Ben Horowitz was the mystery billionaire who donated $2,700,000 to Las Vegas police so they could deploy 10 Tesla Cybertrucks

Earlier this year, a mystery figure donated $2,700,000 to fund 10 Tesla Cybertruck patrol vehicles for the Las Vegas police, and it turns out that entrepreneur and author Ben Horowitz has been unmasked as the billionaire behind it.

Despite sales of the Cybertruck not being quite what Tesla imagined, the futuristic truck has begun to apply itself in different services.

Namely, the police, as their armor is an attractive prospect for the forces, especially in combating gunfire.

But after being deployed by the Las Vegas police for the majority of 2025, the mystery donor has been reported to be Ben Horowitz and his wife, Felicia.

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Ben Horowitz revealed as Las Vegas police’s mysetry Cybertruck donor

The mystery donation occurred back in February of this year, when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department revealed that, “They came out of a very generous donation from an individual.”

It’s certainly a bonus for the force, as previous attempts at getting these expensive armored vehicles into the police have been met with disgruntlement from taxpayers.

But this ‘individual’ has now been reported to be a Silicon Valley venture capitalist named Ben Horowitz.

This isn’t his first donation to the Las Vegas police either, as he previously spent over $8M on drones and continued to invest in license plate readers.

The LVMPD Clark County Sheriff, Kevin McMahill, said the Tesla Cybertruck fleet is the ‘future of policing’.

“I will tell you, we want these things because the cops inside will be safe no matter what,” Sheriff McMahill said.

“These stop bullets.”

The police car of the future

Elon Musk always had one eye on getting the Tesla Cybertruck into the safety domain, hence its armored exterior and bulletproof glass.

But so far, it’s been a mixed bag of results for the company.

The only military application for the vehicles, at the moment, is that they serve as target practice for the US Army’s ballistic missiles.

However, they are beginning to be deployed as police vehicles around the world, too.

Dubai added a modified Tesla Cybertruck to its fleet as soon as they came out, adding to an already-bustling array of support vehicles.

It took a year for America to adopt one, but this was achieved by the Irvine Police to combat its ‘DARE’ initiative (Drug Abuse Resistance Education).

The armored trucks are now much more common in police forces, and their strength will be on full display at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Now circulating the roads of Las Vegas, Ben Horowitz was paraphrased by County Sheriff McMahill in saying that he wanted to make sure Sin City didn’t ‘become California, when it comes to crime’.

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