{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "generatedAt": "2026-10-16T03:32:23.920Z",
  "findingType": "money_flow",
  "findingId": 2014,
  "contentHash": "2acf04167005f162ca3be24e4de6d71b4e0027ef8b683c9f5922697174d8c14e",
  "title": "Founders Fund (Thiel) -> the defense-tech portfolio (Palantir / Anduril / SpaceX)",
  "summary": "Money-flow chain tracing 3 hops with documented total of USD unknown. Confidence: primary.",
  "methodology": "Money-flow chains are constructed by tracing financial transactions between entities through documented mechanisms (contracts, donations, grants, etc.). Each hop is independently cited. Vanish points mark where the audit trail breaks — funds enter an entity but no corresponding outflow is documented. Confidence is assessed per-hop and rolled up to the chain level.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://foundersfund.com/",
      "label": "https://foundersfund.com/",
      "type": "primary"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://foundersfund.com/",
      "label": "Founders Fund",
      "type": "citation"
    }
  ],
  "queries": [
    {
      "description": "Chain record",
      "table": "money_flow_chains",
      "parameters": {
        "id": 2014
      }
    },
    {
      "description": "Chain hops with entity resolution",
      "table": "money_flow_hops",
      "parameters": {
        "chainId": 2014
      }
    }
  ],
  "dataSnapshot": {
    "chainId": 2014,
    "title": "Founders Fund (Thiel) -> the defense-tech portfolio (Palantir / Anduril / SpaceX)",
    "sourceDescription": "Peter Thiel's Founders Fund seeded and re-financed the core contractors of the national-security-tech network.",
    "sourceRefType": "manual",
    "documentedTotal": null,
    "currency": "USD",
    "confidence": "primary",
    "sector": "defense",
    "status": "active",
    "asOfDate": null,
    "provenance": null,
    "hops": [
      {
        "ordinal": 0,
        "from": "Founders Fund",
        "to": "Palantir Technologies",
        "amount": null,
        "mechanism": "asset_purchase",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "citations": [
          {
            "url": "https://foundersfund.com/",
            "title": "Founders Fund"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "ordinal": 1,
        "from": "Founders Fund",
        "to": "Anduril Industries",
        "amount": null,
        "mechanism": "asset_purchase",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "citations": []
      },
      {
        "ordinal": 2,
        "from": "Founders Fund",
        "to": "SpaceX",
        "amount": null,
        "mechanism": "asset_purchase",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "citations": []
      }
    ],
    "createdAt": "2026-06-01T09:18:44.153Z"
  },
  "entities": [
    {
      "id": 22,
      "name": "Founders Fund",
      "slug": "founders-fund",
      "type": "company"
    },
    {
      "id": 17,
      "name": "Palantir Technologies",
      "slug": "palantir-technologies",
      "type": "company"
    },
    {
      "id": 26,
      "name": "Anduril Industries",
      "slug": "anduril-industries",
      "type": "company"
    },
    {
      "id": 23,
      "name": "SpaceX",
      "slug": "spacex",
      "type": "company"
    }
  ],
  "verificationSteps": [
    "Retrieve chain #2014 from money_flow_chains and confirm title and documented total.",
    "Hop 0: verify Founders Fund → Palantir Technologies ($null, asset_purchase) via https://foundersfund.com/",
    "Hop 1: verify Founders Fund → Anduril Industries ($null, asset_purchase)",
    "Hop 2: verify Founders Fund → SpaceX ($null, asset_purchase)",
    "Verify the SHA-256 content hash by re-generating the JSON bundle."
  ]
}