Leadership & Staff
Michael Gibson
Co-founder of 1517 and Thiel Fellowship associate
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Advisor
Austin Russell
Founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies Inc.; announced in 2023 that he was leading an $800 million deal to buy Forbes Media Group
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CEO
Michael Russell
Commercial Real Estate Agent from Newport Beach, CA
Rodger Cleye
Tiktok media personality, Lidar engineer, and tech entrepreneur
Billy Evans
Partner of and father of children of Elizabeth Holmes
Owners
GVA Capital
Russian linked Venture Firm
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Owner
Invariantes Fund
Brazilian VC fund
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Owner
Canvas Ventures
Venture capital firm
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Owner
DVI Equity Partners
Venture capital specialized in micro-cap investments in start-up and early stage companies
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Owner
Peter Thiel
Billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir Cofounder; Chess prodigy
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Investor
Suleyman Kerimov
Russian billionaire investor; sanctioned by the US Treasury in April 2018
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Investor
Services & Transactions
Silicon Valley Bank
U.S.-based commercial bank, now under the control of the FDIC
Tesla, Inc.
Manufacturers of electric vehicles, solar panels, clean energy storage. widely hated for Musk Trump DOGE government chaos
Mobileye
Autonomous Driving Software
