Helen Zelman Boniske began her career in Major League Baseball operations and scouting analytics for the Arizona Diamondbacks, working as an MIT-trained analyst and QuesTec operator at Fenway Park before becoming a scouting coordinator. She co-founded Lemnos VC after identifying that early-stage hardware founders lacked dedicated support, combining her mechanical engineering background and sports analytics experience to focus specifically on robotics, transportation, energy, and hardware startups at a time when few firms embraced capital-intensive physical products.