Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is a founder of Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tysons Corner, Virginia, New York City and Covent Garden, London, is a software company that produces the Palantir Government and Palantir Finance platforms...

, a private company focused on analyzing, integrating, and visualizing data. Prior to Palantir Lonsdale was an early executive at Clarium Capital

Clarium Capital

Clarium Capital Management LLC is an American investment management and hedge fund company that pursues a global macro strategy, that Peter Thiel founded in San Francisco in 2002...

. He helped Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel is an American business magnate, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. With Elon Musk and Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO...

 grow the global macro fund to $5 Billion in assets under management. He currently serves as Advisor to the CEO. Lonsdale is also the President of Anduin Ventures and a founder and CEO of Addepar. He is also affiliated with Gunnar Optiks and Ostendo, personally invested in Ness Computing

Ness Computing

Ness Computing is a personal search company. It was founded in October 2009 by Corey Reese, Paul Twohey, Nikhil Raghavan, and Steven Schlansker...

, and recently worked with Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

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 to launch Backplane.

Personal Life and Education

Lonsdale grew up in Fremont, California

Fremont, California

Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...

 and attended Mission San Jose High School

Mission San Jose High School

Mission San Jose High School , is a public, co-educational, four-year secondary school founded in 1964 and located in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont, California, United States...

. He graduated from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in 2003 with a degree in Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

.

Philanthropy

Lonsdale sits on the board of California Common Sense, Strive for College, The Seasteading Institute, Lifeboat Foundation,, Tonic and ONEHOPE Wine a wine company devoted to donating a portion of their profits to charity. He was formerly on the board of the Social Profit Foundation.

Public Speaking

In 2011 Lonsdale participated in TED (conference)

TED (conference)

TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....

Silicon Valley. Londsale gave a speech about "Learning from Numbers." In 2010 Lonsdale participated in TEDx La Jolla, giving a speech entitled "Man Machine Symbiosis.".

Anduin Ventures

In 2010 Lonsdale founded Anduin Ventures.
Current investments include Infochimps, Ostendo, Addepar, Onramp, Apparel Media Group, Kohort, Bump, Badgeville, Zanbato and Context Logic.