioid drug abuse. The company was founded by Steven L. Shafer in 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

ZocDoc, Inc. provides online services for patients to find and schedule doctor appointments. It helps patients find in-network neighborhood doctors, instantly book appointments online, see what other real patients have to say, get reminders for upcoming appointments and preventive checkups, fill out their paperwork online, and more. The firm's services are free for patients and available across the United States via Zocdoc.com or the Zocdoc app for iPhone and Android. ZocDoc was founded by Cyrus Massoumi, Oliver Kharraz and Nikhil Ganju in April 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Founded in 2002, Clarium Capital Management LLC is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager located in San Francisco, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Thiel Capital LLC. Clarium provides investment advisory services to a suite of hedge funds (including Clarium LP). Clarium is the successor firm to Thiel Capital Management LLC, which launched in 1996.

PopExpert, Inc. develops and operates a platform that provides a learning marketplace for lifelong learning. Its platform enables students to connect with experts for live and one-to-one video lessons in the areas of meditation, nutrition, relationships, productivity, career mentoring, language, music, style, and more. The company was founded by Ingrid Sanders in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.