Chris Hemmeter
Co-founder & Managing Director @ Thayer Investment Partners
San Francisco, United States
Chris Hemmeter is a Series A investor at Thayer Investment Partners in San Francisco focused on Travel and SaaS. Chris has spent his entire professional life in and around startups and high-growth businesses in the hospitality, travel and technology space having founded six companies during his 30 years in business. Today he is a co-founder and Managing Director of Thayer Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in emerging technology companies in thehospitality and travel space. Immediately Prior to Thayer Ventures, Chris was founder and President of iCare Marketing (sold to Sysco Foodservice Corporation in 2012) and founder and CEO of Dynamic Payment Ventures (sold to Elavon, a subsidiary of US Bank in 2007). Prior to that, Chris was founder and CEO of CriticalArc Technologies, a supply-chain software provider to the foodservice industry, founder of E&O Kitchen and Bar, a casual dining chain based in San Francisco, founder of The Hemmeter Collection, a direct response retailer and founder of Hemmeter Publishing, a publisher and distributor of travel books and content. Upon graduating from Cornell University in 1986, Chris joined Hemmeter Investment Company, a real estate developer of destination-resort properties. Founded by his father in 1962, the Hemmeter organization developed major destination resort hotels in Hawaii and operated several related hospitality and travel businesses in the foodservice, gaming, retail and aviation sectors.Chris received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Cornell University and his graduate degree from Harvard Business School in 1995, where he was recognized as a Baker Scholar for his academic achievement.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
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Industries Chris Hemmeter invests in
Stages Chris Hemmeter invests in
Countries Chris Hemmeter invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 7 (41%)
- SaaS 4 (24%)
- Software 4 (24%)
- E-Commerce 3 (18%)
- Information Services 3 (18%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (41%)
- Series B 5 (29%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 9 (53%)
- Spain 1 (6%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
- Switzerland 1 (6%)
Investments
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Amenitiz
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We created Amenitiz because we believe technology is the key to making success and profitability accessible to every hotelier in the world - whether they are in the heart of Paris or in the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia. Our mission is to build an all-in-one platform to help owners grow and manage their vacation properties by making attractingguests, managing bookings and crafting exceptional experiences, simple and easy. We invite you to be part of our growing community and help us redefine the future of online hospitality together. | $45M / Series B / Nov 11, 2025 | |
Cruisebound
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Cruisebound is a travel agency on a mission to make the joy of cruising available to the masses by simplifying the booking experience. | $13M / Series A / Oct 02, 2024 | |
point.me
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point.me is the maker of an online search tool that makes it easy to discover real-time reward flight options.With point.me, you can not only compare all your points and miles options in the same simple format you’re used to seeing for paid flights, you can also see step-by-step guides and videos on exactly how to choose the best deal, transferyour points, and book your reward flight across dozens of frequent flyer programs. | $15M / Series B / Sep 18, 2024 | |
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point.me
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point.me is the maker of an online search tool that makes it easy to discover real-time reward flight options.With point.me, you can not only compare all your points and miles options in the same simple format you’re used to seeing for paid flights, you can also see step-by-step guides and videos on exactly how to choose the best deal, transferyour points, and book your reward flight across dozens of frequent flyer programs. | $10M / Series A / Sep 05, 2023 | |
HyperGuest Ltd.
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HyperGuest’s technology platform empowers hotels and travel providers to deliver rooms with maximum efficiency. | $23M / Series A / Jul 07, 2023 | |
Beekeeper
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Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time messaging and targeted streams. Managers keep frontline teams productive and turnover low by automating workflows while leveraging an analytics dashboard to measure engagement. Beekeeper integrates with operational systems, makingthem accessible in one central portal. | $50M / Series C / Nov 08, 2022 | |
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Beekeeper
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Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time messaging and targeted streams. Managers keep frontline teams productive and turnover low by automating workflows while leveraging an analytics dashboard to measure engagement. Beekeeper integrates with operational systems, makingthem accessible in one central portal. | $50M / Series C / Nov 08, 2021 | |
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Beekeeper
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Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time messaging and targeted streams. Managers keep frontline teams productive and turnover low by automating workflows while leveraging an analytics dashboard to measure engagement. Beekeeper integrates with operational systems, makingthem accessible in one central portal. | $10M / Series B / Jul 10, 2020 | |
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Beekeeper
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Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time messaging and targeted streams. Managers keep frontline teams productive and turnover low by automating workflows while leveraging an analytics dashboard to measure engagement. Beekeeper integrates with operational systems, makingthem accessible in one central portal. | $45M / Series B / Sep 16, 2019 | |
QLess
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QLess is the world's first Mobile, Remote and Interactive Queueing, FlexAppointments, Analytics, Real-Time CRM & Marketing platform. QLess sends voice calls and text messages to your customers' cell phones, so they're free to roam as far as their cell coverage will take them. QLess also lets customers opt-in to SMS promotionsfrom the merchant, and lets merchants easily build an SMS marketing channel.QLess is an award-winning wireless solution that has saved more than ten million users from more than 250 straight years standing in line at DMVs, restaurants, retail stores for Fortune 100 companies, shopping malls, doctors' offices, colleges and hundreds of other locations across four continents, as featured in The New York Times, WSJ, TechCrunch, CNET, Mashable, Fortune, PCWorld, NBC, ABC, Fox and many other leading news outlets. QLess was the winner of six 2013 International Business Awards including: IT Executive of the Year, Innovator of the Year, Company of the Year – Computer Services, Most Innovative Company of the Year in Canada and the US, Company of the Year – Computer Software, and Executive of the Year – Computer Software, the Best Overall Business Services Company of the Year Under 100 Employees by the American Business Awards in 2010, named one of the Best Business Innovations of the year by the 2009 American Business Awards, one of the ten most promising new technology companies by Vator & The Funded. QLess partners include BT, Alcatel Lucent and Telefonica, and clients include Vodafone, the states of TX, MI, KS, the Universities of CA & TX, the largest community college districts in the nation, Cleveland Clinic and many others. Investors include the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and successful entrepreneurs. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 20, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in technology companies with a focus on the travel industry. This industry represent more than $10 trillion in annual global economic activity, is thriving with entrepreneurial activity due to disruptive changes within the sector that began more than a decade ago. Recent consumer trends have accelerated thisdisruption for operators across the travel world, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology providers to make significant inroads into what was previously a closed market. Additionally, travel industry suppliers are dealing with massive shifts in travel planning, organizing and booking driven by the Internet and social media platforms. As a result, the travel industry is being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to exploit the opportunities created by this shifting consumer behavior. The combination of these factors has created a unique environment for innovative technology providers to make significant inroads into this massive, growing, and evolving marketplace.
Thayer Investment Partners Contacts
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Chris Hemmeter
Co-founder & Managing Director
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Katherine Grass
Venture Partner
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Jeffery M. Jackson
Managing Director
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Leland Pillsbury
Managing Director
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Mark E. Farrell
Managing Director
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What does Chris Hemmeter invest in?
Chris Hemmeter invests primarily in Travel, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Chris Hemmeter last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Hemmeter closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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