Frontier Tech Ventures is a venture studio that conceives, builds and operates AI-native companies: the trust, payments, build and operating layers of the agent economy, and the frontier markets those layers open up in health, wealth and space.
We build in two directions at once. Down the stack, we build what every AI agent needs to be trusted, paid, built and put to work. Out into the world, we take that stack into markets that have been too complex, too regulated or too data-heavy for software alone.
Read it from the bottom up: trust is the bedrock, and everything above it depends on it.
OperateMarkets where an AI that acts, rather than one that only answers, changes the economics.
Each company has its own product, team and market, and all of them were built on the studio's shared engineering platform.
Trust, safety and certification infrastructure for AI models, agents and browser extensions.
Identity, wallets and a marketplace so AI agents can transact on their own.
The first IDE built for agents, where developers and the business build together.
Give your C-suite a second brain: nine AI executive agents that share one company memory.
An agentic preventive-health platform that turns longevity science into daily action. The Physics of Biology™.
Your money, all in one place. Nothing leaves your Mac.
The proprietary intelligence layer for Low Earth Orbit.
A studio, not a fund. We don't wait for pitches: we start from a thesis, build the first version ourselves, run our own companies on it, and only then take it to market.
Find a structural shift where AI agents change who can do the work, and at what cost.
A small founding team ships a working product fast on the studio's AI-native engineering platform.
We use it on ourselves and our sister companies first, so real usage shapes the product before customers see it.
The company gets its own leadership, capital and brand, and keeps the studio's shared infrastructure.
Founder & Chairman, Frontier Tech Ventures
The studio's first rule: build it, use it ourselves, then ship it to the world.
Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, investor and public servant who has spent his career building platforms at the edge of new technology waves.
He founded PlaySpan, a digital-goods payments platform acquired by Visa, and EdCast, an AI-powered knowledge platform acquired by Cornerstone. He served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, and has a long record in Silicon Valley venture investing and philanthropy.
Frontier Tech Ventures brings his companies together under one roof, with a shared thesis, a shared platform and a founder who is the first user of everything the studio ships.
For co-founders, operators, enterprise partners and co-investors who want to build the next layer with us.