Investments

More infos on my high level strategy. 80%+ of my investments are into liquid stocks, index funds, crypto, more esoteric strategies and not listed. The checks below are comparably small, either direct, via svps or secondaries.

• If you are looking for a supportive angel investor in a related sector, feel free to send me your pitch deck, and concise explainer at mail [at] vincentweisser.com containing the title “(Sector) Startup: Concise sentence what you do and why it matters + deal structure”.

Private startups

AI

• OpenAI - AI research and deployment.
• Anthropic - AI safety and research company.
• Scale AI - Streamlining data labeling and processing tasks to train and validate AI models.
• Figure - Building autonomous humanoid robots to scale the labor force.
• 1x - Humanoid companions at home.
• Apptronik - Industrial robots.
• Langdock - AI enterprise platform.

Semi

• Atomic Semi - Chip manufacturing fab with the goal to produce chips in 12 hours (instead of 6 months) at a fraction of the cost.
• Lightmatter - Photonic (super)computing for machine learning.
• Cerebras - Large AI chips designed for scaled up computation.
• Irradiant Technologies - 3D Nano-optics & Photonics Foundry.

Energy

• Aalo Atomics - Small nuclear fission reactors to achieve scalable clean power at ~ 3 cents per kWh.
• Marathon Fusion - Fuel systems for the fusion industry.
• Terraform Industries - Gigascale atmospheric hydrocarbon synthesis, producing cheap natural gas with sunlight and air.
• Ouros Energy - Working on batteries that provide 10x higher energy for 1% of the cost of todays lithium-ion.
• Quaise Energy - Unlocking scalable geothermal energy through millimeter wave drilling technology.
• Overview Energy - 24/7 cheap baseload solar energy from space.

Materials and manufacturing

• Atomic Industries - Combining technology and manufacturing to create a world where the world of atoms can move at the speed of bits.
• Cambium - Novel material innovations, from UAVs and advanced aerospace applications through to optical systems and beyond.
• Earth AI - AI-driven, high-performance explorer for clean energy metals.

Bio + Health + Neuro

• Q Bio - Automating the physical exam to make preventive personalized healthcare available to everyone.
• Kernel - Non-invasive BCI for brain-based biomarkers, to accelerate treatment discovery, improve patient outcomes, and transform neuromedicine.
• Neuralink - Generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlocking human potential tomorrow.

Space + Aviation

• SpaceX - Designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft.
• Impulse Space - Access Any Orbit: Rapid in-space transportation and orbital mobility.
• Astro Mechanica - Multi-mode and hybrid propulsion system, enabling the creation of a reusable and affordable spaceplanes.
• Interlune Space - Harvesting natural resources from space to benefit Earth and establish an in-space economy.
• Karman+ - Mining asteroids to supply the space economy.
• Airship Industries - Efficient, Fast, Affordable Airships for Global Trade.

Infra + tools

• Stripe - Payment and financial infrastructure provider.
• Replit - Building tools to make programming more accessible.

Crypto

• Uniswap Labs - Decentralized crypto exchange, wallet and nft platform.
• Kraken - Leading crypto exchange, offering spot and futures trading as well as staking.
• BeakerDAO - Decentralized science funding collective.

Disclaimer: Not financial advice