# David Scalzo Venture capitalist and co-investor in [[Clearview AI]] alongside [[Peter Thiel]] and [[Hal Lambert]]. Scalzo's investment in the controversial facial recognition company places him in the Thiel surveillance investment orbit. ## Significance Scalzo is notable primarily as part of the Clearview AI investor cohort. The small, ideologically aligned investor group behind Clearview — Thiel (libertarian tech billionaire), Lambert (MAGA ETF founder), and Scalzo — suggests the company was understood from inception as a politically positioned venture rather than a neutral technology startup. ## See Also - [[Clearview AI]] - [[Peter Thiel]] - [[Hal Lambert]]