Mike Mettler is a General Partner at Roadrunner and an advisor to Climate Capital, with a focus on nuclear and fusion investing that includes visiting researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to see which lab ideas are ready to become companies. He previously cofounded and sold two companies (card.io to PayPal and Canopy in climate emissions modeling), held product roles at AdMob and Bloom Energy, and spent time at In-Q-Tel, giving him a background that looks closely at the practical side of hard technology, from regulations and fuel supply to manufacturing and hiring, not just the underlying science.
About their Fund
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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