Elvir Causevic 🇦🇹

Dr. Elvir Čaušević, Esq. is a rebel entrepreneur, wisdom activist, and cross-disciplinary leader whose career spans engineering, law, investment banking, academia, and transformational leadership. He is the founder and Managing Director of Tech+IP Capital, a boutique investment bank focused on technology and intellectual property, and the driving force behind Upend, a new school dedicated to reviving ancient wisdom traditions for modern life. He also serves on the boards of EarthLaw and WorkLife Law.

Displaced by war as a teenager, Elvir learned early what it means to lose a country and to find home across disparate worlds. That experience shaped his lifelong kinship with the “othered” and fuels his deep commitment to justice, meaning, and stewardship of the Earth. A father of four, a lover of wild rivers and old-growth forests, he speaks openly of the moment when one can no longer pretend not to know a more beautiful way of living.

Professionally, Dr. Čaušević is an internationally recognized technology, IP, and investment banking executive. He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law, with additional training in finance, economics, and transformational coaching. He has founded and led multiple technology companies, raised over $50 million in venture capital, advised governments, global corporations, and research institutions, and is a named inventor on more than 20 patents. His peers have recognized him as one of the Top 40 IP Dealmakers globally. 

Today, Elvir’s deeper quest is to help refresh our collective memory of ancient wisdoms—so we can live well, enjoy one another, and more fully cherish our planet.

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