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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).

Roadrunner is looking for ambitious thinkers with deep technologies and a drive to build enduring companies—if that’s you, we want to hear from you.

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.

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.

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 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.

The relationship, formalized by an MOU signed earlier this month (August 2024), encourages a vibrant, global entrepreneurial ecosystem powered by Purdue innovation.

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

"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 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.

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.

The deep tech venture studio agrees to partnership with iconic innovation laboratory.

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

First-of-its-kind venture studio to commercialize deep technology in New Mexico with all-star roster of technologists and entrepreneurs.

Roadrunner has assembled a world-class team of investors, advisors, and technologists to build new ventures that will transform every part of life.

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.