Scott Amyx
Most boards can name the headline technologies. Few have a serious view on which of them will actually reshape their industry, and on what timeline. Without that judgment, capital and talent get committed against the wrong bet.
Scott Amyx is a deep tech venture capitalist and futurist who helps organisations identify which emerging technologies will reshape their industry and which will not.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Scott Amyx
- Active deep tech investor with personal capital in D-Orbit (space logistics), Brightseed (plant bioactives), Bloom Diagnostics, Omnitron Sensors and Lunar Station Corp. His read on which technologies matter is filtered through real investment decisions.
- Range that few speakers credibly hold: climate adaptation, longevity science, the space economy, quantum computing and autonomy. The breadth lets him connect technologies most boards still see as separate silos.
- Forbes innovation columnist for nearly four years and a Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member. His frameworks have been published and stress-tested in serious commercial venues.
- Active judge at SXSW Pitch and a Singularity University Smart City Accelerator mentor. He sees the next wave of deep tech startups well before the press cycle catches up.
Biography highlights
- Chair and Managing Partner at Astor Perkins, a New York based deep tech and sustainability venture capital firm.
- Founder and CEO of Uplifty AI.
- Author of Strive (Wiley, 2018), endorsed by Tony Robbins; co-author of academic publications with John Wiley & Sons and IGI Global on the Internet of Things and wearable technology security.
- Forbes innovation columnist, 2019 to 2022; Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member.
- TEDxRutgers speaker on Strive; co-organiser of TEDxWallStreet; SXSW Pitch judge; Tribeca Disruptor Foundation Fellow; Singularity University Smart City Accelerator mentor.
- Featured in The New York Times, TIME, Forbes, The Washington Post, WIRED, TechCrunch and Inc.
Biography
Most boardroom conversations about innovation traffic in the same handful of headline technologies. The deep tech that will actually reshape the next decade is being funded quietly by a much smaller group of investors. Most executive teams have no real view of what they are betting on.
Scott Amyx is one of those investors. As Chair and Managing Partner at Astor Perkins, he runs a New York based deep tech and sustainability venture firm. The portfolio backs companies in space logistics, longevity science, climate adaptation and the space economy, including D-Orbit, Brightseed, Bloom Diagnostics, Omnitron Sensors and Lunar Station Corp.
Beyond the fund, he writes prolifically. He spent nearly four years as a Forbes innovation columnist and now sits on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. His Wiley book Strive, endorsed by Tony Robbins, argues that consistent achievement comes from deliberately seeking discomfort. The thesis traces his own move from impoverished Korean immigrant to deep tech investor.
For corporate audiences, the value is specific. Boards routinely struggle to discriminate between technologies that are loud and technologies that are commercially serious. Amyx makes that call on his own balance sheet, with active positions in space logistics, climate technology, longevity science and the broader space economy.
Key speaking topics
- Deep tech and exponential technologies
- The space economy and frontier markets
- Climate adaptation and sustainability technology
- Artificial intelligence and the future of work
- Innovation strategy for large organisations
- Longevity and human health technology
- Venture capital and the next industrial revolution
Ideal for
- Boards and C-suite leadership setting five to ten year strategy under technological uncertainty
- Chief Innovation Officers, CTOs and Chief Strategy Officers evaluating emerging technology bets
- Corporate venture capital and M&A teams scoping deep tech partnership or acquisition targets
- Government agencies and sovereign innovation programmes shaping national technology priorities
Audience outcomes
- A working view of which exponential technologies are commercially serious and which are still speculative
- A current map of where venture capital is actually placing bets in deep tech
- A more rigorous lens for board level decisions on technology and capital allocation
- Specific examples from Astor Perkins portfolio companies that ground abstract trends in real businesses
Talks
A tour of the converging exponential technologies that are reshaping almost every sector, with an honest assessment of where most large companies are positioned to respond.
Key takeaways:
- A view of which exponential technologies are commercially serious in the next five years and which remain speculative
- The reasons mature companies struggle to commercialise breakthrough innovation, drawn from Accenture and PwC research
- Examples of incumbents that have repositioned around exponential change and what they did differently
Why disruption rarely arrives from inside an industry, and what mature companies can do to build the conditions to spot it earlier.
Key takeaways:
- Why mature companies optimise themselves out of breakthrough innovation by design
- The decision points where leadership teams typically miss external disruption signals
- A model for separating efficiency improvements from genuine new value creation
How AI, robotics and advanced automation are reshaping the labour market, and what this means for workforce strategy in industries from manufacturing to financial services.
Key takeaways:
- A grounded assessment of which job functions are most exposed to AI and automation in the next decade
- The historical pattern of job destruction and creation across previous industrial revolutions
- Workforce planning approaches that build adaptable capability across many roles