# Gleb Chuvpilo

> Gleb Chuvpilo is an American serial entrepreneur, engineer, and venture investor who is co-founder and CEO of Thor Dynamics, the maker of Laser Armor, an AI-driven directed-energy system built to detect, track, and burn drone swarms out of the sky within seconds from a kilometer away. A graduate of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Wharton School, he was an early Palantir engineer, traded quant strategies at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, invested alongside Peter Thiel at Thiel Macro, and co-founded startups including Authy (Y Combinator 2012, acquired by Twilio), Ride, and Pager. He also runs deep-tech VC firm Thundermark Capital and is known in AI circles for his annual AI Research Rankings analyzing publication output at NeurIPS and ICML.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Thor Dynamics
- **Organizations:** Thor Dynamics, Thundermark Capital, Authy, Ride, Pager, Palantir, Thiel Macro, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, MIT delta v
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CSAIL), MBA, Finance and Strategic Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Financial Technology Program, MIT Sloan School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded Authy, a Y Combinator 2012 company acquired by Twilio, Co-founded Ride (acquired by Enterprise) and Pager, Early engineer at Palantir Technologies

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Published conference work (ICPP) during MIT CSAIL graduate research
- **early career** — Quantitative trader at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs
- **—** — Investor at Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro global macro hedge fund
- **—** — Early engineer at Palantir Technologies
- **2012** — Co-founded Authy (Y Combinator class of 2012; later acquired by Twilio)
- **—** — Co-founded Ride (funded by TPG Growth; acquired by Enterprise)
- **—** — Co-founded Pager (funded by NEA and Lux)
- **—** — Founded and runs Thundermark Capital, a deep-tech venture firm
- **2019** — Began publishing annual AI Research Rankings analyzing NeurIPS and ICML output
- **2025-01** — Thor Dynamics unveiled Laser Armor counter-drone defense system
- **2025-05** — Thor Dynamics raised a seed round (reported ~$7.8M-$8.3M) for directed-energy product development
- **2025** — Thor Dynamics joined NVIDIA Inception and deepened AI partnership using Isaac Sim/Lab and Jetson
- **2025-11** — Presented Thor Dynamics at Slush 2025 in Helsinki

## Achievements

- Co-founded Authy, a Y Combinator 2012 company acquired by Twilio
- Co-founded Ride (acquired by Enterprise) and Pager
- Early engineer at Palantir Technologies
- Invented and commercialized Laser Armor, a 20kW-class AI directed-energy counter-drone system
- Raised seed funding for Thor Dynamics in 2025 and joined NVIDIA Inception
- Authored the widely cited annual AI Research Rankings (organizational publication index at NeurIPS/ICML)
- Board member of MIT delta v educational accelerator
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP)

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Presented Thor Dynamics at Slush 2025 in Helsinki, pitching speed-of-light counter-swarm defense.
- **2025** — Deepened AI partnership with NVIDIA via Inception, using Isaac Sim/Lab for reinforcement learning and Jetson for edge AI.
- **2025-05** — Thor Dynamics closed a seed round to advance Laser Armor product development.
- **2025-01** — Unveiled Laser Armor, a 20kW-class AI counter-drone directed-energy system.

## Links

- Website: https://glebchuvpilo.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuvpilo/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/chuvpilo
- GitHub: https://github.com/chuvpilo
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AtEVKkt01s
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuvpilo/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chuvpilo

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