Sigil Wen

Founder of Conway | Thiel Fellow | Extraordinary.com Chairman | web4.ai | Angel Investor

San Francisco, California, United States

About

sigilwen.ca - I help the world's extraordinary talent come to America and actively invest in technology startups.

Experience

  • Founder & CEO at Conway Research
    Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    self-improving AI with write access to the world

  • Extraordinary.com (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Executive Chairman
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

      Helping the world's best talent come to America.

    • Founder & CEO
      Nov 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Solving the biggest problem for the worlds best talent. As CEO, I grew Extraordinary to 7 figure revenue & profitability. Extraordinary powers Ramp, Cognition, Lovable, a16z, Founders Fund, Zapier, and other top technology companies across AI, Silicon, Hardware, Longevity, Drones, Defence, Consumer, and more. Successfully promoted Extraordinary's killer operator (Harvard Law JD, Meta) to CEO and I transitioned to the Executive Chairman.

  • Thiel Fellow at The Thiel Foundation
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Prior classes include founders of Ethereum, Figma, Mercor, OYO and have founded companies or projects collectively worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

  • Member at Spearhead
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Investing in extraordinary technology founders, training with Naval Ravikant and Jeff Fagnan

  • Airchat (Permanent Full-time · 2 yrs 2 mos)
    • Advisor
      Aug 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Acquired by the largest exchange on Solana

    • Sr AI Engineer
      Apr 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Built the Viral Airchat invites. Recruited and hired engineering team from MIT, Apple, AirBnB, Twitter, Waterloo. Productionized SOTA AI models (speech2text, text2speech, translation, diffusion models, llms). Built microservices backend using spring boot, terraform, protocol buffers and apache pulsar. Shipped invites, and AI features on iOS with Swift

    • Founding Engineer
      Feb 2023 - Apr 2023 · 3 mos