Mission

Accelerate the Future

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.

Radical Breakthrough Technology

New breakthroughs, inventions or discoveries in science or technology that will enable entirely new classes of valuable products or services.

Emerging Technological Megatrends

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 Networked Growth

Exponential growth of users or revenue due to organic viral spread of your product across a network, usually simultaneously creating strong network effects.

Portfolio

Companies

Just a few highlights from our past and present portfolio of investments.

History

Track Record

We are still at the beginning.

  1. 2014

    Vergence Labs Acquired

    Our founder's AR/VR smart-glasses startup, of which he was Founder, CEO and its first and its biggest investor, becomes Snapchat's earliest acquisition, 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 IPOs of the decade.

  2. Next-Gen Computing Investments

    Quantum & AI Computing

    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 their 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.

  3. Biotech Investments

    CRISPR/CAS9 & Biosciences

    The next series of investments focused on biotechnology, regenerative bioengineering, longevity 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.

  4. Blockchain Investments

    Crypto & Decentralized Finance

    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.

  5. Artificial Intelligence Investments

    Robotics, Hardware & AGI

    Another series of investments 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.

  6. We've grown our fund!

    ...and are on the look out for the next great revolutionary companies!

    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!

Team

Our Founder

Investor. Entrepreneur. Rebel. Troublemaker.

Erick Miller

Erick Miller

Founder, Managing Director

As an entrepreneur 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 entrepreneurs 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

Contact

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"Most people never ask. And that's what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta ask." ~Steve Jobs