Brian Rowen
Managing Partner at Fifth Down Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
President & Managing Partner
2023 - Current
Fifth Down primarily invests in early and growth stage companies within the technology and consumer sectors.
President
2022 - 2023
We support science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future.
Chief Operating Officer
2021 - 2023
Director, Strategic Investments
2021 - 2021
Thiel Capital focuses on investments in various industries such as artificial intelligence, drones, and healthcare.
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.
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Board of Directors (Stanford Athletics - Buck/Cardinal)
2010 - 2016
Founder & CEO
2013 - 2014
https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/27/propeller-gets-1-25m-from-a16z-ffangel-everyone-good-basically/
Advisor
2012 - 2014
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.