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James Hardiman

Investor at NOETIK

San Francisco, California

Overview 

James Hardiman is a General Partner at DCVC, specializing in early-stage investments in applied AI and deep tech. With a background in finance and strategy, he has successfully invested in companies like Valar Labs and Gradle Inc., demonstrating a strong track record in venture capital. Hardiman's role at DCVC involves leading investments in Series A, Series B, and seed-stage companies across sectors like DeepTech, AI, and IoT, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2017 - Current

    Decoding biology to radically improve lives Board Observer 2017 to 2020

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a biotech company that develops a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.

Raised $865,376,000.00 from NVIDIA, Laurion Capital Management, Invus, Baillie Gifford, Kinnevik, Mubadala Capital Ventures and Platinum Asset Management.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2022

    An AI-native biotechnology company harnessing self-supervised learning and human multimodal data for better precision immunotherapies.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2022

  • Investor and Board Director

    2021

    Developing single cell platforms to unlock a key bottleneck in immunotherapy, enabling curative treatments.

ShennonBio analyzes and manipulates a massive number of cells on the single cell level to develop better treatments for human diseases.

Raised $13,000,000.00 from Foundation Capital, DCVC, Jasper Lau, AV8 Ventures and Mei Z..

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2021

    Ammonia-to-power for a sustainably-driven future

Amogy offers an innovative clean energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel.

Raised $219,300,000.00 from Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Aramco Ventures, Zeon Ventures, DCVC, Yanmar Ventures, Korea Zinc, AP Ventures, SK Innovation and Temasek Holdings.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2020

    The world's first accessible X-Ray CT scanner for engineers

Lumafield is an accessible X-ray CT platform that gives engineers better insights into product development and manufacturing.

Raised $67,500,000.00 from Shane Neman, Spark Capital, Lux Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Future Shape and DataCollective.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2020

    Transforming how software is built and shipped.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2020

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

    Builds infrastructure software to power quantum technology

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2017

    The world’s most extensive agriculture data platform

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