Matt Ocko has been a deep-tech native since childhood, starting programming at age seven and founding his first company at fifteen, then running his own firm focused on highly technical enterprise technologies since the early 1990s—well before deep tech became fashionable among VCs. He uses a structured life-or-death filter for investments, backing only mission-critical products where customers face existential risk without them, and builds an external guild of domain experts into his investment process to help source deals and pressure-test complex technologies. Matt Ocko has been a deep-tech native since childhood, starting programming at age seven and founding his first company at fifteen, then running his own firm focused on highly technical enterprise technologies since the early 1990s—well before deep tech became fashionable among VCs. He uses a structured life-or-death filter for investments, backing only mission-critical products where customers face existential risk without them, and builds an external guild of domain experts into his investment process to help source deals and pressure-test complex technologies.