Hemi Ventures

Hemi Ventures is a California-based private equity firm established in 2016 that focuses on early-stage investments in sectors such as autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence applications, and biotechnology. The firm seeks to support entrepreneurs who are developing innovative technologies that enhance human potential. Hemi Ventures not only provides capital but also assists founders in establishing crucial relationships with industry partners and customers, fostering the development of robust ecosystems for growth. By acting as a complementary partner to entrepreneurs, Hemi Ventures aims to unlock new opportunities in emerging technology sectors primarily within the United States.

Amy Gu

Founder and Managing Partner

Justin Li

Principal

Joel Palathinkal

Venture Partner

28 past transactions

Novauto

Series A in 2020
Developer of autonomous car technology intended to improve intelligent driving experiences. The company develops mutual software and hardware that facilitate the compatibility of different operating systems and platforms, enabling intelligent vehicle manufacturers to improve development efficiency and reduce costs.

Phase Genomics

Venture Round in 2020
Phase Genomics, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2015 and located in Seattle, Washington. The company specializes in advanced genomic technologies, particularly ProxiMeta Hi-C genome assembly and metagenome deconvolution. Its mission is to assist scientists in making significant discoveries by delivering highly complete and accurate genomes and metagenomes. Through its innovative approaches, Phase Genomics aims to enhance the understanding of complex biological systems, facilitating research in various fields of life sciences.

Ravel Biotechnology

Venture Round in 2020
Ravel Biotechnology markets an analytic technology platform capable of early detection of disease from cell-free DNA. The technology platform enables the accelerated development and validation of screening tests for a wide range of diseases from a single analyte, cell-free DNA. Thus providing the opportunity to screen for a multitude of diseases from a single blood draw. The company was co-founded by Erik Gafni and Nathan Boley in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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X-37

Series A in 2019
X-37 is a pharmaceutical discovery and development company, which uses advanced artificial intelligence technology from Atomwise, Inc. to discover novel drug candidates by screening vast libraries of chemical compounds against high-value pharmaceutical targets.

Smart Radar System

Series A in 2019
Smart Radar System (SRS) is a pioneer in the field of 4D image radar. Having specialized in radar technology for more than three years, SRS is developing the world's first 4D image radar, RETINA, with sub 1 degree angular resolution and 360 degree surround view.

Tensorflight

Series A in 2019
Tensorflight provides detailed, accurate and near-instant commercial property data. Our engine based on machine learning, AI, computer vision analyzes multiple image types in order to build a database of all buildings in the world, providing features such as: - Building footprint and square footage - Number of stories - Construction type - Roof attributes like geometry - And much more

NAVAN Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
NAVAN Technologies, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company focuses on developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which facilitates direct access to the cytosol of cells. This innovative technology addresses a significant challenge in the field of cell and gene therapies by enabling the efficient and gentle delivery of various materials into difficult-to-transfect cells. Through its NanoStraw platform, NAVAN aims to enhance the capabilities of researchers in their efforts to advance therapeutic solutions.

Skymind

Series A in 2019
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

Skymind

Series A in 2019
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

Mendo

Seed Round in 2019
Mendo provides highly complex liquid-handling in a portable, low-cost, and programmable electrofluidic device. The company utilizes the liquid-handling technology to condense and consolidate the manual and infrastructure-intensive aspects of the next-generation sequencing workflow in an automated handheld device, thereby enabling clients to construct programmable fluidic circuits that can autonomously execute arbitrarily complex liquid handling steps.

Nebula Genomics

Series A in 2018
Nebula Genomics, founded in 2016 by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church and researchers Dennis Grishin and Kamal Obbad, operates an online marketplace for genomic and health data based in San Francisco, California. The company aims to facilitate genomic sequencing and health data sharing by allowing consumers to maintain control over their personal information and receive compensation for its use. By utilizing blockchain technology, Nebula Genomics eliminates intermediaries, enabling direct access to a rich repository of genetic data. This aggregated information serves researchers and the medical community, enhancing drug development and clinical trials while promoting personalized medicine. The company is supported by investors such as Khosla Ventures and Arch Venture Partners, and it also has a presence in Boston, Massachusetts.

Upfort

Seed Round in 2018
Paladin Cyber provides cyber protection as a service for Small Businesses. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Apprentice

Series A in 2018
Apprentice FS, Inc. offers an industrial augmented reality platform tailored for research and development, as well as manufacturing sectors, particularly within the life sciences. Founded in 2014 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides an intelligent manufacturing execution system that incorporates artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. Its platform features modules such as Tandem, Manuals, and BioCapture, which are compatible with various smart glasses and facilitate hands-free operation in laboratory and manufacturing environments. This system allows users to record data, manage batch records, and oversee assays and procedures while ensuring critical information is readily available, thereby minimizing process deviations. Apprentice serves a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, consumer goods, and cosmetics, aiming to enhance efficiency and speed in drug production and other processes.

Ample

Series A in 2018
Ample operates in the smart energy sector, focusing on electric vehicle battery swapping solutions. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, the company utilizes autonomous robotics and advanced battery technology to address the energy delivery challenges faced by electric transportation. Ample has developed an efficient platform that allows electric vehicles to receive a full charge within minutes, aiming to make electric cars more accessible to a wider audience. By providing a rapidly deployable and economical charging solution, Ample seeks to transform the landscape of electric mobility.

Scotty Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Scotty Labs is a spin-out of SRI International. They are a driving company. They believe that the true opportunities for the future of autonomy lie in unlocking the ability for human and machine to work together to solve the most difficult problems driverless vehicles face. The path of progress for the autonomous vehicle is blocked by the idea that complete vehicle autonomy is the goal. They believe safe tele-operation subsumes level 5 autonomy, so instead of removing humans from the driving experience entirely, we’re keeping the humans in, virtually.

melo

Seed Round in 2018
melo.ai is building a new way to automatically taking meeting notes and let every meeting become more efficient and actionable. The 1st-gen product includes 6 camera + 6 microphone array which will be placed on the table inside the meeting room. It will record the voice and video for each speaker automatically without any touch or operations. Meanwhile it will transcript the voice of each speaker, then index topics and action items to relative voice/video/transcription in cloud. The product will allow users to check, follow up, share the meeting content efficiently. It also allows user to share with colleagues or partners who cannot participate that meeting due to location or time challenge, in order to 'let everyone in the loop’, more productive and better coordination. It’s a new type of service for business combining technology(vision+speech) with great user experience. The revenue model will be: annual fee for hardware rent + service fee charged by meeting hours.

Nebula Genomics

Seed Round in 2018
Nebula Genomics, founded in 2016 by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church and researchers Dennis Grishin and Kamal Obbad, operates an online marketplace for genomic and health data based in San Francisco, California. The company aims to facilitate genomic sequencing and health data sharing by allowing consumers to maintain control over their personal information and receive compensation for its use. By utilizing blockchain technology, Nebula Genomics eliminates intermediaries, enabling direct access to a rich repository of genetic data. This aggregated information serves researchers and the medical community, enhancing drug development and clinical trials while promoting personalized medicine. The company is supported by investors such as Khosla Ventures and Arch Venture Partners, and it also has a presence in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tanvas

Series A in 2018
Tanvas, Inc. engages in the development of Surface Haptics technology-based products. The company develops touch screen technology which uses electrostatic fields to create computer-controlled variable friction on the glass and enables people to feel what they see on a screen. Tanvas, Inc. was formerly known as Tangible Haptics LLC. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Chicago. Illinois.

Apprentice

Seed Round in 2017
Apprentice FS, Inc. offers an industrial augmented reality platform tailored for research and development, as well as manufacturing sectors, particularly within the life sciences. Founded in 2014 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides an intelligent manufacturing execution system that incorporates artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. Its platform features modules such as Tandem, Manuals, and BioCapture, which are compatible with various smart glasses and facilitate hands-free operation in laboratory and manufacturing environments. This system allows users to record data, manage batch records, and oversee assays and procedures while ensuring critical information is readily available, thereby minimizing process deviations. Apprentice serves a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, consumer goods, and cosmetics, aiming to enhance efficiency and speed in drug production and other processes.

Tensorflight

Seed Round in 2017
Tensorflight provides detailed, accurate and near-instant commercial property data. Our engine based on machine learning, AI, computer vision analyzes multiple image types in order to build a database of all buildings in the world, providing features such as: - Building footprint and square footage - Number of stories - Construction type - Roof attributes like geometry - And much more

BioAesthetics

Seed Round in 2017
BioAesthetics was founded in 2015 as a Tulane University spin-out with the mission to improve reconstruction options for breast cancer patients after they undergo mastectomies. The BioAesthetics’ initial product is a tissue-engineered nipple-areolar complex (NAC). This product will be provided to plastic and reconstructive surgeons as an off-the-shelf ready, acellular, NAC graft. During the breast reconstruction phase, after a mastectomy, the surgeon would engraft the NAC graft in position onto the patient’s reconstructed breast. The patient’s body would then use this NAC graft as a building frame to regenerate their own NAC. This patent-pending product is currently in the pre-clinical phase.

Starsky Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving. They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

Epinomics

Venture Round in 2017
Epinomics Inc. decodes the programming of human genome to drive personalized medicine leveraging big data analytics and epigenomics technology. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Menlo Park, California. As of March 31, 2018, Epinomics Inc. operates as a subsidiary of 10X Genomics, Inc.

Alcatraz AI

Convertible Note in 2016
Alcatraz AI, Inc. develops advanced facial authentication technology aimed at enhancing physical security for enterprises and government facilities. Founded in 2016 and based in Redwood City, California, the company utilizes machine learning and computer vision to create a frictionless access control system that eliminates the need for traditional badging. Alcatraz AI's solution integrates real-time 3D facial mapping with artificial intelligence to automatically recognize individuals as they approach a secured entry point. This system combines software with a specialized hardware device equipped with sensors, allowing for seamless entry while providing enhanced security features, such as tailgating alerts and analytics. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Alcatraz AI enables organizations to implement highly secure access points that improve overall safety and user experience.

Skymind

Venture Round in 2016
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

Polysync

Seed Round in 2016
Polysync Technologies, Inc. specializes in creating a platform for the development, testing, and deployment of driverless vehicle applications. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Palo Alto, California, and Europe, Polysync offers software tools and services that facilitate the research, development, and production of autonomous vehicle components. Its solutions are utilized by automotive engineering services, developers, government agencies, and universities globally, enabling safer and more efficient advancements in autonomous mobility. Polysync's products are currently operational in over 17 countries, underscoring its impact on the autonomous vehicle industry.

Point One Navigation

Seed Round in 2016
Point One Navigation is building a localization service accurate down to a few centimeters at a cost 100x less than existing solutions. Using proprietary sensor fusion algorithms between computer vision and satellite navigation data coupled with a network of sensors, the solution out performs inferior single sensor techniques and does so without the need for special hardware. More info available at info@pointonenav.com
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