Hermenica Capital
Frontier

Where intelligence
meets matter.

Machine intelligence is the disruptive force of this era. The deepest value forms where it collides with a substrate it is about to transform. We invest only at those collision points, and only in discontinuities. Incremental innovation, however profitable, is outside our mandate.

The four collisions

  1. Intelligence × Biology

    Designed therapeutics, genomics and synthetic biology attacking a 90% drug-failure rate from several angles at once.

  2. Intelligence × Machines

    Foundation models closing the gap between software and hardware, making robotics general-purpose infrastructure.

  3. Intelligence × Compute

    Intelligence rebuilding its own substrate: architectures, processors, memory, continuous learning.

  4. Intelligence × the Physical Frontier

    Launch costs down two orders of magnitude, opening a servicing greenfield across thousands of satellites.

Four tests

Four tests. Every company passes all of them or we pass.

  1. 01

    A recent inflection

    it exists because something just became possible, not because someone executes better.

  2. 02

    A 10x discontinuity

    an order of magnitude in cost, capability or outcome. Never 10%.

  3. 03

    A moat rooted in science

    IP, exclusive licence, regulatory approval, proprietary data. Not speed alone.

  4. 04

    Translatable across ecosystems

    a company our network can move: talent, capital or market, across a border. The test only we can run.