Red Planet Ventures
Red Planet Ventures represents pre-positioned venture capital infrastructure created within the Musk family office network during Musk's DOGE government advisory tenure, illustrating how corporate shell formation can precede and potentially anticipate regulatory and market shifts driven by the principal's own government access.
Red Planet Ventures is a set of three Texas limited liability companies—Red Planet Ventures I, II, and III—formed on February 25, 2025, at the shared mailing address used by Elon Musk’s family office and more than fifteen other Musk-controlled entities 1. The three LLCs were filed by Jared Birchall, Musk’s longtime money manager, on the same day he signed the X.AI Corp Form D for a business combination filing with the SEC, as analysis of SEC filings indicates 2. Their sequential Texas Secretary of State file numbers (0805920034, 0805920052, 0805920058) confirm a single batch filing 3.
The formation date falls exactly 36 days into Musk’s tenure as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which began January 20, 2025, according to analysis of formation timing 2. Despite their venture-fund architecture, as of March 2026—thirteen months after formation—the entities show no SEC filings, no Legal Entity Identifiers, no officers on record, no website, no known investors, and no disclosed investments, as a synthesis of records indicates 4. They are, in effect, dormant shelf companies whose Mars-themed naming echoes Musk’s branding pattern across his corporate network.
Red Planet Ventures is structurally significant not for what it has done but for what it reveals about the infrastructure-creation habits of the Musk family office: pre-positioned corporate shells with investment-fund architecture, formed during a period of government service that, analysis of DOGE actions suggests, gave Musk extensive visibility into federal procurement, regulatory pipelines, and agency restructuring 5.
Corporate Formation and Structure
Three Texas LLCs were filed simultaneously on February 25, 2025: Red Planet Ventures I LLC (SOS #0805920034, Taxpayer ID 32098973491), Red Planet Ventures II LLC (SOS #0805920052, Taxpayer ID 32098973384), and Red Planet Ventures III LLC (SOS #0805920058, Taxpayer ID 32098973327) 1. All three share the mailing address 2110 Ranch Road 620 S, Unit 341886, Lakeway, TX 78734-0277 6. Their registered agent is Registered Agent Solutions Inc at 5301 Southwest Parkway Suite 400, Austin, TX 78735 1.
The I/II/III numbering convention mirrors standard venture capital fund architecture: Entity I typically serves as the general partner or management company, Entity II as the main limited partner fund vehicle, and Entity III as a carried interest or co-investment vehicle, according to analysis of the filing structure 7. This same multi-entity pattern was used in Musk’s Twitter acquisition (X Holdings I, X Holdings II, X Holdings Corp), and examination of both structures suggests a deliberate replication of proven corporate architecture 7. A lateral check of adjacent Texas SOS file numbers found no co-formation cluster at the same zip codes, confirming the three Red Planet entities were filed as an isolated batch 8.
Each entity has exactly one filing with the Texas Secretary of State: the Certificate of Formation dated February 25, 2025 9. No amendments, annual reports, or ownership changes have been filed in the thirteen months since formation. Texas LLC law does not require annual reports, so the absence of follow-on filings is legally unremarkable but provides no additional public data on beneficial ownership 9.
Musk Family Office Network
The PO Box used by all three Red Planet Ventures entities (Unit 341886 at 2110 Ranch Road 620 S, Lakeway, TX) is the same address used by at least fifteen other Musk-controlled entities, including Excession LLC (the Musk family office), Musk Foundation, The Foundation, and numerous operating and holding companies 10. A February 2026 New York Times investigation identified approximately 90 Texas companies in the Musk personal network, with Red Planet Ventures I LLC among those sharing the Lakeway PO Box 11.
Jared Birchall is listed as manager of Red Planet Ventures I LLC per OpenCorporates records and Texas SOS filings 11. Birchall serves as the operational nexus of the entire Musk corporate network: he is president of The Foundation (which received $470 million from Musk Foundation in 2024), Corporate Secretary of X.AI Holdings Corp, CFO of Neuralink Corporation, and head of Excession LLC, according to analysis of SEC filings 2. On the same day he filed the Red Planet Ventures entities, Birchall signed the X.AI Corp February 2025 Form D, indicating this was an administrative batch processing day within the family office 2.
A separate, unrelated entity named Red Planet Ventures LLC was found in Delaware (company #7415573, incorporated April 19, 2023), with a different registered agent (A Registered Agent Inc, Dover, DE) and no connection to the Musk network 12. The Texas entities have no presence in Delaware or Nevada corporate registries 13.
Red Planet Ventures
Regulatory and Financial Footprint
Thirteen months after formation, Red Planet Ventures has left no trace in federal financial or regulatory systems. SEC EDGAR returns zero results for "Red Planet Ventures" in both full-text and company-name searches 14 15 16. No Form D filings exist for any of the three entities, meaning either no securities offering has occurred, the entities are structured to avoid Regulation D notice requirements, or required filings have not been made 2. Birchall’s simultaneous filing of the X.AI Corp Form D on the same day as the Red Planet formation demonstrates that the family office was actively making SEC filings during this period, making the Red Planet absence a deliberate choice rather than an oversight 2.
No Legal Entity Identifier has been registered with GLEIF for any of the three LLCs 17. LEI registration is typically required for entities participating in regulated financial markets such as derivatives trading or securities lending, and its absence is consistent with pre-operational entities or entities operating outside those markets. No federal litigation involving Red Planet Ventures as a named party was found in CourtListener 18. Two Musk-linked cases were found using the shared PO Box address—Tarantino v. Musk (1:25-cv-00335, W.D. Texas) and Sigmon v. Musk (2:23-cv-00757, S.D. West Virginia)—but neither names the Red Planet entities 19.
The domain redplanetventures.com is parked and listed for sale on Afternic, a domain marketplace 20. No branding, team listing, investment thesis, or portfolio disclosure exists online. GDELT news monitoring returned zero relevant coverage, and the entities do not appear in ICIJ offshore leak databases 21 22.
DOGE Timing and Potential Positioning
The formation of Red Planet Ventures 36 days into Musk’s DOGE tenure is the central question surrounding these entities 2. Between January 20, 2025 (DOGE start) and February 25, 2025 (RPV formation), DOGE was engaged in aggressive government restructuring: USAID was dismantled, HHS was reorganized, the Education Department was targeted for downsizing, and 2,300 GSA contracts were terminated on February 24 alone—the day before the Red Planet filing 5. A Public Citizen analysis found that DOGE targeted agencies where Musk had a direct business interest in over 70 percent of cases 5.
The three-fund architecture suggests preparation for a venture capital deployment across multiple investment vintages 7. Sectors undergoing deregulation during this period—healthcare, finance, energy, digital assets, and environmental regulation—are precisely the sectors where new investment opportunities would emerge from reduced regulatory barriers 5. The inference that Red Planet Ventures was positioned to invest in sectors benefiting from DOGE deregulation remains unconfirmed: no investments, investors, or capital commitments have been publicly documented 4.
The synthesis of available evidence characterizes Red Planet Ventures I/II/III as dormant shelf LLCs: Musk/Birchall fund architecture created during DOGE tenure with zero observable activity in thirteen months 4. This is consistent with three interpretations: the entities were parked for future use after Musk’s government service ended, they were created but subsequently abandoned, or they are operating through channels that do not produce public filings. The last possibility—a fund structure avoiding all SEC notice requirements—would be unusual for entities of this apparent scale and sophistication 4.
All Connections
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2 totalRPV I/II/III formed at Musk PO Box 341886, same address as Excession LLC family office and 15+ Musk entities
Birchall listed as manager per OpenCorporates. TX SoS 0805920034.
All Findings
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SEC EDGAR Form D search: zero Form D filings for 'Red Planet Ventures' in EFTS (searched with forms=D filter). No securities offering exemption filings exist for Red Planet Ventures I, II, or III LLCs as of March 2026, 13 months after formation. This means either: (a) no securities have been offered yet to investors, (b) they are using a different exemption (e.g. 4(a)(2) without Form D, or intrastate exemption), or (c) they have not complied with Reg D notice requirement.
GLEIF (Global LEI) search: zero results for 'Red Planet Ventures I', 'Red Planet Ventures II', 'Red Planet Ventures III'. No Legal Entity Identifier registered for any of the three Texas LLCs as of March 2026. LEI registration is typically required for entities participating in regulated financial markets (derivatives, securities lending, etc.). Absence confirms these entities are either: (a) pre-operational, (b) operating outside regulated markets, or (c) structured to avoid mandatory LEI requirements.
redplanetventures.com is a parked/for-sale domain. WebFetch to redplanetventures.com/lander redirects to Afternic (domain marketplace) with a 307 Temporary Redirect. This means no operational web presence exists for Red Planet Ventures I/II/III as of March 2026. The Texas entities have no public-facing website. No branding, team listing, investment thesis, or portfolio disclosure is available online.
ICIJ Offshore Leaks reconciliation API check for 'Red Planet Ventures' returned 5 candidates, all with low confidence scores (14.8 to 32.4). None match Red Planet Ventures I/II/III Texas LLCs: results are unrelated 'Planet'-containing addresses in Saudi Arabia, Gibraltar, and Malta (Sliema). Red Planet Ventures Texas entities have no presence in Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, or other ICIJ leak datasets.
Delaware and Nevada registration check for Red Planet Ventures: Web search for 'Red Planet Ventures Delaware OR Nevada registration OR formation' returned no results pointing to any DE or NV entity. SEC EDGAR company browser (queried via search tool) returns zero hits for 'Red Planet Ventures' as an EDGAR filer. EDGAR full-text search (EFTS) also returned zero results for the name. No Delaware or Nevada incorporation found for any Red Planet Ventures variant associated with Musk. Entities confirmed as Texas-only domicile.
SEC EDGAR exact phrase search: zero hits for 'Red Planet Ventures I LLC' in EFTS full-text index. No CIK registered. No Form D filed as of March 2026. SEC company browser confirms no matching companies for 'Red Planet Ventures' as a filer name.
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RPV shares PO Box with 15+ Musk entities including Excession LLC family office
Red Planet Ventures I/II/III all share the mailing address 2110 Ranch Road 620 S Unit 341886, Lakeway TX 78734. NYT reporting confirms at least 15 Musk companies use this same PO Box, including: Excession LLC (family office), Musk Foundation, The Foundation, and numerous other entities. This address clustering confirms Red Planet Ventures is part of the Musk/Birchall corporate network managed through Excession. The registered agent (Registered Agent Solutions Inc) is a standard Texas corporate filing service.
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CourtListener party search (API 403) and full-text/cases search: zero results for 'Red Planet Ventures' as named party in federal courts. Full-text search and cases search returned 20 noise results with no matching party. CourtListener party API endpoint returned 403 Forbidden. No federal litigation involving Red Planet Ventures I, II, or III as of March 2026, 13 months after formation.
CourtListener cases search for 'PO Box 341886' returned 2 Musk-linked cases: (1) Tarantino v. Musk, 1:25-cv-00335, W.D. Texas, filed 2025-03-03, Nature of suit: 360 P.I. Other, Cause: 18:1030 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Judge: David A. Ezra. Filed 6 days after Red Planet Ventures formation. (2) Sigmon v. Musk, 2:23-cv-00757, S.D. West Virginia, filed 2023-11-22, Nature of suit: 190 Contract Other. Neither case names Red Planet Ventures as a party - address match only indicates Musk's PO Box is in court records.
Red Planet Ventures I, LLC remains ACTIVE in TX as of 2026-03-09 with no officer amendments filed since formation. TX Taxpayer ID: 32098973491, SoS file 0805920034. officerInfo empty. No EIN/FEI on record.
TX Comptroller API entity lookup as of 2026-03-09: sosRegistrationStatus=ACTIVE, rightToTransactTX=ACTIVE, effectiveSosRegistrationDate=02/25/2025, sosFileNumber=0805920034, officerInfo=[]. No amendments or officer filings since initial formation.
No SEC EDGAR filings found for Red Planet Ventures I, II, or III as of 2026-03-09. No Form D (Reg D exemption), no investment advisor registration, no fund filings. Consistent with fund not yet deployed or fund avoiding SEC registration.
EDGAR full-text search for phrase Red Planet Ventures returned 0 hits (timed_out=false, total.value=0). Searched EDGAR company search and full-text search.
As of 2026-03-09 (13 months post-formation), all three Red Planet Ventures entities have exactly one TX SoS filing each: Certificate of Formation dated 2025-02-25. No amendments, annual reports, or ownership changes filed. TX LLC law does not require annual reports, so absence of additional filings is legally consistent but provides no new public officer data.
OpenCorporates filings endpoint for us_tx/0805920034: filings_count=1, one filing: {title: Certificate of Formation, filing_type: Certificate of Formation, date: 2025-02-25}. Same for II and III. TX LLCs do not file mandatory annual reports (unlike corporations), so absence of follow-on filings is expected.
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Red Planet Ventures I, II, III: 3-fund VC structure created 2/25/2025, one month after DOGE launch, at Musk family office address
Three Red Planet Ventures entities all filed on the same day (2/25/2025) at the Musk family office address: (1) Red Planet Ventures I LLC (TX SOS #0805920034), (2) Red Planet Ventures II LLC (TX SOS #0805920052), (3) Red Planet Ventures III LLC (TX SOS #0805920058). All at 2110 Ranch Road 620 S Unit 341886, Lakeway TX 78734. Registered agent: Registered Agent Solutions Inc. Sequential SOS file numbers confirm batch filing. The timing is significant: filed February 25, 2025, approximately one month after the DOGE advisory role began (Jan 20, 2025). This represents new venture capital infrastructure created during Musk's government advisory period. No officer information reported yet (no CPA/SOS filings). The Mars-themed naming follows Musk's pattern (Europa 100 = Jupiter moon).
Red Planet Ventures formed 36 days into DOGE tenure - no SEC Form D filings found
Red Planet Ventures I/II/III were formed on February 25, 2025 - exactly 36 days after Musk began his DOGE advisory role (January 20, 2025). The same date, Birchall signed the X.AI Corp February 2025 Form D (business combination). No SEC Form D filings exist for any Red Planet entity as of March 2026, meaning either: (a) no securities offering has occurred yet, (b) the entities are structured to avoid Form D requirements, or (c) offerings are planned but not yet executed. The I/II/III structure suggests vintage-year venture capital fund series, consistent with a multi-fund investment platform. Zero EDGAR hits for Red Planet Ventures.
DOGE actions between Jan 20-Feb 25 2025 created potential investment opportunities in deregulated sectors
Between Jan 20 2025 (DOGE start) and Feb 25 2025 (RPV formation), DOGE was aggressively restructuring government. Key actions: USAID dismantled, HHS restructured, Education Department targeted, GSA contracts terminated (2,300 on Feb 24 alone). DOGE targeted agencies where Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of cases (Public Citizen analysis). Sectors being deregulated: healthcare, finance, energy, digital assets/crypto, environmental regulation. Formation of three venture capital fund shells (RPV I/II/III) during this exact period raises questions about whether the funds were positioned to invest in sectors benefiting from DOGE deregulation. The I/II/III structure is standard VC vintage-year fund architecture. No investments are publicly documented yet.
GDELT articles search for 'Red Planet Ventures' returned 30 results - all noise (unrelated term fragments). No GDELT articles specifically about Red Planet Ventures I/II/III Texas LLCs. GDELT's rolling 3-month window (Dec 2025 - Mar 2026) shows zero coverage of these entities as a news subject. The Feb 27 2026 NYT investigation of Musk's Texas company network appears in GDELT but without the specific Red Planet Ventures entity name as searchable subject.
NYT investigation (Feb 27, 2026) identified Red Planet Ventures I LLC as one of 15+ Musk entities sharing PO Box 341886 in Austin suburbs. Investigation confirmed ~90 Texas companies in Musk personal network. The three Red Planet Ventures LLCs (I, II, III) were formed by Jared Birchall in late February 2025. Multiple secondary sources (opentools.ai, dnyuz.com, San Antonio Express-News Facebook) confirmed Birchall formation and Twitter acquisition structure parallel. No source identified the fund's purpose, investors, capital, or investments.
Multiple secondary sources reference that the three-entity Red Planet Ventures structure 'mirrors' the LLC architecture Musk used in the Twitter/X acquisition. That acquisition used a similar multi-entity structure (X Holdings I, X Holdings II, X Holdings Corp at close). This is consistent with GP/LP/carry investment fund architecture where: Entity I = General Partner managing entity, Entity II = main LP fund vehicle, Entity III = carried interest or co-invest vehicle. Structure is pre-operational — no investors, no capital, no investments disclosed 13 months after formation.
SYNTHESIS: Red Planet Ventures I/II/III are dormant shelf LLCs — Musk/Birchall fund architecture created during DOGE tenure with zero activity in 13 months. Formed Feb 25 2025 (same day as X.AI Corp Form D — Birchall batch admin day). Triple GP/LP/carry structure at PO Box 341886 (Excession family office). No SEC Form D, no GLEIF LEI, no officers beyond Birchall, no amendments, no litigation, no news coverage beyond NYT Feb 2026 investigation, domain parked. 21 sources probed: zero hits outside TX registry. Investigative significance: entities were created with investment fund architecture during Musk government service but never activated — either (a) parked for future use post-DOGE, (b) abandoned, or (c) operating without required SEC filings. The absence of Form D 13 months post-formation, while Birchall simultaneously filed Form D for X.AI Corp on the same day, suggests deliberate non-filing or no capital deployment.
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Red Planet Ventures I/II/III formed Feb 25, 2025 - sequential Texas LLCs at Musk PO Box
Three LLCs formed simultaneously on February 25, 2025 in Texas. RPV I: SOS 0805920034, taxpayer ID 32098973491. RPV II: SOS 0805920052, taxpayer ID 32098973384. RPV III: SOS 0805920058, taxpayer ID 32098973327. All active, all at 2110 Ranch Road 620 S Unit 341886, Lakeway TX 78734 (Musk PO Box shared with Excession LLC, Musk Foundation, The Foundation, and 12+ other entities). Registered agent: Registered Agent Solutions Inc, 5301 Southwest Pkwy Suite 400, Austin TX 78735. No officer info filed. No FEI/EIN numbers yet assigned. Sequential SOS numbers confirm same-day batch filing.
TX taxpayer IDs confirmed for all three Red Planet Ventures entities: I=32098973491, II=32098973384, III=32098973327. All share mailing address 2110 Ranch Road 620 S Unit 341886, Lakeway TX 78734-0277.
ZIP+4 78734-0277 consistent across all three entities. The 2110 Ranch Road 620 S address is the street address for PO Box 341886 (mailbox service in Lakeway TX). All three ACTIVE.
Separate entity RED PLANET VENTURES LLC found in Delaware (company #7415573, incorporated 2023-04-19) with different registered agent (A Registered Agent Inc, 8 The Green Ste A, Dover DE 19901). No officers listed. Not related to TX Red Planet Ventures I/II/III based on different formation date, agent, and location.
OpenCorporates search for Red Planet Ventures in us_de returned one result: company 7415573, incorporated 2023-04-19, company type=Domestic Limited Liability Company, registered address=Kent DE, agent=A REGISTERED AGENT INC. No filings count. Likely unrelated entity.
Lateral check of TX SoS file numbers adjacent to Red Planet Ventures I (0805920034), II (0805920052), III (0805920058) found no co-formation cluster at zip 78734 or 78735. Adjacent entities are unrelated small businesses at different Texas addresses. The gaps between the three numbers (18 and 6) are consistent with normal daily TX filing volume.
TX Comptroller fileNumber search for numbers 0805920010 through 0805920064 (skipping the three Red Planet numbers) returned entities at diverse TX zip codes with no 78734/78735 addresses and different registered agents. No batch filing pattern detected.
Thriving Capital Ventures LLC (TX SoS 0806036943, formed 05/09/2025) not connected to Red Planet Ventures cluster. Different registered agent (Lawyer Aid Service Inc, 505 West 15th St Austin TX 78701), mailing address 6060 N Central Expy Ste 500 Dallas TX 75206. No shared personnel or addresses.
TX Comptroller entity 32100198111: effectiveSosRegistrationDate=05/09/2025, registeredAgentName=LAWYERS AID SERVICE INC, mailingAddressStreet=6060 N CENTRAL EXPY STE 500, mailingAddressCity=DALLAS, mailingAddressZip=75206. officerInfo=[]. Formed 2.5 months after Red Planet Ventures cluster, different agent, different city.
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