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Brian Rowen

President & Managing Partner at Fifth Down Capital

United States

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $275,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Corporate Development
Business Strategy
Private Equity
Strategy
Product Management
Business Development
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investments
Valuation
Due Diligence
Management Consulting
Financial Modeling

Education

  • Phi Beta Kappa, JE Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement

    Stanford University

    (2005 - 2009)

Investments

Arena

Series A

Total Funding: $34M

Work Experience

Fifth Down Capital

2023

  • President & Managing Partner

    2023

The Thiel Foundation

2022 - 2023

  • President

    2022 - 2023

Thiel Capital

2021 - 2023

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2021 - 2023

  • Director, Strategic Investments

    2021 - 2021

Palantir Technologies

2014 - 2021

  • Corporate Development, Head of Corporate Development

    2014 - 2021

    https://www.palantir.com Joined Corporate Development team following sale of Propeller to Palantir. Served as Head of Corporate Development 2015-2021.

Stanford University

2010 - 2016

  • Board of Directors (Stanford Athletics - Buck/Cardinal)

    2010 - 2016

Propeller

2013 - 2014

  • Founder & CEO

    2013 - 2014

    https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/27/propeller-gets-1-25m-from-a16z-ffangel-everyone-good-basically/

Robinhood

2012 - 2014

  • Advisor

    2012 - 2014