Ben Hemani looks at biotech, high-performance computing, and climate technology as connected fields, and he believes combining ideas from each makes for better investing decisions; he also pushes hard-tech founders to prove they're solving a real customer problem, and he treats AI as a useful tool in drug discovery rather than a cure-all. His background in environmental engineering, along with earlier work in climate-tech investing and frontier-tech deals tied to the Gates ecosystem, has shaped his focus on backing serious scientific and industrial ideas instead of software-only startups.
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Bison is made up entirely of investors with engineering backgrounds, and they invest in frontier-tech companies once the core science has been proven but before it has been fully scaled, commercialized, or brought to market—often at the intersection of fields like robotics and biology or AI and drug discovery, and with a preference for robotics companies built for fast, modular deployment rather than moonshot-style projects. The firm has also backed teams where more than 80% of CEOs came from groups traditionally underrepresented in venture-backed startups, including women making up half of that group.
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