# Lachy Groom

> Lachy Groom is a seed investor at Physical Intelligence backing Software. See 70 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Physical Intelligence](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/physical-intelligence-834b)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 70
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lachy-groom-b218895/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/LachyGroom
- Website: https://x.com/LachyGroom

Lachy Groom is a seed investor at Physical Intelligence in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$12M |
| Series A | $10M–$70M |
| Series B | $16M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 16% |
| Health Care | 9 | 13% |
| Developer Tools | 5 | 7% |

102 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 31% |
| Series A | 19 | 27% |
| Series B | 11 | 16% |
| Series C | 6 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 41 | 59% |
| India | 5 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Luminate | Luminate is an oncology-focused healthtech and tech-enabled services company that partners with payers, providers, and people with cancer to reduce the cost of cancer care while improving quality of life and outcomes for patients. The company offers a portfolio of services and technologies that enable home-based cancer treatment, adverse eventmonitoring, and prevention of drug-induced side effects. | $21M | Series A | Jan 07, 2026 |  |
| Even | Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost. | $20M | Series A | Jan 06, 2026 |  |
| Turbopuffer | Turbopuffer offers a serverless vector database built on top of object storage, providing significant cost savings and scalability. The platform is designed to be 10x-100x cheaper with usage-based pricing, making it an efficient solution for managing large-scale data. Turbopuffer's architecture ensures massive scalability and ease of use,catering to the needs of modern data-driven applications. |  | Seed | Dec 19, 2025 |  |
| Chai Discovery | Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $130M | Series B | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Airbound | Airbound aims to enable 100km delivery at 20rs ($0.25) to every corner of the world. We're able to do this by building the world's first blended wing body tailsitter, which allows us to have a much smaller and cheaper frame, and a 0 infrastructure requirement. We want to bring this technology to the most rural parts of India, where therecurrently in no delivery service, and enable essential medical deliveries between Community Health Centers (CHCs), Primary Health Centers (CHCs), and Subcenters (SCs). | $8.7M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Craftwork | Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners. | $1M |  | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Chai Discovery | Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $70M | Series A | Aug 06, 2025 |  |
| Ashby | Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $50M | Series D | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Meter | Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses, handling everything needed to get great internet, networking, Wi-Fi, and cell coverage in a space. Their unified stack—enterprise hardware, software, and operations—is purpose-built, scalable, and delivered as a service for one predictable monthly fee. Today, some of the largest companies andenduring institutions rely on Meter to keep their thousands of employees and locations online and productive. Meter is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capital firms, investors, and founders. | $170M | Series C | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Netic | Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making . |  | Seed | Jun 02, 2025 |  |

10 of 70 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Physical Intelligence

VC Fund

Physical Intelligence is a company working on integrating general-purpose AI with robotics and physical devices. While still in the early stages, Physical Intelligence is actively seeking new team members and aims to share more information soon.

2 contacts available at Physical Intelligence.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lachy Groom | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lachy-groom-ea0a |
| Lachy Groom | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lachy-groom |

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## FAQ

### What does Lachy Groom invest in?

Lachy Groom invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 70 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lachy Groom's check size?

Lachy Groom typically joins rounds of $3M–$12M at Seed, $10M–$70M at Series A and $16M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lachy Groom participates in.

### When did Lachy Groom last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lachy Groom closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 70 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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