Matt Mireles

 

Matt Mireles is an American technology entrepreneur & investor who transforms science fiction into reality.

 Matt is founder/CEO of OASIS, a research lab focused on AI-enhanced human communication.

Matt co-founded Dishcraft Robotics, a maker of dishwashing robots for restaurants. He also co-founded SpeakerText , an text-based AI interface for video (acquired). He is an angel investor in 30+ startups, including Crusoe Energy, C16 Bio, KinsideQuit Genius & Oxygen.

Previously, Matt was an award-winning journalist. His writings, photographs & multimedia stories were published in The New York Times, Newsweek and Time, amongst others. 

After fighting forest fires in Alaska & Western US on a US Forest Service hotshot crew, Matt paid his way through Columbia University as a 911 paramedic in the South Bronx. 

 

Latest Writings

14 Lessons Learned from Year #1 as a Startup Investor

Lessons I’ve learned investing so far: 1) FOMO is real. You have to make a conscious effort to not let it affect your thinking and maintain your own intellectual independence. 2) Investing downstream of YC at Demo day is both awesome and terrible. Awesome because the...

Looking Back: Startup Investing Year #1

I wrote my first check to a startup on April 11, 2017. Since then, I've invested in 16 startups via my personal money and a small fund I manage backed by Social Capital. I'm having blast! TLDR: I bet on outsiders using capitalism to solve society's most important...

To the Dreamers: a Thank You

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like...

Alone on Thanksgiving? Come to My House.

Do you not have Thanksgiving Plans? New in town? Are you wondering WTF you are going to do on Thursday? Feeling broke / lonely  ? If so, you should come to my house and join my family for Thanksgiving. We're making smoked Turkey and yams and stuffing and all sorts of...

Betting Against the American Dream (in San Francisco)

My friend Matt Pasienski, a Physics PhD, just announced he's moving to Mexico and leaving San Francisco behind. Here's what he wrote: The American Dream has moved to Mexico. If you work hard in Mexico you can buy a house, have a family, and live a good life. That’s...

You’re always gaining credibility… or losing credibility.

"Should we fire the CEO?" That's the question at the heart of every board meeting. It's the only thing I can really do as a board member, really. Even if I never say those words, the question is always in the back of my mind. -Anonymous Board Member & Entrepreneur...

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