Hemi Ventures

Hemi Ventures invests in early stage startups in autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence applications, biotech, and other emerging technology sectors. We partner with entrepreneurs whose cutting edge innovations unlock new frontiers for human potential. ‘Hemi’ (hēmi-) means ‘half’ in Greek. We serve as a complementary half to our founders. In addition to capital, we help founders establish pivotal relationships with industry partners and customers to build strong ecosystems that help them grow.

Amy Gu

Founder and Managing Partner

29 past transactions

Novauto

Series A in 2020
Novauto provides energy efficient computing for driving. They provides smart driving computing chips as the core, supporting AI processing architecture, and multi-modal.

Alcatraz AI

Venture Round in 2020
Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA.

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.

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.

metaMe Health

Seed Round in 2019
MetaMe Health is currently developing Regulora™ for IBS to become the first FDA-cleared prescription-only digital therapeutic for the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). More than 30 million Americans are affected by IBS, and the abdominal pain, diarrhea, and/or constipation that comes with it. Regulora™ for IBS provides relief by digitizing a standardized Brain-Gut therapy approach that has been clinically proven to be effective in reducing IBS symptoms.

Tensorflight

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

NAVAN Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
NAVAN Technologies, Inc., (NAVAN) is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which establishes a direct, physical connection into cells to overcome a huge challenge faced by researchers globally: delivering material into hard-to-transfect-cells in an efficient yet gentle and non-perturbative manne

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 is a human genome sequencing and health big data company on a mission to usher in the era of genomic sequencing by building a large and trusted genomic and health data marketplace for consumers, researchers and the medical community. Using blockchain to ensure that consumers maintain control of their data and are compensated for its use, the Nebula marketplace will aggregate a critical mass of rich genetic information that researchers can analyze in order to accelerate drug development, streamline clinical trials, and usher in the era of truly personalized medicine. The company was founded by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church, along with Harvard researchers Dennis Grishin and Kamal Obbad. Founded in 2017, Nebula Genomics has offices in San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA and is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, Fenbushi Capital, Mayfield, F-Prime Capital Partners, GreatPoint Ventures, Hemi Ventures and Mirae Asset.

Upfort

Seed Round in 2018
Upfort is a cyber security and insurance platform that offers comprehensive protection to SMEs against evolving cyber threats. It allows organizations to fully address their cyber security needs–from risk management tools to insurance policies–through one easy-to-use platform. Its software provides phishing simulation, public Wi-Fi protection, inbox protection, password management, and cyber liability insurance.

Apprentice.io

Series A in 2018
Apprentice.io’s disruptive technology helps pharma manufacturers get medicine to patients faster by providing one platform to turn molecules into medicine. The Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is an intelligent platform that integrates augmented reality, voice recognition, and artificial intelligence into wearable, mobile, and desktop devices to offer a virtual collaboration application and robust manufacturing and lab execution systems that reduce human error and inefficiency in the drug production process.

Ample

Series A in 2018
Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation. The company utilizes autonomous robotics and smart battery technology to address the challenges in energy delivery for electric transportation. Ample's battery system uses smaller, interchangeable battery modules that can fit into a wide variety of vehicles.

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.

Nebula Genomics

Seed Round in 2018
Nebula Genomics is a human genome sequencing and health big data company on a mission to usher in the era of genomic sequencing by building a large and trusted genomic and health data marketplace for consumers, researchers and the medical community. Using blockchain to ensure that consumers maintain control of their data and are compensated for its use, the Nebula marketplace will aggregate a critical mass of rich genetic information that researchers can analyze in order to accelerate drug development, streamline clinical trials, and usher in the era of truly personalized medicine. The company was founded by Harvard genomics pioneer George Church, along with Harvard researchers Dennis Grishin and Kamal Obbad. Founded in 2017, Nebula Genomics has offices in San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA and is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, Fenbushi Capital, Mayfield, F-Prime Capital Partners, GreatPoint Ventures, Hemi Ventures and Mirae Asset.

Tanvas

Series A in 2018
Tanvas is redefining touch by enabling you to feel what you see on any touchscreen. Despite advances in graphics, sound, and vibration, today’s touchscreen is still just a static window to the digital world. Tanvas use surface haptics to add a new dimension of interaction that goes beyond the buzz of vibration and brings unlimited textures and feelings to flat, physical surfaces. TanvasTouch can be built into any touch-enabled product across a wide range of applications, including automotive, retail, consumer electronics, visually impaired and custom displays.

Apprentice.io

Seed Round in 2017
Apprentice.io’s disruptive technology helps pharma manufacturers get medicine to patients faster by providing one platform to turn molecules into medicine. The Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is an intelligent platform that integrates augmented reality, voice recognition, and artificial intelligence into wearable, mobile, and desktop devices to offer a virtual collaboration application and robust manufacturing and lab execution systems that reduce human error and inefficiency in the drug production process.

Tensorflight

Seed Round in 2017
Tensorflight provides detailed, accurate, and near-instant commercial property data. Our engine based on machine learning, AI, and computer vision analyzes images of the whole structure in order to build a database of all buildings in the world, providing features such as: - Building footprint and square footage - AI-based replacement cost - Number of stories - Construction type - Roof attributes like geometry or material - 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 by spending months away from their families to keep the American economy moving. They are working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remotely 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.

Cypre

Convertible Note in 2017
Cypre Inc. is a biotechnology company developing novel 3D in vitro models of the tumor microenvironment (TME) for cancer drug discovery. The company employs proprietary high content imaging algorithms and in-house built 3D hydrogel technology to map efficacy and novel insights to therapeutic mechanisms across all modalities - small molecules, antibodies, and cell & gene therapy.

EPINOMICS

Venture Round in 2017
Epinomics is revolutionizing personalized medicine through scientific research, deep analytics, and clinical application development.

Alcatraz AI

Convertible Note in 2016
Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA.

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
Founded in 2013, Polysync Technologies builds solutions to help partners safely accelerate their development, testing, production, and market deployment of driverless vehicle mobility solutions. Automotive engineering services, developers, government agencies, and universities around the world rely on Polysync for autonomous software and vehicle development. Polysync's products are in operation in more than 17 countries, with offices in Portland, OR, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI, and Europe.

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. We combine GNSS, Inertial, and Computer Vision technologies using proprietary algorithms to build the highest performance navigation systems that can scale to mass market applications. More info available at info@pointonenav.com
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