Valyrian is an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in the next generation of Thiel Fellows.
Thiel Fellowship has generated over $1 trillion in enterprise value since launch in 2011
Enterprise Value
Thiel Fellowship's impact: $500B+ in enterprise value generated since its 2011 launch.
Fellows per class
Each class consists of precisely 22 Fellows, selected for their exceptional potential.
Fellows
A total of 271 outstanding individuals have been honored as Thiel Fellows since inception.
Unicorns
10% probability of hitting
unicorn status.
Meet the team
Nick Shekerdemian
Nick is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Venture Collective (TVC), an asset management firm focused on investing in technology and science solving for the world’s largest problems. The firm has raised over $250M and has backed 2 Unicorns since its founding in 2019. He’s also the co-founder of the Inflection Point Acquisition Corp franchise, which has raised $800M across 3 SPACs.
Nick matriculated from Oxford University before receiving the Thiel Fellowship in 2017. Before moving into asset management, Nick built and sold Headstart AI, which went through Y Combinator and raised 3 round of venture capital. He’s an LP in 6 funds and has invested as an Angel in 60+ companies.
Zaid Rahman
Zaid is the Founder & CEO of Flex, an AI-Native Private Bank serving business owners gloabally with $105M in equity and $300M in debt capital raised. Flex is building financial products and AI agents to be the full financial home for owners: private credit, business finance, personal finance, payments, and an agentic ERP.
Zaid is a Thiel Fellow (Class of 2017) and started Volley AI, which was a first generation large language model startup serving Fortune 500 companies. Zaid also co-founded 305 Ventures.
Joey Levy
Joey is the Founder & CEO of Betr, a leading real money
gaming and media company. Joey was previously the
founder of Simplebet (acquired by DraftKings for up to $195M), the leading B2B technology
pioneering microbetting on U.S. sports (licensing
technology to companies like DraftKings, ESPNBet,
Caesars, Bet365, Hard Rock, among others). Joey was
also the Founder of Draftpot (acq. 2017).
Joey is a Thiel Fellow (Class of 2016), and attended Columbia University. Joey is also the co-founder of 305 Ventures, a leading Venture Capital fund based out of Miami, FL.