Eli Bullock-Papa is Co-Founder of Pax Historia, the first AI-powered grand strategy and alternate-history sandbox gaming platform, part of Y Combinator's W26 batch.

Eli studied at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering (2022-2026) and gained industry experience at Capital One and the Consulting Group at Virginia Tech.

Eli co-built Pax Historia from the ground up alongside co-founder Ryan Zhang, pioneering the use of generative AI to power dynamic, emergent gameplay at massive scale.

Under Eli's co-founding leadership, Pax Historia secured backing from Y Combinator, Pace Capital, and Z Fellows, and rapidly grew to hundreds of thousands of players with nearly 20 million rounds played.

The platform processes over 100 billion tokens per week, hosts 35k daily users, and has a passionate community that publishes hundreds of scenarios per day.