#VentureCapital
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- Alan Patricof New York venture capitalist who founded Patricof & Co. Ventures, later Apax Partners, the firm whose 53rd Street Ventures fund invested in INSLAW about 1982.
- Alex Klokus Venture investor and former chief executive of Futurism, managing member with Alexander Scaramucci of the SALT Fund adviser, and authorized member of ENNEA LLC, the owner of the SKYWATCHER trademark application.
- Alexander Scaramucci Venture investor, co-managing member of SALT Fund Management LLC with Alex Klokus and managing member of the general partner of the Solari Capital funds, formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence under Peter Diamandis; son of Anthony Scaramucci.
- Ben Horowitz Cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and former chief executive of Loudcloud and Opsware, whose family foundation gave 7,255,132 dollars to the Las Vegas police foundation and who funded crypto, AI and Trump super PACs.
- Boris Nikolic Croatian-trained immunologist and biotech investor, Bill Gates's science adviser from 2009 to 2014, who linked Gates to Jeffrey Epstein and was named backup executor in Epstein's final will.
- Chamath Palihapitiya Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist who ran Facebook's user-growth team, founded Social Capital, sponsored the Social Capital Hedosophia SPACs that took Virgin Galactic, Opendoor, Clover Health, and SoFi public, and cohosts the All-In Podcast.
- Divesh Makan Former Goldman Sachs broker who met Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, heads the investment adviser ICONIQ Capital, and sits as a director of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna's Good Ventures Foundation.
- Keith Rabois American lawyer and venture capitalist, former PayPal and Square executive, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund partner, Opendoor co-founder and chairman, Republican donor, and husband of Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg.
- Laurance Rockefeller Son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., chief stockholder of Eastern Air Lines, venture investor, conservation commissioner, and from 1993 to 1996 petitioner to the Clinton White House on UFO declassification.
- Luke Nosek PayPal co-founder, Founders Fund co-founder and Gigafund managing partner, a SpaceX director since July 2008 whose 2026 prospectus lists 32,987,360 shares, 2,381,000 pledged against personal debt.
- Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen is the Netscape cofounder and venture capitalist behind Andreessen Horowitz who became the leading patron of effective accelerationism, authored the 2023 Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and helped lead the Silicon Valley turn toward Donald Trump in 2024.
- Masha Drokova Former Nashi commissar in Moscow, founder of the San Francisco fund Day One Ventures, and a correspondent of Jeffrey Epstein from March 2017 to June 2019 who arranged press contacts and introductions.
- Nicole Junkermann German investor and founder of NJF Holdings who co-invested with Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak in Carbyne, sat on a UK health technology advisory board, and lost a Lancaster University post in 2026.
- Peter Diamandis Founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, described in his biographies as co-founder of Singularity University, BOLD Capital Partners and Human Longevity; director of Planetary Resources and Celularity; emailed by Epstein's office in 2013.
- Roelof Botha South African-born actuary and venture capitalist, PayPal chief financial officer at its 2002 offering, Sequoia Capital partner from 2003 and senior steward from 2022 to 2025, and SpaceX director from June 2026.
- Scott Belsky Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Behance, sold it to Adobe in 2012 and rose to Adobe chief strategy officer, invested early in Uber, Pinterest, and Warby Parker, and became a partner at the film studio A24 in 2025.
Organizations (14)
- 53rd Street Ventures New York venture fund, managed first by Patricof and Company and from 1984 by Tessler and Cloherty, that put 100,000 dollars into INSLAW in 1982 and whose managers Bill Hamilton accused of pressing him to surrender voting control in December 1984.
- Andreessen Horowitz Venture firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, a registered investment adviser from 2019, whose American Dynamism fund invests in defense and whose partner Scott Kupor was named to head OPM.
- Enigma Labs Venture-funded UAP sightings app company whose founder Alex Smith was named by Fortune in July 2022 and whose correspondence with Pentagon officials from May to October 2022 was released under FOIA case 23-F-0711.
- Founders Fund Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, whose early investments in Facebook, SpaceX, Airbnb, Stripe, Palantir Technologies, and Anduril Industries made it the financial vehicle of the Thiel commercial network.
- Hambro International Equity Partners Boston venture firm that invested about 400,000 dollars in INSLAW in 1983 as lead investor, placing its partner Richard D'Amore on the board, and that Bill Hamilton said joined 53rd Street Ventures in threatening to withhold financing unless he ceded voting control.
- ICONIQ Capital Investment adviser run by Divesh Makan since 2011, built on managing Mark Zuckerberg's money, which advises billionaire families and runs private funds, with about 117.5 billion dollars under management in 2025.
- In-Q-Tel Nonprofit venture capital firm created by the CIA in 1999 to buy into technology startups with public money, which has made more than 800 investments, leaves many unannounced, and pays its founding sponsor George Tenet as a trustee.
- Patricof and Company New York venture capital firm, formally Allen Patricof and Associates, that managed the 53rd Street Ventures fund and through it made a 100,000-dollar investment in INSLAW about 1982; the firm where Patricia Cloherty worked before and after her government service.
- Safe Superintelligence Safe Superintelligence is the AI lab Ilya Sutskever cofounded in June 2024 with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, built to pursue a single safe-superintelligence goal with no commercial product, which raised 1 billion dollars at a 5-billion valuation and later 2 billion at a 32-billion valuation before Meta poached Gross and Sutskever became chief executive.
- SALT Fund Management LLC Exempt reporting investment adviser (CRD 316587) managing six private funds with 132,930,715 dollars in assets, owned by Alexander Scaramucci and Alex Klokus; named in FTX bankruptcy filings as creditor-matrix contact and interested party.
- Sequoia Capital Menlo Park venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972, early investor in Apple, Cisco, PayPal, Square and FTX, which separated from its China and India affiliates in 2023 and 2024.
- Thinking Machines Lab Thinking Machines Lab is the AI research company Mira Murati founded in 2025 with a team drawn heavily from OpenAI, including John Schulman, Barret Zoph, and adviser Bob McGrew, which raised a roughly 2-billion-dollar seed round at a 12-billion valuation reported as one of the largest seed rounds ever.
- Valar Ventures Valar Ventures is a New York venture capital firm set up by Peter Thiel in 2010; Jeffrey Epstein's Southern Trust Company committed 40 million dollars to two of its funds in 2015 and 2016.
- Y Combinator Startup investor founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell, whose research affiliate shared officers and a lender with OpenAI and whose federal PAC registered in 2025.
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- Silicon Valley The technology district of the southern San Francisco Bay, in the vault the home ground of the PayPal Mafia, the Thiel network's courtship of the Pentagon and the presidency, and the money behind rationalism, longevity and accelerationism.
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