Matt Mireles
Founder of TalkTastic
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder/CEO
2024 - Current
Just Say It.
Investor & Advisor
2023
The most beautiful statues and stone carvings you can imagine, manufactured by robots, at a price cheaper than concrete, using a fraction of the carbon.
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
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
2019 - 2023
Oasis transforms raw speech and text into flawless writing in any language, format, or style. Effective writing is hard and most people suck at it. Whether it’s drafting an email, writing a legal brief, scripting a TikTok video or creating patient notes, our generative AI platform instantly turns anyone, regardless of writing ability, into an eloquent and persuasive communicator. https://theoasis.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oasis-ai/id1668222944
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. Dishcraft started on a whiteboard in my Menlo Park garage (literally!). Together, my partner Linda & I created the business plan, mapped out the unit economics, built a team, created the first prototype and raised our first round of venture capital. Dishcraft is backed by some of the world's top venture capital firms. More details to come.
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