Paul Deneys

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.

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. provides banking, financial products and services to retail, small business, corporate and institutional clients. It operates its business through the following segments: Australia Retail and Commercial; Institutional; New Zealand; Pacific; and Technology, Services and Operations and Group Centre. The Australia segment comprises the retail and corporate and commercial business units which provides products and services to consumer and private banking customers in Australia via the branch network, mortgage specialists, the contact centres, a variety of self-service channels and and third party brokers; and banking services including traditional relationship banking and financial solutions through managers focusing on privately owned small, medium, and large enterprises as well as the agricultural businesses. The Institutional segment refers to the transaction banking, loans and specialised finance and markets solutions. The New Zealand segment refers to the retail and commercial business units. The Pacific segment offers products and services to retail customers, small to medium-sized enterprises, institutional customers and governments located in the Pacific Islands. The Technology, Services and Operations, and Group Centre segment provides support to the operating divisions including technology, operations, shared services, property, risk management, financial management, strategy, marketing, human resources and corporate affairs; as well as group treasury, shareholder functions, enablement functions and minority investments in Asia. The company was founded in 1835 and is headquartered in Docklands, Australia.

TruMid Holdings LLC provides banking and financial services. The company was founded in by Michael Sobel and Ronald M. Mateo in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Reunert Ltd., IQ Business Pty Ltd. (New Zealand) is a management and technology consulting firm. The company is based in Rivonia, South Africa. IQ Business specializes in digital business and helps clients innovate their business models and accelerate digital transformation. The South African company offers training courses covering agile safe design thinking and process innovation. The company also provides customer centricity measurements, customer experience analysis, and insights for effective decision making. The company focuses on aligning company strategies and culture to purpose and prioritize a keen customer and channel understanding to innovate smartly. IQ Business aims to create experiences that matter in the experience economy. The company was founded in 1998 by Johan J. Roets. The CEO is Adam Craker. IQ Business Pty Ltd. (New Zealand was acquired by Reunert ICT Holdings Pty Ltd. on July 01, 2023 for $24.92 million.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Banc of America Securities Asia Ltd. is a Chinese company that provides securities brokerage services. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Pan-African Private Equity Fund Managers is a private equity subsidiary of Pan-African Capital Holdings (Pty) Ltd., founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in South Africa.

The Small Enterprise Foundation is a microfinance organization based in Limpopo, South Africa. The South African company's vision is to create a world free of poverty, where every woman has the opportunity to realize her potential. The company provides micro loans to South African women, removing barriers and empowering them to change their lives. The organization takes a holistic approach to poverty reduction, offering savings mobilization, financial and business education, and gender empowerment. The CEO of the private company is John Wit.

Valar Ventures Management LLC (Valar Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Peter Thiel. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Delta Drone Africa engages in the supply of dust suppression systems and drones for data acquisition. The company is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Artivest Holdings, Inc. provides digital platform for private investment managers and investors. The firm offers technology-driven investment platforms for fund managers, wealth managers, and independent advisors. It offers private equity and venture capital funds. The company was founded by James David Waldinger in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ChemomAb Ltd. develops novel chemokine blocking therapies for inflammatory and fibrotic disorders. It specializes in the development of proprietary monoclonal antibodies, directed towards novel targets, for the treatment of immune-mediated and fibrotic disorders including orphan indications. The company was founded by Adi Mor and Jacob George in 2011 and is headquartered Tel Aviv, Israel.

Peptilogics, Inc. operates as an early-stage biotechnology company, that develops a new class of antibiotics with a novel mechanism of action derived from their eCAP (engineered cationic antibiotic peptide) platform for the treatment of multidrug-resistant infections. Its platform has the potential to produce antibiotics with broad-spectrum activity with low risk of generating resistance, due to the unique mechanism of action involving the targeted disruption of bacterial membranes. The company was founded by Jonathan Steckbeck and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Roc Capital Pty Ltd (ROC Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Rocketmine Pty Ltd. provides aerial data and drone solutions. The firms drones remotely manage water and forestry resources, deliver data for precision agriculture, and monitor and evaluate site activities. The company is headquartered in Boskruin, South Africa.

Public Display Technologies Pty Ltd. develops and manufactures digital signage systems. It specializes in digital media displays and interactive electronic kiosks, ATMs and offers solutions for communications technology applications. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Randburg, South Africa.

Invicta Medical, Inc. operates as a medical technology company that develops wearable device for treatment of sleep apnea and snoring. Its device detects and treats disturbed breathing through electrical stimulation. The company was founded by Steven T. Kent and Harold Kent in 2013 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA.

Crescendo Equity Partners Ltd. (Crescendo) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by Matthew Danzeisen and Lee Ki-Doo. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

iText Group NV is a Belgian software company that provides a Java and .NET PDF SDK library to create, manipulate, and edit PDF documents. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium, and has subsidiaries in Belgium. The company also offers pdfRender, an iText Core add-on that allows users to generate images from PDFs. Recently, the company has been working on integrating blockchain technology into their products to store digital signatures in a blockchain instead of in the PDF document. It was founded by Bruno Lowagie, and Gary Peter Fry has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

GWC Inc (GWC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Wen Chu and Yiqun Bo. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Sanari Capital (Sanari Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Samantha Pokroy. The firm is headquartered in Johannesburg, Gauteng.

Beijing Immunochina Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. engages in the development of CAR-T technology and CAR-T cell products. The company was founded on April 14, 2015 by He Ting, Lu Xian, and Qi Fei Fei and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

ATAI Life Sciences AG operates as a holding company, which is a global biotech company builder. The company was founded by Christian Angermayer, Lars Christian Wilde, Srinivas G. Rao and Florian Brand in 2018 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Enclear Therapies, Inc. develops and manufactures novel device-based therapies to treat patients. The firm device is developed to treat and halt the progression of neurodegenerative diseases by removing toxic proteins known to drive pathology. The company was founded by Anthony R. DePasqua, Jonathan J. Fleming, Kasper Roet, William B. Gormley and Kevin Eggan and is headquartered in Newburyport, MA.

First Sentier Investors Holdings Pty Ltd. operates as an investment holding company. The company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Naspers Foundry (Naspers Foundry) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bridgetown 3 Holdings Ltd. is a blank check company, which engages in effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on January 4, 2021, and is headquartered in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Blackrock Microsystems, Inc. is a platform company that specializes in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology and the development of implantable solutions that improve human lives. The company is based in Salt Lake City, UT and has subsidiaries in the United States. Blackrock's precision electrode technology is at the core of many worldwide innovations in BCI, enabling dozens of early users to regain their ability to see, hear, move, and talk. Blackrock Microsystem's mission is to provide innovative tools and neurotech expertise to translate technology into novel, implantable clinical solutions that improve human lives. The company was founded in 2008 by Marcus Gerhardt and Florian Solzbacher, with Marcus Gerhardt serving as the CEO since then.

The Thiel Foundation awards grants to groups that empower people to improve their lives, champions organizations and individuals who expose human rights abuses and authoritarianism. It programs include The Thiel Fellowship, Breakout Labs and Imitatio. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.