Those who build the Frontier own a piece of the Future.
Roadrunner creates deep tech.
Energy
Advanced Manufacturing
Compute
Clean Tech
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.
NMSIC is investing $50M in a bet that scientists will build startups in Albuquerque
House View: The Carbon Reboot, Building a Market for Carbon Dioxide
Upcycling carbon dioxide into products like e-fuels converts a harmful greenhouse gas into an economic asset. But this process has been challenging: carbon dioxide doesn’t like to change and requires a lot of energy to be transformed to new molecules.
House View: The Future of Data Center Compute
With around 5.52 billion internet users and 4.88 billion smartphone users worldwide, humankind is generating and consuming more data than ever before. In 2024, users created more data in a single week—about 2.8 billion terabytes—than in the entire year of 2010.
