Energized by the hard problems and the technologists drawn to them
Skylo Technologies
Parth came out of MIT's aerospace lab and met Andrew Kalman - one of the original CubeSat pioneers - at Stanford. Together, they set out to do what the satellite industry insisted was impossible: connect any cellular device, anywhere on Earth, affordably.
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Inception Labs
Stefano co-invented diffusion models at Stanford, then pioneered a line of research with Adita and Volodymyr proving the field wrong about whether the same idea could work for language. It turns out it could.
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Afresh
Matt, Nathan, and Volodymyr spent thousands of hours in grocery store backrooms watching produce managers order fresh food on pen and paper, researching how reinforcement learning could help solve the problem of food spoilage.
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Gatik
Gautam, Arjun, and Apeksha built robots that roved the moon, mapped mines, and competed in DARPA challenges - then realized the same structured autonomy could solve the middle mile that robotaxis couldn't.
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Formlabs
Max, David, and Natan met in MIT Media Lab's "How to Make (Almost) Anything." At the time, professional-grade 3D printers cost $100,000. They started Formlabs to put one on every engineer's desk for $3,000.
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Planet
At NASA Ames, Will, Robbie, and Chris proved a $7,000 satellite built from smartphone parts could do what $850M Landsats could. They left to build Planet - a constellation that now images the whole Earth, daily.
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Eikon Therapeutics
Eric Betzig won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing super-resolution microscopy - a way to watch individual proteins move inside living cells. He co-founded Eikon to industrialize it for drug discovery
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Character Biosciences
Cheng spent a decade working for and in big pharma companies looking for a better way to enable precision medicine. He decided to join the team at Clover Health, set on building a patient-driven drug discovery model, before spinning out Character Bio.
View SiteOur Philosophy
A home for those
who light up
at technical challenges.
Co-founded by Eric Schmidt, we partner with founders who can't stop asking "what's now possible? - the ones drawn to technical challenges that could reshape how the world works.
We're energized by the same questions that keep you up at night. We speak your language because we're tinkerers at heart - we spend our time reading the latest papers, testing new tools, and exploring what breakthroughs suddenly make solvable. Our team has spent decades creating new categories in technical fields and knows what it takes to turn curiosity into companies that endure.
Our Philosophy
All of us,
with you.
Technical expertise alone isn't enough - enduring companies are built through partnership. We're a boutique firm by design: tight-knit, hands-on, and genuinely excited to understand what you're building and how we can help unlock what's next. Our founders don't get just one partner - they get our entire partnership working alongside them.
Our Focus
Building intelligent,
industry-defining
applications
A new generation of software is emerging - intelligent, adaptive, and designed to transform workflows from the ground up. We back founders rethinking how complex systems are architected, how data is searched and secured, and how specialized work gets automated through agents, simulation, and new interfaces. From data-driven approaches to security, to AI-native replacements for legacy software and services, we see vast opportunities to redefine how industries operate.
Companies sharing this focus
Our Focus
Advancing computing’s core primitives
Breakthroughs in AI, distributed systems, and hardware design are driving a fundamental shift in how we build and scale modern computing. As workloads grow more complex and compute-hungry, new architectures, specialized chips, and intelligent infrastructure are needed to meet the moment. We back the founders advancing these core primitives - from semiconductors and developer tools to data infrastructure and training platforms - to unlock the next wave of performance, scalability, and intelligence across every layer of the stack.
Our Focus
Reimagining the
physical economy
Most of global GDP still runs on atoms, not bits - yet many physical industries remain underserved by technology. Energy, construction, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, real estate, industrials, and mobility represent the majority of our economy and nearly all carbon emissions. We back founders bringing new technologies and business models to these sectors to boost productivity, meet rising global demands, and accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more resilient future.
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Our Focus
Engineering the future of health
Technology is enabling a new era of human health. Advances in instrumentation, experimentation, and computation are converging to change how we understand biology, discover and develop medicines, and deliver care to patients. Founders at the forefront are pushing the bounds of science, technology, and entire industries. We back builders across the healthcare and life science ecosystems - from scientific discovery to clinical deployment - working to extend and enhance human life.
Curiosity Camp: Our annual gathering of the incurably curious
We bring together a handpicked group of scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and creators to explore ideas at the edge of what’s possible. It’s a place where disciplines mingle, conversations wander, and new ways of thinking take shape.
Insights
Questions we're asking, ideas we're exploring, and insights from our founders
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