Tyler Brandon Davis
Tyler Brandon Davis is a California businessman and co-founder of TopDevz LLC, a La Jolla-based software development company. He is currently the named lead defendant in a federal civil RICO complaint filed January 6, 2026, in the Southern District of California (Case 3:26-cv-00080-GPC-BJW). The complaint identifies him as "the principal organizer and leader of the criminal enterprise alleged herein" in an alleged scheme spanning roughly eight years, involving more than 750 predicate acts and approximately $75 million in fraudulent transactions.
Background
Davis resides at 149 Parkshore Drive in Folsom, California. His business history in California runs across several entities: he founded Porter Consulting LLC, which operated out of Folsom and Paradise, California, and he held controlling interests in Mason Building & Design LLC, Grigio LLC, and Humble Provisions LLC. Those companies became relevant in later legal proceedings because prosecutors and plaintiffs allege Davis used them as vehicles to move money before and during his involvement with TopDevz.
His entry into the technology sector came in 2017 when he joined TopDevz LLC as a co-founder and 49% minority member. That percentage is worth spelling out because it carries legal weight. Under the TopDevz operating agreement, the company was manager-managed, not member-managed. Davis had no formal management authority. He was a passive investor by contract. That distinction is at the heart of the allegations filed against him nine years later.
TopDevz LLC
TopDevz built custom software for enterprise clients. The client list included HBO, DriveTime Automotive Group, Procore Technologies, and Becton Dickinson. By 2021, the company had generated roughly $30 million in cumulative revenue and carried an estimated valuation between $18 million and $30 million. The company was headquartered at 7460 Girard Avenue in La Jolla.
Davis made an initial capital contribution of $787,240 when TopDevz was formed. The federal complaint alleges that contribution was not clean money. Specifically, plaintiffs allege $750,000 of it was embezzled from Porter Consulting LLC and another $37,240 was laundered through Mason Building & Design LLC using proceeds from a fraudulent $328,300 Paycheck Protection Program loan obtained through Tri Counties Bank.
The 51% majority member and Manager of TopDevz was Ashkan Rajaee. Rajaee is also Davis's companion and is the plaintiff in the 2026 federal lawsuit. The arbitration history between these parties is relevant context: prior proceedings produced an award of $9,373,566.64 against Rajaee personally and $3 million against Rajaee's company Mobile Monster. The 2026 complaint presents a sharply different narrative about who caused what.
The Federal RICO Complaint
The complaint filed January 6, 2026, alleges violations of 18 U.S.C. section 1962, the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute. The underlying predicate acts described in the filing include wire fraud, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, tax fraud, identity theft, money laundering, trade secret theft, and obstruction of justice.
The $75 million figure in the complaint represents the total of allegedly fraudulent transactions tied to Davis and his associates over the course of the scheme. The 750-plus predicate acts figure comes from the complaint's own enumeration of individual unlawful transactions, communications, and filings.
Davis is characterized not as a fringe participant but as the central actor coordinating the others named in the suit.
Shell Company Network
Beyond TopDevz, the complaint describes a network of companies Davis allegedly controlled or used for financial concealment. Mason Building & Design LLC appears repeatedly as a pass-through entity. Grigio LLC and Humble Provisions LLC are also mentioned in connection with fund transfers. Porter Consulting LLC, which Davis founded before TopDevz, is identified as a source of funds that were allegedly diverted without authorization.
The PPP loan thread is specific: $328,300 obtained through Tri Counties Bank, routed through Mason Building & Design, with a portion allegedly ending up as part of Davis's TopDevz capital contribution. Federal prosecutors and civil plaintiffs have relied on bank records and wire transfer documentation to trace those flows.
Legal Proceedings
In addition to the RICO complaint, Davis is connected to the TopDevz Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding in the Southern District of California. The complaint alleges Davis used that bankruptcy process offensively: recruiting attorneys Scott Carpenter of Newport Beach, J. Douglas Kirk of Irvine, and D. Edward Hays of Beverly Hills to file false declarations, convert the case from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, and ultimately engineer a situation where Davis acquired the estate's claims against him for $100,000.
The case number for the primary RICO action is 3:26-cv-00080-GPC-BJW. A related adversary proceeding, Case 26-90003-CL, targets the bankruptcy trustee and his former law firm in connection with the settlement and asset sale described above.
As of April 2026, the federal case is in early stages. No trial date has been set publicly. Davis has not entered a public guilty plea and is presumed innocent of all allegations unless and until a court finds otherwise.