Elon Musk

Angel Investor·Austin, Texas, USA·N/A (personal capital)

Elon Musk is an active angel investor and backer of technology ventures beyond his operating companies. His notable investments include DeepMind (prior to its acquisition by Google), Stripe in its early funding rounds, and The Boring Company, which he also co-founded. He provided early backing to OpenAI as a founding donor before departing its board. Musk has also invested in Neuralink and xAI. His investment activity tends to focus on artificial intelligence, infrastructure and frontier technology sectors.

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Artificial IntelligenceNeurotechnologyInfrastructureSpaceEnergy

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DeepMind

Hiring

AI Research·Acquired

Google DeepMind is an AI research laboratory focused on building artificial general intelligence. Founded in London in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman, the company was acquired by Google in 2014 for approximately $660M. DeepMind pioneered breakthroughs including AlphaGo, the first program to defeat a world champion at Go, and AlphaFold, which solved the 50-year-old protein folding problem and has been used by over two million researchers worldwide. The lab remains headquartered in London with a large UK engineering presence and continues to push the boundaries of reinforcement learning, large language models, and scientific AI.