Matt Mireles
Founder of TalkTastic
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Investor & Advisor
2023 - Current
Beautiful stone statues, carved by robots, at a price cheaper than concrete, using a fraction of the carbon. I sherpa’d the founder through raising a $5M seed round led by Alex Ohanion’s 776 Ventures.
Monumental Labs is building AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Emmett Shear, Mythos Ventures and Sahil Lavingia.
Angel Investor
2017
Guerrilla Capital is my personal vehicle to invest in radical technologies to benefit the bottom 90% of humanity. Fixing Climate Change - Monumental :: robot factory for making stone sculptures & building materials - Crusoe Energy :: low-cost, carbon-negative cloud computing - C16 Bio :: lab-grown palm oil replacement - Living Carbon :: trees genetically-engineered to maximize carbon capture - Terraformation :: low-cost, technology-enabled forest restoration - Carbon Collective :: stock & bond portfolios that fight climate change Empowering Consumers - Adaract :: synthetic muscle fibers for robot-human augmentation - Metavoice :: AI voice skins for everyone - The Beans :: personal finance automation for nurses & teachers - Unbound :: female empowerment through sexual health - Blume :: empowering feminine self-care for teens - Kinside :: childcare as an tax-advantaged employer benefit - Oxygen :: neobank for gig workers - NotEvil.ai :: AI to fight deepfake videos & fake social media profiles - tbh [acquired by Facebook] :: positive feedback for teens Cost-Saving Medical Technologies - Patch'd Medical :: early detection of sepsis via deep learning - Persephone Biome :: synthetic fecal transplants as a cancer drug - Quit Genius :: addiction treatment via CBT smartphone app - Spect :: disease diagnosis via retinal scans & deep learning - Lunar Health :: hospital EHR that prevents medical errors Other Stuff - Atypical Ventures LP :: engineers with empathy - Remote First Capital LP :: the future of remote work - Tenacity Venture Capital LP :: startups that refuse to die - Nuvocargo :: freight forwarding for US <> Latin America A third of my investments are into female-led companies and half are into non-white CEOs. This is not an intentional strategy, it just happened that way.
Investor / Advisor
2017
Tech-enabled freight forwarding and logistics between US and Latin America. I sherpa’d the founder through raising a $4M seed round led by NFX in April 2020, just as COVID shutdown the world economy.
Nuvocargo is the all-in-one digital platform for cross-border trade between USA and Mexico.
Raised $74,390,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Hi Ventures, Tresalia Capital, MAYA Capital, Amador Holdings, One Way Ventures, QED Investors, Magma Partners and NFX.
Founder/CEO
2023 - 2025
“Dial-up Neuralink” “Instagram for voice.” We built the first context-aware voice interface for macOS and the first revolutionary rambling-thoughts-to-clear-text iPhone app. Invented “knowledge crystallization”, a novel (and very powerful) method of AI model distillation by creating extremely high-quality hybrid-synthetic datasets by compute scaling. Fine-tuned and distilled ensemble of multimodal LLMs to perform industry-leading screenshot understanding. 3 patents pending, covering context-aware speech recognition using screenshots, dynamic compute switching between on-device & cloud, and predictive interfaces.
Founder/CEO
2019 - 2023
Photorealistic AI avatar video chat for iPhone. I invented (and patented) a decentralized, ultra low-bandwidth AI avatar video chat protocol. 100x less bandwidth than Zoom. 1000x lower cost. We invented a novel GAN architecture and trained a generative AI model from scratch to generate multiple videos in real-time locally on the iPhone, using the Neural Engine, back in 2020. This was an epic feat of engineering. We physically melted iPhones, crashed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s phone and burned his hand (it happened often). Apple ended up using our software as part of their iPhone testing suite. I invented Autopilot and FaceID for AI avatars. 9 issued patents. 1 pending. Covering video chat, biometric security and dynamic inference compute routing for AI avatars. Raised $13M from Founders Fund, Naval Ravikant, Cyan Banister, Matt Ocko, Packy McCormick, Flybridge, Atypical, Hustle Fund and many more! Pivoted to AI voice interfaces in February 2023 (but still the same company).
AI-native platform for human communication. Translate thoughts into perfect writing in any format or language. Share anywhere in one-tap.
Co-Founder
2015 - 2022
Dishcraft makes dishwashing robots for restaurants powered by computer vision, machine learning and cutting edge mechanical engineering. Started in my garage in Menlo Park. Raised $55M from First Round Capital, Baseline and others.
Dishcraft is a robotics company focused on solving the labor and sustainability challenges facing foodservice operators.
Raised $50,242,013.00 from Thayer Ventures, Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, Lemnos VC, Grit Ventures, GRIDS Capital, Fuel Capital, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Lemnos VC.
Investor / Advisor
2017 - 2021
Building the world's largest feminist brand, one sex toy at a time. Using a playful voice and modern aesthetic borrowed from high fashion, Unbound believes that women who have traditionally feared purchasing sexual lifestyle products (e.g., vibrators, lubricants and accessories) will join Unbound, growing the market and creating a community of empowered women across the globe.
Investor & Chairman
2018 - 2019
Detecting AI-generated video "deepfakes" and fake social media profiles.
Investor / Advisor
2017 - 2018
TBH is a social polling app that makes you and your friends feel awesome. 5 weeks after launching, TBH hit #1 in the App Store, surpassing Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, and Uber. Acquired by Facebook in October 2017.
tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Social Capital Partners, Tuesday Capital, Esther Dyson, Chang Corporation, Techstars, Redpoint, Founders Fund, Bee Partners, Jack Levin and Crosslink Capital.
Scout Investor
2017 - 2018
Venture capital to fix the world. I make frighteningly early bets––pre-seed & seed––on outsiders doing crazy shit that (if it works) will transform society and create a fantastic future for humanity. Women, minorities and unconventional backgrounds especially welcome.
We make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree
2005 - 2008