| Joe Lonsdale is the Founder and Managing Partner at 8VC, an early-stage venture capital firm managing over $6 billion in capital. He has founded over a dozen companies, including Palantir, a leading data analytics company; Addepar, a wealth management platform; and OpenGov, the largest cloud software provider for local governments. He continues to create and scale companies through the 8VC Build program.
Joe was an early investor in Anduril, Oculus, Guardant, Oscar, Illumio, Blend, Qualia, Joby, Orca Bio, and Flexport, among many others. Joe and his wife Tayler are active in many philanthropic and institutional pursuits: they founded the non-partisan Cicero Institute to promote accountable governance, and in 2021 Joe became the founding chairman of the University of Austin. Joe, Tayler, and their five children live in Austin, Texas, USA. |
