Those who build the Frontier own a piece of the Future.
Roadrunner creates deep tech.
Energy
Advanced Manufacturing
Quantum
Advanced Materials
We invest in ideas and founders that have transformative potential.
Founding Partner
Our Co-Founders.
In 2022, our co-founders at America's Frontier Fund (AFF) envisioned an ambitious, national system of venture studios capable of catalyzing the American technological renaissance. Today, our team still partners with AFF to execute our mission. Roadrunner and AFF share ideas, relationships, and a common mission to strengthen American competitiveness and prosperity.
Introducing the Roadrunner Fund.
In 2024, we launched the Roadrunner Fund to invest in the transformative companies that our team builds in the studio day-in and day-out. The fund also invests in the most promising Pre-Seed and Seed companies in the country.
Our relationships with universities, national labs, and the private sector unearth promising ideas.
Purdue University
Sandia National Labs
Elevate Quantum
Air Force Research Laboratory
University of New Mexico
University of Texas at El Paso
Rutgers
University of Michigan
Latest Insights.
Calling All Founders to New Mexico, the Quantum State
If you’re a scientist, engineer, or postdoc working on breakthrough quantum research, you’ve likely asked yourself what it would take to turn your breakthrough ideas into a real company. Not a research paper or a prototype, but a funded, scaling startup that’s solving customer pain points, attracting venture capital, and moving the field forward. If that sounds familiar, this may be your moment.
Tectonic Defense: Roadrunner and New Mexico’s Quantum Leap
"Yesterday, the venture studio announced that it will lead a $25M initiative backed by the New Mexico Economic Development Department to build a quantum campus in downtown Albuquerque. The idea is to bring startups, researchers, and major companies working to develop quantum computing capabilities to the beautiful southwest to supercharge US quantum compute."
Albuquerque Journal: A new day for quantum in New Mexico
Soon, the six-block corridor between Lomas, Broadway, Central and Second will house one of the nation’s most important quantum hubs in the world. There, a group of quantum founders, scientists and researchers will turn quantum science into startups and set a new standard for how the United States innovates at the frontier of technology.
