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Andrew McCormack | Founding Partner at Valar Ventures | Fintech Finance

About Andrew McCormack

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Andrew McCormack is a founding Partner at Valar Ventures. Andrew’s career in technology has included business and corporate development roles at eCount (acquired by Citicorp) and Yahoo!. He joined PayPal in 2001, where he worked closely with Peter. After PayPal’s sale to eBay, Andrew helped launch Clarium Capital and later founded a restaurant group in San Francisco. In 2008, Andrew rejoined Peter at Thiel Capital, where he led various international initiatives for Thiel Capital and Peter personally. Andrew McCormack received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He's based in New York City but spends much of his time traveling internationally, working with portfolio companies and prospective portfolio companies. After five years and two great restaurants, Frisson and Laiola, In 2010 they launched Valar Ventures, a venture firm dedicated to finding and working with transformative technology companies located outside the United State

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