Shivon Zilis
Canadian technology executive and venture capitalist (born 1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shivon Alice Zilis (born February 8, 1986) is a Canadian technology executive and venture capitalist.[2]
Early life and education
Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada to a Punjabi Indian mother and a Canadian father.[3] Zilis graduated from Markham's Unionville High School. She attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 with degrees in economics and philosophy. As a goaltender on Yale's ice hockey team, she became the school's all-time leader in goals-against average.[4]
Career
After graduating from Yale, Zilis started her career at IBM in New York, working in financial technologies in developing countries, especially Peru and Indonesia.[5] From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the founding investors and partner of Bloomberg Beta, funded by Bloomberg L.P., utilizing what she calls "machine intelligence".[6]
From 2017 to 2019, Zilis served as a project director for Tesla, Inc.'s Autopilot product and chip design team.[7]
Zilis served as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink. Zilis met Elon Musk through her non-profit work at OpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023.[8][9]
Zilis joined the board of defense technology company Shield AI in September 2023.[10] She had previously written the company's term sheet for a seed round in 2016 while she was at Bloomberg Beta.[11]
Awards and honors
In 2015, Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of venture capitalists.[12] Zilis was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35.[13]
Personal life
In July 2022, court documents in Travis County, Texas, revealed that Zilis and Elon Musk had twin children, a son and a daughter, in November 2021. The twins were conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF).[14][15][16] According to a court petition to change the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address in Austin.[17] In June 2024, it was reported that she had a third child with Musk.[18][19][20][21] On February 28, 2025, Zilis announced the birth of her fourth child, a son who was conceived via IVF with Musk.[22]
References
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