# Heuristic Capital

> Heuristic Capital is a VC fund in Santa Clara backing Medical and Health Care. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.heuristiccapital.com/

Heuristic Capital is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Medical and Health Care. Heuristic Capital Partners is an early stage hardware focused Venture Capital fund. We have the personal experiences from startup challenges to the euphoria of an IPO or merger. Matched with over 25 years of professional and personal venture investment experience, we strive to invest in and assist companies cross the hurdles of prototyping,financing, manufacturing, and business building. Please feel free to make a contact.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 5 | 25% |
| Health Care | 5 | 25% |
| Wellness | 3 | 15% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 15% |
| Medical Device | 3 | 15% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 55% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fermeate | Fermeate provides photomolecular fermentation technology to increase sustainability and efficiency in the biomanufacturing industry. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| Ember Copilot | Ember Copilot is a Software Development firm offering a tool to reduces medical claim denials. | $4.3M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Vindeca Health | Vindeca Health develops Intelligent Medication, an AI-powered platform that automates medication use evaluation for hospitals and health systems. The software analyzes real-world clinical and financial data to compare drugs on cost, safety, efficacy, length of stay, readmission rates, and workflows. It generates real-time insights, formularyoptimization recommendations, and proactive alerts for pharmacists, administrators, and providers. The platform integrates with wholesaler and EHR systems and is designed to support evidence-based medication strategy and personalized treatment decisions. |  | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| ProbiusDx | ProbiusDx is an electronic sensing company that provides a diagnostic technology for detecting and monitoring blood concentrations. | $3M | Series B | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Bend Labs | Bend Labs is a soft silicone sensor platform bringing smarter motion sensing to today's products. It has developed a new soft sensor platform for motion measurement, particularly around human and soft structure motion. The company's patented soft silicone bending, stretch and pressure sensor platforms will be the enabling technologyunderlying a significant portion of the tens of millions of smart garments, virtual reality gloves, and remote medical devices that are predicted to ship within the next five years.Bend Labs' primary goal is to enable sensor integration by partnering with companies working in the prototyping phase all the way up through large-scale commercial manufacturing and licensing. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. | $1.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Mantle | Mantle is an engineering and manufacturing company that has developed metal 3D printing technology to produce high-resolution parts that meet the critical needs of applications from automotive and aerospace to consumer product design and prototyping. | $25M | Series B | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Theta Labs | Theta Labs pioneered Theta Network, the leading video delivery network powered by blockchain technology. Theta enables existing video platforms to drive incremental revenues and reduce content delivery CDN costs while end-users are rewarded for sharing their bandwidth to relay video on a peer-to-peer basis on any PC, mobile, Smart TV or IoT device.Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures. | $100M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 23, 2021 |  |
| Hinge Health | Hinge Health is pioneering the world’s most patient-centered Digital Musculoskeletal (MSK) Clinic™. Four in five employers and 90% of health plans with a digital MSK solution have chosen Hinge Health. Hinge Health reduces MSK pain, surgeries, and opiate use by pairing advanced wearable sensors and computer vision technology with a comprehensiveClinical Care Team of physical therapists, physicians, board-certified health coaches, and more. Hinge Health’s HingeConnect integrates with 750,000+ in-person providers and enables real-time interventions for elective MSK surgeries, driving proven medical claims reduction. Available to over 12 million members, Hinge Health is the #1 Digital MSK Clinic with more than 500 employer and health plan customers, including Boeing, Salesforce, and US Foods. Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com. | $300M | Series D | Jan 05, 2021 |  |
| LARQ | LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably through innovative technology combined with inspirational design. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Foster City, California. | $10.7M | Series A | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Pointcloud | Pointcloud is a developer of a 3D imaging platform on a chip. The company offers a technology for big data analytics on 3D point clouds based on machine learning. It enables the future of augmented reality, robotics, and autonomous mobility. |  | Seed | Sep 25, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Propel(X)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/propelx) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Heuristic Capital invest in?

Heuristic Capital invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Heuristic Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Heuristic Capital closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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