Ethos
Why We Invest
Humanity is at an inflection point. Our transition towards the information age has just begun and will be accelerated through major breakthroughs in information and bio-technology. We expect such developments to deeply alter civilization, and to align the enormous potential with humanity’s long term interests we keep asking hard questions:
What if we could create scientific and educational systems optimizing for creativity, independent thinking and multi-disciplinary collaboration instead of producing intellectual robots who follow orders?
What if we could foster the convergence of humans and machines to combine human creativity and intuition with machine powered physical-, memory- and compute enhancements instead of outlawing emerging technologies?
What if we could build inclusive and resilient financial- and data infrastructure to prioritize collaboration and productivity over oppressive control, out-of control debt and inflation?
What if we could create composable compute networks which allow us to verify digital information instead of trusting siloed and monopolized intermediaries?
What we invest into
Our thesis is a living framework of ideas and research that allows us to operate with focus and work towards what matters most to us. Within this framework we evaluate startups as complex, adaptive systems on a case by case basis.
At Inflection we are committed to creating a world where advanced computation and trust enhancing technologies converge to advance human-machine collaboration.
Advanced computation
Advanced Computation encapsulates the confluence of frontier computation paradigms, burgeoning data abundance and the AI revolution. As the drivers behind Moore’s law started to fail, advancements in computer architecture – including materials, hardware and algorithmic designs – are urgently required. More recent advancements in transformers and LLMs invite us to re-think large parts of the current compute stack from the edge through new types of databases to robotics.
Trust-enhancing technologies
Trust enhancing technologies built on strong cryptography are an indispensable complement facilitating the advancements in computation. With stateful computers making verifiable commitments about their actions we can increase cyber security, information provenance and user-sovereignty. For the first time in history we are empowered to programmatically coordinate data, capital and labour in a transparent and reliable manner. We are excited to collaborate with founders solving hard problems in confidential computation / PET to pioneer new types of crypto applications going beyond financial speculation. The human-machine economy will be run on smart contracts and crypto networks, not on paper contracts and bank accounts.
Working with us
