Biography

Trae Stephens is a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Stephens is currently a partner at Founders Fund, where he invests across sectors with a particular interest in startups operating in the government space. He is also a co-founder and the executive chairman of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company focused on autonomous systems. Previously, Mr. Stephens was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence/defense space as well as international expansion, helping large organizations solve their data analysis problems. He also served as a part of Palantir’s product team, which leads the design and strategy for new product offerings. During his time at Palantir, Mr. Stephens served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. Prior to Palantir, he worked as a computational linguist building enterprise solutions to Arabic/Persian name matching and data enrichment within the United States Intelligence community. He began his career working in the office of then Congressman Rob Portman and in the Political Affairs Office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C. immediately following the installation of Hamid Karzai’s transitional government. Mr. Stephens earned his B.S.F.S. in regional and comparative studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.