A spokeswoman for Angermeyer, who has a family-run office and other businesses in Malta, did not respond to a request for comment.
In early 2021, Teal Capital also became a shareholder of a Maltese company through a series of complex developments. The deal involved Coru, a Mexican online financial advice startup whose parent company is in London.
The entity controlled by Mr. Thiel and his husband, Mr. Danzeisen, was one of Koll’s largest owners, company filings show. The startup needed additional funding in the second half of 2020, but investors were unable to reach an agreement to put in more cash, two former investors said. came under control equivalent to
Around that time, Mr. Thiel, Mr. Danzeisen and several other Kol investors founded a company in Malta called EUM Holdings Merite, Maltese records show. British records show that the company bought Coru’s shares from his control for about $100,000. The records do not contain details of EUM’s business activities.
Coru is now owned by EUM. Its shareholders include Mr. Thiel, Mr. Danzeisen, Richard Lee, son of Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing, and a group that includes a former senior government official in Nicaragua and a descendant of a Spanish family that made a fortune selling Lladró porcelain. will be figure.
Thiel began considering Maltese citizenship around that time, according to people familiar with the process. By late 2021, he was well through the application process and held a body that responded to inquiries from the Maltese government regarding his business and political activities, according to documents.
Questions included Thiel’s role at Palantir Technologies, a data analytics firm founded by Thiel that works with governments and businesses, and his political activism in support of Trump.