Chamath Palihapitiya
@chamathpalihapitiya
Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American businessman and CEO of Social Capital
Building Social Capital as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Born
- 1976
- Educated at
- University of Waterloo · Lisgar Collegiate Institute
About
Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist and engineer, born in 1976 in Colombo. They studied at University of Waterloo.
In context
Social Capital was founded in 2011 and has no closure on record. Among the 68 other financial services companies founded in the 2010s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 7 years.
Named alongside
- Christopher LynchDirector
- Kuang ChenExecutive Officer, Director
- David HershDirector
- GEORGE ZACHARYDirector
- MATT WILKINSONDirector
- SAM LAWRENCEExecutive Officer, Director
At Groq, Inc.
- Douglas WightmanExecutive Officer, Director
- Jonathan RossExecutive Officer, Director
At Mitra Future Technologies, Inc.
- Denise GrayDirector
- Elan FrantzDirector
- Jiang-Ling DuDirector
- Michal WolkinDirector
- Vivaswath KumarExecutive Officer, Director
- Will DreweryDirector
- William ChuehDirector
- William DreweryDirector
- David SoloffExecutive Officer, Director
- Joseph ReisingerDirector
- Karim FarisDirector
- Lawrence SummersDirector
At Syapse, Inc.
- Alexander HardyDirector
- Frank WilliamsDirector
- Gary Kurtzman, M.D.Director
- Glenn WinokurExecutive Officer, Director
- Jay ZaveriDirector
- John KuelperDirector
- Jonathan HirschExecutive Officer, Director
- Ken TarkoffExecutive Officer, Director
Contribution
Chamath's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.
Companies
- Social Capitalventure capital firmFounder · financial services · Palo Alto, United States · Founded 2011
- CRUSHPATH SYSTEMS, INC.Director · Other Technology · SAN FRANCISCO, United States · Founded 2012
- Premise Data CorpDirector · Other Technology · SAN FRANCISCO, United States · Founded 2012
- Syapse, Inc.formerly Syapse, Inc.; filing with the SEC since 2014Director · Other Technology · PALO ALTO, United States
- Captricity, Inc.Director · Other Technology · OAKLAND, United States · Founded 2011
- Groq, Inc.formerly Groq, Inc.; filing with the SEC since 2016Director · Computers · PALO ALTO, United States · Founded 2016
- Mitra Future Technologies, Inc.Director · Other · Mountain View, United States · Founded 2021