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Tlon Corporation‌‌​‌‍​‍‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‍​‌‍‌

Curtis Yarvin's company founded in 2013 to develop the Urbit computing platform
Tracked Curtis Yarvin's company founded in 2013 to develop the Urbit computing platform · 6 documented connections
Facts on record16
Connections mapped6
Sources cited14
🧠 Cognitive harm via shared boards / co-investments
Inferential confidence
Tracked platforms owned by entities this person sits on a board with, founded with, or co-invested in.
1 documented harm · Documented
via Peter Thiel (investor)
Rumble
40
1 documented harm · Moderate
via Peter Thiel (investor)
Inferred path: each card shows the connecting entity. See full methodology →
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
PATTERN company → [investor] → company 21× PATTERN person → [investor] → company 14× PATTERN company → [investor] → person 14× PATTERN company → [co-founder] → person 12× PATTERN person → [co-founder] → company 12×
Connection Map
Key Connections
Entity #22
investment
Founders Fund provided $1.1 million funding to Tlon
Entity #14
founder_company
Yarvin co-founded Tlon in 2013, left in 2019, returned in 2024
Entity #293
founder_company
Burnham co-founded Tlon in 2013
Entity #292
co-founder/current controller
Co-founded with Yarvin in 2013, gained exclusive control in 2019
Entity #1
investor
Invested in Tlon through Founders Fund, gave $100,000 to co-founder John Burnham in 2011
Entity #120
investor
Co-invested $1.1 million with Founders Fund in Tlon Corporation
Facts (16)
Data Freshness
Fresh Last update: 14d ago · Avg age: 436d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (4)
These facts have been cross-referenced and confirmed against their source material.
Verified Pending Review [v0.2.0_PATCH3_TLON_CLARIFICATION] Tlon Corporation is a software company unaffiliated with the political writings of Curtis Yarv‌‌​‌‍​‍‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‍​‌‍‌in (Mencius Moldbug). Earlier facts conflating the two were retracted on 2026-04-18 due to substring-match disambiguation failure.
Added: 18 Apr 2026
Verified Pending Review Tlon Corporation owns approximately half of ‌‌​‌‍​‍‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‍​‌‍‌the entire address-space on the Urbit network
Added: 08 Apr 2026
Verified Pending Review Tlon Corporation co-founded by Curtis Ya‌‌​‌‍​‍‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‍​‌‍‌rvin, Galen Wolfe-Pauly, and John Burnham
Date: 2013-01-01 Added: 08 Apr 2026
Verified Pending Review Tlon Corporation is the corporate vehicle of the open-source Urbit software stack and was founded by Curtis Yarvin
Date: 2013-01-01 Added: 08 Apr 2026
Raw Filing Records (6) — unsourced metadata
Pending Review Tlon Corporation is headquartered at 2325 3RD STREET SUITE 428 SAN FRANCISCO 94107
Added: 08 Apr 2026
Pending Review Tlon Corporation's CIK number is 0001727669
Added: 08 Apr 2026
Pending Review Tlon Corporation raised $20,232,601 from 29 investors on March 29, 2018
Date: 2018-03-29 Added: 08 Apr 2026
Pending Review Tlon Corporation named after Jorge Luis Borges short story 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'
Added: 08 Apr 2026
Pending Review Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz invested $1.1 million in Tlon Corporation
Added: 08 Apr 2026
Pending Review Tlon received $1.1 million in funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz
Added: 08 Apr 2026
All Connections (6)
Entity #22
investment, investor confirmed
Founders Fund provided $1.1 million funding to Tlon · Joint investment with Andreessen Horowitz totaling $1.1 million
Entity #14
founder_company, co-founder confirmed
Yarvin co-founded Tlon in 2013, left in 2019, returned in 2024 · Co-founded Tlon Corporation in 2013 to develop Urbit
Entity #293
founder_company, co-founder confirmed
Burnham co-founded Tlon in 2013 · Co-founded Tlon Corporation with Yarvin and Wolfe-Pauly
Entity #292
co-founder/current controller confirmed
Co-founded with Yarvin in 2013, gained exclusive control in 2019
Entity #1
investor confirmed
Invested in Tlon through Founders Fund, gave $100,000 to co-founder John Burnham in 2011
Entity #120
investor confirmed
Co-invested $1.1 million with Founders Fund in Tlon Corporation
Sources (14)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Tlon Corporation — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Tlon Corporation — Court records (no results) court_document Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Tlon Corporation — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Tlon Corporation — Corporate registrations (no results) government_disclosure Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Tlon Corporation — USASpending contracts (no results) contract Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Tlon Corporation — SEC filings (no results) sec_filing Processed
2026-04-18 UNVERIFIED v0.2.0 PATCH 3 cascade replacement (v0.2.0_PATCH3_TLON_CLARIFICATION) manual_correction Processed
2013-01-01 ↗ Crunchbase listing shows three founders web_search Processed
↗ Wikipedia and Crunchbase web_search Processed
↗ Wikipedia article on Urbit platform web_search Processed