Ben Hemani
Founding Partner
Ben is an engineer-turned-investor who is passionate about guiding frontier technology businesses towards massive commercial success and impact in collaboration with equally driven entrepreneurs. While a generalist at heart, Ben particularly loves businesses that utilize AI to enable innovation in the physical world, such as Bison’s investments in Cadstrom, Cobot, Grid Aero, Juvena, Kapta, Passkey and Thinking Machines Lab.
Prior to co-founding Bison Ventures, Ben worked at Cascade Asset Management Company, which manages the assets of the Gates Foundation and Gates family members. There he focused on venture capital investments across a variety of frontier technologies, including surgical and manufacturing robotics, physical security, AI-enabled drug discovery, and energy. Throughout Ben's investment career he has partnered with 8 unicorns (and counting)!
Ben started his investing career over a decade ago at Braemar Energy Ventures, an early pioneer in climate and sustainability venture capital, where he led investments in category-creating climate tech companies such as ChargePoint (CHPT).
When not debating the merits of the latest innovations in robotics, Ben loves to shuck oysters and boil lobsters — like any good New Englander. His favorite place in the world is New Hampshire.
Ben received a B.E. and a Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth. He also served on the Dean’s Council at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering.
