Gilman Louie

Investment Committee Chair, Roadrunner
Gilman Louie, ex-game developer who licensed Tetris west and In-Q-Tel's first CEO who backed Keyhole (later Google Earth), seeks overlooked gaps and directs his fund's first investment to critical technologies.
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About Gilman Louie

Gilman Louie built his early career as a game developer behind flight simulators and the Western licensing of Tetris, then became the first CEO of In-Q-Tel, where he backed Keyhole, the geospatial company that became Google Earth and later connected him to Niantic through founder John Hanke. He describes his investing approach as looking for the gap between what most people see and what they don't yet notice, and at Roadrunner he has framed the fund's first investment around building companies in critical technologies.

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Energy, Materials, Deeptech / Hardware, Climate, Biotech
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$1M

Roadrunner Venture Studios is an Albuquerque, New Mexico deep tech company creation platform that builds businesses from the ground up alongside technical founders. Its focus spans energy, advanced manufacturing, quantum, and advanced materials, and its stated aim is to keep the U.S. the best place in the world to commercialize deep tech, positioning itself as the nation's go-to platform for identifying, founding, and investing in deep tech, and a de-risking vehicle for the American technological renaissance. Rather than acting as a pure capital source, Roadrunner describes itself as a "venture outfitter" that turns ideas into companies by equipping scientists and technologists with everything they need to succeed, from capital to talent to top-to-bottom advising, using a network of operators and government and private partners to move technologies from the lab to market.

Alongside the studio sits the Roadrunner Fund, anchored by a $50M commitment from the New Mexico State Investment Council, which writes roughly $1M pre-seed checks primarily into companies coming out of the studio.

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