Joseph Lonsdale

Joseph Lonsdale is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Esper Technologies. He serves as Board Member of Buildzoom, Wish, Nines & Socotra. He also served as a Board Member at BlueVoyant and Radius Intelligence. He also serves as Advisor at iFly.vc. He is an Advisor of Epirus. He serves as General Partner at 8VC. He is also a Co-Founder of Terminal. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Affinity. He is an Investor at Oscar. He serves on several boards including Zenreach, OpenGov, Illumio, Radius, Hyperloop-One, and Wish. He is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Addepar. He is a Co-Founder of Palantir, a multi-billion dollar global software company best known for its work in defense and finance. Most recently, he was a Founding Partner at Formation 8, the precursor fund to 8VC, which manages over 1.5 billion USD and is one of the top-performing private funds. Before that, he founded Addepar, a leading wealth management technology platform, and OpenGov. He was also a Co-Founder and served as President at Anduin Ventures. Previously, he was an Early Executive at Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital, which they grew into a large global macro hedge fund. He also worked with the financial arm of PayPal while he was at Stanford. He served as Advisor at Greenoaks Capital. He is also an Angel Investor. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2003.