Bill Miller
Co-chair, Membership Committee at Hedera
Greater Colorado Springs Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and General Partner
2008 - Current
FirstMile Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund manager making investments in early stage companies, principally located in Colorado and Texas, with exceptional teams and innovative products or business models.
FirstMile Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage technology companies.
Executive Chairman
2018
Data Intelligence Solutions to Accelerate Insights - Scalable, Simultaneous, Always-On Recording and Distribution at over 100 Gbps
Axellio offers micro data centers for the edge through its FabricXpress product range
Co-chair, Membership Committee
2022
Advisor
2020
Swirlds is a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Sarah Downey and FirstMile Ventures.
Member of the Board of Directors
2011
Altia's mission is to provide a cohesive, easy-to-use set of Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) development tools that help creative, customer-focused designers build and deliver great user interfaces. Altia's tools are used from concept to final code, thus maximizing productivity and re-use. With Altia's tools, manufacturers can deliver HMIs much faster -- while producing higher quality user interfaces. It is these high quality user interfaces that form the foundation of market-leading products.
Altia provides human-machine interface (HMI) development tools for designers to build and deliver user interfaces for various devices.
Raised $3,409,471.00 from FirstMile Ventures.
Member of the Board of Directors
2016
FalconStor is modernizing backup and archival for today’s multi-cloud era.
Raised $6,328,000.00 from ROTH Capital Partners and Hale Capital.
Member Board of Directors
2014
CTI has been dedicated to improving lives “through chemistry that alerts, protects and surprises.” As the world’s largest manufacturer of thermochromic inks, CTI uses its ink technology to convey messaging, be it an indication of hot or cold temperatures, or an extension of the product’s brand. CTI chemistry also provides photochromic, black light, glow-in-thedark, social media activation, security protection, and is also inventing new methods for bacteria detection and cancer treatment. CTI’s innovations can be found on products from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Coors, Fanta, Hallmark, Heineken, Monster Energy, Mountain Dew, Pizza Hut, Sprite, The Smart Lid and Tuaca Liqueurs.
Managing Partner
2008
Board Member
2020 - 2022
Chairman and CEO
2015 - 2018
X-IO builds ultra-performance, highly-reliable, ultra-dense processing and storage systems to match the extreme demands of edge computing applications like real-time analytics on high-bandwidth big data streams, anomaly detection, and unsupervised machine learning for cyber-security and network surveillance, financial market surveillance, algorithmic trading, fraud detection, defense, real-time intelligence, and industrial IoT. X-IO’s Axellio FabricXpressTM Architecture systems provide large-scale NVMe on PCIe fabric in a dense, inexpensive package with >65GB/s full-duplex bandwidth, <50цs data access latency to dual-active port NVMe Flash providing >12 Million IOPS for ingesting, storing, and executing real-time analytics on high-bandwidth big data streams. X-IO’s ISE and iglu storage systems provide superior performance and economics with designed 5 year zero-touch availability enabled by unique media resiliency and enterprise features and manageability in any combination of HDD, Hybrid, and all-Flash.
Education
BS
1978 - 1982
None (left to join a start-up)
1983 - 1985