Shivon Zilis

Shivon Alice Zilis (born 8 February 1986) is a Canadian technology executive and venture capitalist.

Early life and education
Shivon Alice Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada on 8 February 1986 to Sharda N., a Punjabi Indian, and Richard Zilis, a white Canadian. Zilis graduated from Markham's Unionville High School. She attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 with degrees in economics and philosophy. She played on Yale's ice hockey team as a goaltender, and is the school's all-time leader in goals-against average.

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. 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".

In 2015, Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of venture capitalists.

From 2017 to 2019, she served as a project director for Tesla, Inc.'s Autopilot product and chip design team.

She was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35.

Zilis serves 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.

Personal life
In July 2022, court documents in Travis County, Texas, revealed that Zilis and Elon Musk had twin children in November 2021. The twins were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF). According to court documents to register the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address in Austin. In June 2024, it was reported that she had a third child with Musk.