OpenGPU Ventures
For-Equity investments in Startups building the future of AI and compute
Summary: OpenGPU Ventures is a (For-Profit) Investment Fund for accelerating deployment and growth of early-stage technology-focused University-spinoffs, Labs, Technology-transfers, and Startups. Investing in deep-tech horizontals, as well as vertical application-focus, wherever disruptive nature-inspired technologies can be deployed to solve the world's hardest problems, more efficiently. We turbocharge our portfolio companies through projects that enrich the broader open standards ecosystems, leveraging the larger global connections. We help connect innovators, partners, and early-adopter-customers, in the public and private sectors, where there isare ways to feeds back into accelerating interoperability, and more prolific adoption.
Background: Hardware innovations are, themselves, often 'harder'. Hardware technologies, semiconductors, materials sciences, and systems engineering, have typically been considered amongst the most complex1 and risky investments. They can involve taking huge "bets", with years-long timelines, enormous wafer-start costs for the chip, large deployment & enabling efforts, and long time-frames for connecting need, efficacy, adoption and proliferation. Point investments can result in losses or acquisitions; and sometimes larger visions are the right ones, but take a decade to ignite, and another to reach fruition (e.g. AI).
Just as there are large/long-term investments required for hardware, there are often no good short-term fixes to address immediate needs, aand usually the worse just when solution urgency is nearest. Given many hardware investors (e.g. in Silicon Valley) had long-since turned their focus and investment, into: shorter return-cycle SaaS, Software, and Gig-economy App investments – which are now being disrupted2 - then, how do we get the "mojo" back in the harder innovations … whether in Silicon Valley, Silicon Hills, or elsewhere?
Realizing the focus of investors, also requires mapping out multiple routes to bring about the kinds of returns-on-investment, that both private investors and public-sector, have come to expect. OpenGPU Ventures starts with one self-evident fact: that after the magnitudes-longer timescales - in nature - there is much to learn from nature's return-on-investment(s). And, with careful consideration and adaptation, some of these insights, have near & long-term applicable benefits in practice. The OpenGPU Venture's Investment Thesis is fundamentally based on accelerating nature-inspired innovations, with orders-of-magnitude larger efficiency & scalability potential (as compared to today's state-of the art). And, core to the Thesis of OpenGPU Ventures, is to “de-risk” singular big-”bets”, with a broader set of positions (across the matrix of horizontal technologies, applications verticals, with different enablers), such that whether or not one element succeeds, the combined contribution back into open standards can itself be a 'virtuous cycle' that will inevitably: be the tide that raises all boats.
Note: OpenGPU Ventures follows industry-standard SEC-compliance practices, with an RIA managed Fund.
