Elon Musk

Beyond investing

Founder at xAI

xAI's investors · 60

7P7percent VenturesLondon · $250K – $2M checksABAbstract VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $750K checksACAccess Ventures (New York)New YorkAGAglae VenturesParis · $108K – $5.4M checksAMAmity VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checksANAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksARArctic DigitalBABanner VCAustinBLBlackRockMexico City · since 2024BRBrilliant Phoenix CapitalVancouverCHChaifetz GroupChicagoCICisco InvestmentsSan Jose · since 2026COCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksCOCold Start VenturesNew YorkDBDBL PartnersPalo AltoDUDuke Capital PartnersDurhamE1E1 VenturesSan FranciscoEAEast West Ventures EWVLos AngelesEVEverybody Ventures$100K checksFAFactorial FundsSan FranciscoFIFidelity InvestmentsBoston · since 2026FUFuture VenturesLos Altos · $1M – $10M checksGLGlade Brook Capital PartnersGreenwichHOHOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksHUHuman CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $200M checksINInflection VenturesNew YorkINIntegra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checksJ1J17 CapitalJAJavelin Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $4M checksLELerer HippeauNew York · $500K – $2M checksLILightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checksLOLoup VenturesMinneapolisMAManhattan Venture PartnersNew YorkMAMaven VenturesPalo Alto · $1M checksMEMech VenturesLas VegasMEMentha PartnersMEMetaplanetTallinn · $500K – $10M checksMGMGXAbu Dhabi · since 2026MIMillennium New HorizonsSilicon ValleyMOMoonshots CapitalAustin · $5K – $2.5M checksNVNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2026OUOurCrowdJerusalem · $604K – $65M checksPAPage One VenturesSilicon ValleyPAParkway Venture CapitalNew YorkPAPartners ResoluteChicagoPRProtagonistBay Harbor Islands · $10K – $1M checksQAQatar Investment AuthorityDoha · since 2026RERedstoneBerlin · $500K – $2.5M checksSASanctor CapitalNew YorkSESequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2024SQSquareOne CapitalMiamiSTStaged VenturesSTStepstone GroupCharlotte · since 2026TYType One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksUNUntapped VenturesGlendale · $500K – $2M checksVAValor Equity PartnersChicago · since 2026VAVanedge CapitalVancouver · $1M – $15M checksVAVanedge Capital Limited PartnershipVancouverWAWAGMI VenturesWIWinklevoss CapitalNew York · $100K – $5M checks

Co-founders at xAI

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Yuhuai (Tony) WuFounder

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Dennis MortensenExecutive Officer, Director

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Alex PoonDirector

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Greg YangFounder

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Guodong ZhangFounder

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Igor BabuschkinFounder

Founder at Neuralink-LogoArtboard-1

Neuralink-LogoArtboard-1's investors · 37

ADAdvaita CapitalBostonALAlleyCorpNew York · $1M – $5M checks · since 2025AUAurum Venture PartnersPleasantonBEBeyond CapitalSan DiegoCRCraft VenturesSan Francisco · $50K – $50M checks · since 2021DRDreamers VCEl Segundo · $500K – $5M checksFOFounders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks · since 2023FRFred Ehrsamsince 2021GEGestio CapitalLondonGIGigafundAustin · $1M – $5M checks · since 2021GLGlade Brook Capital PartnersGreenwichGVGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks · since 2021HOHOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksHUHuman CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $200M checks · since 2025INIntegra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checksK2K2 GlobalSingaporeKHKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksLILightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2025MAMarketX VenturesMOMoonshots CapitalAustin · $5K – $2.5M checksOROra GlobalNew YorkPAPage One VenturesSilicon ValleyPAPartners ResoluteChicagoQAQatar Investment AuthorityDoha · since 2025S3S32Palo AltoSASam Altmansince 2021SESection 32Palo AltoSESequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2025THThrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2025TITime BioVenturesSouthern CaliforniaTRTrousdale VenturesWest Hollywood · $1M – $5M checksTYType One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksVAValor Equity PartnersChicago · since 2021VAVantage Legacy CapitalHobokenVAVaranium Capital AdvisorsMumbaiVUVU Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $200K – $1M checksVYVy CapitalDubai · since 2021

Co-founder & former Co-chair / board member at OpenAI

OpenAI's investors · 93

7B7BC Venture CapitalSan FranciscoA-A-Rod CorpMiamiA.A.Capital VenturesSan FranciscoA'A'Z AngelsLos GatosADAdvent InternationalBoston · $1.1B checksALAlpha FundsOdessaALAlpha Wave GlobalMiamiALAltimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2026ANAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026ANAntiSan Juan · $250K – $30M checksB B Capital GroupSan Francisco · $10M – $50M checksBABanca Investis — Family OfficeMilanBEBedrockLos Angeles · $5M – $30M checksBLBlackstonesince 2026BOboldstart venturesMiami · $1M – $3M checksBOBond Capital ManagementSan Francisco · $100K – $25M checksBRBright Pixel CapitalMaiaCACats.vcVilnius · $200K – $500K checksCOCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2025COCosmic Venture PartnersAustin · $100K – $5M checksDRDragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025EAEastlink Capital PartnersMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checksELElad GilSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checksEMEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEVEverybody Ventures$100K checksEXExpedite VenturesBerlin · since 2024FEFelicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksFIFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcPalo AltoFIFirestreak VenturesFOFounders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checksFRFrontier VenturesCupertino · $100K – $5M checksGAGaldana VenturesBarcelonaGEGestio CapitalLondonGLGlynn Capital ManagementMenlo ParkGRGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checksGRGroveStreetNewtonHOHOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksICICONIQSan FranciscoINIneffable VenturesStamfordINInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2026KAKaleida CapitalSan DiegoKHKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksLALakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checks · since 2024M1M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2019MAMadrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checksMAMarketX VenturesMAMastrySan FranciscoMAMaverick VenturesSan Francisco · $3M – $10M checksMEMech VenturesLas VegasMGMGXAbu Dhabi · since 2025NENearingpoint Venture Partners Inc.TorontoNENext Legacy PartnersPortola ValleyNVNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2024OPOptic Capital$100K – $1M checksOPOptimist VenturesNew YorkOSOssian CapitalMiamiPEPeter Thielsince 2015RERedpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checksRIRiverbend CapitalWashingtonRORosecliff VenturesNew York City · $500K checksSASam Altmansince 2015SASanctor CapitalNew YorkSESequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2026SGSGH CapitalParisSOSoftBank GroupTokyo · since 2025SOSoftBank Vision FundLondonSOSoma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checksSOSound VenturesSanta Monica · since 2026SPSparkLabs KoreaPalo AltoSQSquareOne CapitalMiamiSTStack CapitalTorontoSTStandard CapitalSan FranciscoSTStripesNew YorkSVSV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checksT.T. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025TETemasekSingapore · since 2026THThirdbaseNew YorkTHThrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2025TITiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checks · since 2024TOTouring CapitalSan FranciscoTPTPGSan Francisco · since 2026TYType One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksUNUncorrelated VenturesLas VegasVAValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark CityVAVaranium Capital AdvisorsMumbaiVUVU Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $200K – $1M checksWAWAGMI VenturesWEWealthUnion$10K checksWIWinslow CapitalMinneapolis · since 2026WIWisdom VenturesLos GatosXYXYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checksY Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checksZ-Z-FellowsNew York · $10K checks

Co-founders at OpenAI

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Sam AltmanCo-founder & CEO

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Greg BrockmanCo-founder & President

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Ilya SutskeverCo-founder & Chief Scientist

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Wojciech ZarembaCo-founder

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John SchulmanCo-founder (departed 2024)

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Andrej KarpathyCo-founder

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Trevor BlackwellCo-founder

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Vicki CheungCo-founder

Public positions

He decomposes a problem to its physical constituents, prices those, and treats the gap to the market price as the opportunity — which is how reusable boosters and in-house battery cells both get justified. The corollary is a consistent willingness to enter categories venture capital has written off, on the view that no financing means no competitors.

• 2006 · The Tesla master plan

  Build a low-volume expensive car, use that money to build a mid-volume cheaper one, use that to build a high-volume affordable one, and provide solar power throughout — stated publicly a decade before it was executed.

  One of the few published startup strategies that can be checked against the outcome line by line.

• 2016 · Making humanity multiplanetary

  The purpose of reusable heavy-lift launch is to reduce the cost of moving mass to Mars by orders of magnitude, because that is the only route to a self-sustaining settlement.

  The stated reason SpaceX exists, and the frame every SpaceX decision is justified against.

• 2023 · Founding xAI

  He founded xAI on the argument that frontier AI needed a lab pursuing understanding of the universe rather than product engagement, having left OpenAI's board five years earlier over its direction.

  The stated rationale for entering a market he had helped create and then left.

• 2026 · Space-based compute

  Combining SpaceX and xAI is justified by moving AI training into orbit — constant solar energy and radiative cooling, with Starlink as the mesh.

  The rationale for the largest merger ever recorded.

Prediction record

The 2006 Tesla master plan and the 2011 reusable-booster call both held, the second against near-universal industry scepticism. The robotaxi timelines have been missed repeatedly since 2019, which is the well-documented pattern: the direction has been right far more often than the schedule. The orbital-compute bet behind the xAI merger is open.

• Tesla would work down from a low-volume sports car to a mass-market vehicle funded by the profits of each stage

  Correct

  2006 · Decade

  Roadster, Model S, Model 3 — executed roughly in the stated order, and Tesla became the most valuable car company in the world.

  The timeline slipped by years at nearly every stage, and the company came close to failing more than once.

  tesla.com ↗

• Orbital rockets could be landed and reflown, cutting launch cost by an order of magnitude

  Correct

  2011 · Years

  Falcon 9 first-stage landings became routine from 2015 and SpaceX now conducts the large majority of the world's orbital launches.

  Widely dismissed by the industry at the time.

  en.wikipedia.org ↗

• Tesla would field fully autonomous robotaxis within roughly a year

  Open

  2019 · Year

  Repeatedly restated and repeatedly missed; full autonomy remained unachieved at the stated timelines.

  The most-cited example of his schedule optimism, which is a consistent and well-documented pattern rather than a one-off.

  en.wikipedia.org ↗

• AI training moves to orbit, with solar power and radiative cooling beating terrestrial data centres

  Open

  2026 · Years

  The stated rationale for the SpaceX-xAI merger; no orbital training capacity at scale yet.

  He is the person who priced the merger on this claim.

  cnbc.com ↗