Former Tesla exec births Bay Area automotive unicorn Tekion

A former member of Tesla's executive team who's been making his own push in the automotive industry, is now watching the funding roll in to his company. In fact, former Tesla Chief Information Officer Jay Vijayan, who left Elon Musk's company to start San Ramon-based auto retail SaaS platform Tekion in 2016, is now at the wheel of a bonafide unicorn as its CEO. Tekion announced Wednesday that it has just raised $150 million in Series C funding, bringing its current valuation to more than $1 billion.…