Hico Ventures

Merklebase is a company offering a platform accessible at base.merklebase.io. It provides demo scheduling and API documentation.

Medex Finance offers AI-powered medical coding automation designed to optimize revenue cycles in healthcare environments, ensuring compliance and high accuracy in coding.

Recur partners with mission-critical software companies to unlock growth and build for an AI-first future. They specialize in acquiring vertical software companies that are essential to specific industries, helping them grow through AI-driven products and services.

AI interview prep & coaching to win the final round of interviews, competitions, or esports.

Poetiq is developing intelligent systems capable of recursive self-improvement to enhance reasoning and problem-solving capabilities using language models.

Irys Insurtech provides AI-driven solutions for the insurance industry, focusing on automating processes, enhancing compliance, and improving operational efficiency.

Canonical Crypto is a $20M solo-GP fund run by former Microsoft engineer and serial entrepreneur Anand Iyer, who focuses exclusively on developer infrastructure for web3 rather than consumer crypto apps. The fund is backed by top crypto investors like Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon as limited partners, positioning it as a specialist infrastructure picker that helps crypto developers build more productive tooling, security, and data solutions.

Later-stage investor offering multi-asset access to private equity, credit and capital-markets expertise, plus hands-on operator-led growth support from a Hive team specialized in regulated fintech. BCV operates as part of Bain Capital's multi-asset platform, giving portfolio companies access to private equity, credit expertise, and later-stage capital that most standalone VCs cannot provide, while their "Hive" platform team of ex-operators from companies like Dropbox and Stripe works hands-on with founders using a formalized growth methodology rather than ad-hoc support. The firm has built a strong reputation as a fintech specialist with category-defining investments in regulated financial technology companies like GoCardless and Flywire, combining both operating expertise and capital-markets sophistication for complex fintech plays.

Basis Set Ventures is a $140M+ seed fund that uses psychometrics and structured data to categorize founders into specific archetypes (like "humble operator" or "agile visionary"), then statistically models which personality patterns correlate with outlier outcomes—turning typical "gut feel" investing into a repeatable, data-informed process. The women-led firm runs a quantitative sourcing engine that tracks obscure signals like GitHub activity spikes and engineer departures from big tech to find "future of work" AI companies outside the usual Sand Hill Road network, positioning itself as the place where introverted, pragmatic operators can practice their pitch and get hands-on help with everything from go-to-market strategy to model-building.

Early investor in AI applications and infrastructure, led by active AI practitioners Socher, Manning, and Goldbloom who continue hands-on research and company-building, offering domain expertise and founder partnership.