Joe Lonsdale

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Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at 8VC, a venture capital fund that, as of February 2019, had made 104 investments and raised $1.2B. 8VC's most notable exits including Guardant Health, Progressly, and RiskMatch.

Joe was an early institutional investor in many notable companies including Wish, Oculus, Oscar, Illumio, Blend, RelateIQ, Joby Aviation, Guardant Health, Synthego, and was the youngest member of the Forbes 100 Midas List for 2 years.

Joe is a co-founder of Palantir, a multi-billion dollar global software company best known for its work in defense and finance. Most recently, he was a founding partner at Formation 8, one of the top performing private funds and the precursor to 8VC. Together, these funds manage a total committed capital of over $2.7 billion. Before that, he founded Addepar, which has over $1.3 trillion managed on its wealth management technology platform; and OpenGov, which modernizes various processes for over 2,000 municipalities and state agencies. He is also a founder of Affinity, Anduin and Esper.