Matias Van Thienen

Matias Van Thienen is a Partner at Founders Fund, a venture capital firm with approximately $17 billion in assets under management, and is currently based in Miami, Florida. Before joining the firm in 2018, he executed investments at Insight and CapitalG, and managed strategy, fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions in corporate development at Wallapop. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Information Systems from NYU Stern. Throughout his career, he has backed prominent technology companies across multiple sectors, including early investments in CrowdStrike, UiPath, Qualtrics, and Looker. His current portfolio involvement features major industry players such as SpaceX, Stripe, Figma, and Ramp, with typical check sizes ranging from $500,000 to $1 million. Today, Van Thienen primarily focuses on growth-stage and international investments across the artificial intelligence, aerospace, biotechnology, defense, and financial technology sectors.