Ajay Royan cofounded Mithril and heads the firm as its managing general partner. He and Peter Thiel constitute the firm’s investment committee. At Mithril, Ajay has led investments in innovative companies located both within Silicon Valley and around the world. He serves on many of these companies’ boards, including C2FO, AppDirect, Adimab, and Auris, helping them successfully navigate high-growth periods by working with founders on competitive and organizational strategy, as well as macro trends. Before forming Mithril, Ajay was a managing director and senior investor at Clarium Capital Management, where he led unlevered growth investments and was a member of the core team that grew the firm into a multi-billion dollar fund. Ajay began his career at Braxton Associates, a unit of Deloitte, where he specialized in corporate strategy.
Ajay serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was elected to the Presidents’ Circle of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Ajay frequently advocates for entrepreneurship and innovation at technology and finance events, as well as public forums such as Bloomberg, CNBC, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He has been a guest lecturer on macro investing at Yale University, is a charter member of the C100, and has served as a participant in the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Global Markets and as one of the Churchill Club’s Tech Trends Experts.
Ajay grew up in India, Abu Dhabi, and Canada. He was educated at Yale University.