We invest in bold category redefining companies and the brave dreams of the passionate entrepreneurs that forge positive new paths into the future.
We look for products or services enabled by new radical breakthrough technologies; or the things that will become the next technological megatrends.
We seek incredibly intelligent, passionate, tenacious, and "unreasonable" founders with amazing groundbreaking products that can reach mass scale globally.
We also believe there are no rules, so if you are an outlier that can make a massive positive impact, please do get in touch.
New breakthroughs, inventions or discoveries in science or technology that will enable entirely new classes of valuable products or services.
New products or services that are now possible due to a variety of enabling technological factors that you believe will scale into new global mass markets.
Exponential growth of users or revenue due to organic viral spread of your product across a network, usually simultaneously creating strong network effects.
Our founder's AR/VR smart-glasses startup, of which he was Founder, CEO and it's first and it's biggest investor, becomes Snapchat's earliest aquisition, affording him a major exit, as well as some immediate liquidity. He decides to begin investing in more new startups that seem just as audacious (or more) as his was when he was getting started. Snapchat went on to become one of the biggest tech IPO's of that decade.
Immediately after the acquisition of Vergence Labs, the very next investment made on behalf of Hyperspeed, was Rigetti Quantum Computing's early seed round to support thier mission building the world's most powerful computer. Since then, Rigetti's world-class team has raised over $100+ Million USD in follow-on financings and have since IPO'ed.
The next series of investments focused on biotechnology, regenerative bioengineering and genetic engineering (Caribou). Caribou Biosciences' founder, Jennifer Doudna, discovered the revolutionary CRISPR/CAS9 mechanism allowing the engineering of any genome in any way. The profound implications of this technology was so massive we simply had to invest. Years later after our investment, Jennifer went on to win the Nobel Prize for her work and Caribou has since IPO'ed.
Another series of investments focused on the next wave of financial technology, decentralized finance and crypto. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), as well as CoinCircle and Orchid Labs' Orchid were our first early investments in this space, and we've since made many more.
Next, we are focused on the transformative wave of AI, and the race towards AGI. We have been investing in AI startups since 2015. So far we have invested in Palantir in 2015 (IPO'ed 2018, we still hold the stock), Anthropic, Cerebras, Groq, xAI and many more.
We're now better capitalized than ever, and have since made many more investments. We are continuously looking for great companies that defy convention, making the impossible become possible. The future is amazing!
As an entreprenuer Erick has helped create three startups that have had successful exits. At Erick's last startup, where he was the founder, CEO and the largest investor, he had the vision to build smart glasses and an advanced VR/AR visor in 2010 prior to almost any other startup, including well before Facebook or Google. Erick works hard every day to position himself at the precipice of new waves of technological change and the companies emerging from them. He loves investing in the bold dreams of smart, daring entreprenuers fixated on executing huge ideas that will make massive impacts in the world -- because these are the types of companies he also loves to build. Find more about Erick at erickmiller.com