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Leading Venture Funds Partner with Roadrunner and the SIC to Launch Deep Tech Organization
Roadrunner Venture Studios and the New Mexico State Investment Council today announced the launch of the Roadrunner Venture Consortium (RVC), a new membership initiative giving venture capital firms direct access to early-stage deep tech companies and scientists in New Mexico and across the country. Representing more than $25 billion in assets under management, founding RVC participants include Playground Global, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Crosslink Capital, At One Venture, and America’s Frontier Fund (AFF).

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RTF25 on Oct. 15, 2025
Roadrunner Venture Studios is thrilled to announce that the next Roadrunner Technology Forum (RTF25) is set for October 15, 2025 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tickets are available now.

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.

Roadrunner Welcomes Four Deep Tech Innovators to the Studio
Roadrunner Venture Studios's company creation factory is expanding. We are proud to welcome to the studio two new founders and two additional Founders-in-Residence (FIRs) who will search for and develop new deep tech ideas across their tenures. These talented leaders are building in climate tech, robotics, and advanced manufacturing.

Purdue Research Foundation partners with Roadrunner to transform Boilermaker deep tech into startups
The relationship, formalized by an MOU signed earlier this month (August 2024), encourages a vibrant, global entrepreneurial ecosystem powered by Purdue innovation.

Semafor: Roadrunner Venture Studios strikes Purdue startup deal
"Purdue Research Foundation, which helps turn academic findings into startups, has inked a deal with Albuquerque-based Roadrunner Venture Studios."

Fortune: NMSIC is investing $50M in a bet that scientists will build startups in Albuquerque
"The state’s sovereign wealth fund, the New Mexico State Investment Council, two weeks ago agreed to invest $50 million as an anchor check into Roadrunner’s first venture capital fund, approximately $20 million of which will go directly into Roadrunner itself."

Roadrunner Welcomes Tech Luminaries To RTF24 in Albuquerque
Roadrunner Technology Forum 2024 is a sold out deep tech conference. The New Mexico-based venture studio’s second annual event brings national audience to the Wool Warehouse Theater.

Hydrosonics, Inc. closes $875,000 in Pre-Seed and Non-Dilutive Funding
One of Roadrunner’s first studio companies, Hydrosonics, Inc., completed raising a $525K Pre-Seed led by Roadrunner Venture Studios and joined by Dangerous Ventures and a local angel fund dedicated to deep tech innovation in New Mexico.

Roadrunner Venture Studios Announces New Partnership with Nokia Bell Labs
The deep tech venture studio agrees to partnership with iconic innovation laboratory.

Roadrunner Announces Studio Companies
First-of-its-kind venture studio adds deep tech ventures in advanced manufacturing, clean technology, and biotech as its inaugural cohort.

Roadrunner Venture Studios Launches with Backing from America’s Frontier Fund
First-of-its-kind venture studio to commercialize deep technology in New Mexico with all-star roster of technologists and entrepreneurs.

Roadrunner Announces Amotz Maimon as Head of Technology and Product and Jim Ward as Company Mentor
Roadrunner has assembled a world-class team of investors, advisors, and technologists to build new ventures that will transform every part of life.

Roadrunner Hosts Community Showcase for Local Scientists
Roadrunner hosted a community showcase highlighting local scientists and their research. The event at Glorieta Station in Albuquerque attracted prominent scientists, technologists, researchers, and investors to engage with cutting-edge research developed in New Mexico’s world-renowned national laboratories and universities. The showcase served as a precursor to Roadrunner's official launch, anticipated in the fall of 2023.