Atoms, Electrons, Bits, Tokens, Work, Outcomes. Matter, Energy, Information, Intelligence, Transformation, Abundance
A Silicon Valley venture firm for founders turning artificial intelligence and emerging technologies into companies that matter. We invest early, mostly at pre‑seed and seed.
We are at the start of the largest technological shift of our lives. Artificial intelligence is rewriting how everything gets made. Problems once too hard to build are now being taken on by tech-heavy companies. We exist to back them early.
We back founders who build hard things: tech-heavy companies where engineering is the product and the moat, with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies at the core.
Harder to copy than tech-enabled, faster to market than deep tech. When the science is ready, we go deep too.
Matter makes energy possible. Energy runs computation, computation produces intelligence, intelligence does the work. The outcomes flow back into every layer as better materials, cheaper power, faster chips and smarter models. The loop compounds.
Materials, chemistry and biology. The ground everything stands on.
Abundant power, and the chips that turn it into computation.
Software, data and networks the world can trust.
Intelligence, produced at industrial scale.
Agents and robots that act on the real world.
Cures, discoveries, abundance. And new atoms for the next turn.
Artificial intelligence, models, agents and data. Systems that reason, plan and discover, and the catalyst behind every other frontier.
Humanoids, autonomous systems and the models that drive them. Machines that see, move and build, and make hard things here again.
Chips, storage, networks and telecom, from silicon to quantum. The engine under every model.
Generation, storage, grids and new materials. Abundant power, the input to everything else.
Fintech, crypto, cyber and identity. The layer where value moves, and where it stays safe.
Automated labs, sensing, diagnostics and data. The infrastructure to extend lifespan and healthspan.
HeyHo Ventures is led by an engineer who follows the science and the code behind what you are building. The conversation starts where it matters, not with the basics.
Our founder built and ran companies and scaled teams as an executive before investing. Advice that comes from having done it, not from theory.
From years of following companies from first check to exit, we think about the decisions that compound: who to hire, who to raise from, when to sell.
A network built over decades in Silicon Valley and Latin America, across founders, operators and investors. Here from day zero, and for the long run.
We move quickly and work well alongside the investors you bring in. Clear answers, no friction, from the first close onward.
Manoel Lemos is an engineer who became a founder, an operator and then an investor. As Managing Partner at Redpoint eventures, one of Brazil’s leading venture firms, he backed founders across Latin America from early on. He moved to Silicon Valley to found HeyHo Ventures and back the next wave up close. He still writes code every week.
Select companies Manoel backed as an angel, through SPVs he led, and through venture funds where he was a partner.
Select companies: Creditas, RD Station, PsiQuantum, BeConfident, ElectricFish, The Residency, Pismo, Wellhub, Memed, Didit, Codata, Openlayer, BotCity, Amber AI, Advolve, Datamint, GrabrFi, Ualá.
That is when we want to meet. A deck is optional. A demo is welcome.
We are always glad to meet people who share our view of where technology is going.
