This South Florida founder is building a reticle that reacts faster than you can blink

Matthew Pohl didn’t come up with his idea in a lab or on a test range. It started with a random thought while reading about the transparent lenses used in early AR glasses. 

He remembered how, in arcade shooters like Big Buck Hunter, there’s always a perfect little dot guiding your aim. Then he wondered why that dot couldn’t exist in real life, moving in sync with a person’s head and firearm. 

That spark turned into Boca Raton-based startup Future Optek, which currently has around five employees.

Before this, Pohl had already built two companies: a Bitcoin mining venture launched in 2013 and a consumer product that he said did well enough to teach him how a strong model should work. Those lessons set him up for what came next.