"A venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab. Deep Future specializes in technological long-shot ideas that struggle to get funding because there isn't the kind of clear runway to quick profitability that most venture capitalists like. Funding is limited to"
"Partner Pablos Holman spent over a decade as an inventor at Intellectual Ventures Lab (IVL), the research and patent portfolio business set up by Microsoft's first chief technology officer, Nathan Myhrvold. He also co-founded the Shmoo hacking conference and worked on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket program. In the last three years, though, he has been funding over 30 startups looking at everything from autonomous shipping to subterranean nuclear power."
Deep Future specializes in funding technological long shots that lack clear paths to quick profitability, offering roughly $500,000 per project to build prototypes that demonstrate laboratory results. The fund targets ideas capable of delivering order-of-magnitude improvements rather than incremental gains. Partner Pablos Holman brings experience from Intellectual Ventures Lab, the Shmoo hacking conference, and work on Blue Origin, and has funded more than 30 startups across fields such as autonomous shipping and subterranean nuclear power. Holman authored a book to signal the kinds of ventures sought. Funded projects range from novel uses of existing technologies to speculative experiments like sinking small reactors deep underground.
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