Necessity is the Thesis.
Eat, heal, move, power, supply: the five Necessities society cannot do without. COVID revealed which industries had to keep running when everything else stopped. Now AI is rebuilding them, across four developed APAC markets.
- Eat
- Heal
- Move
- Power
- Supply
Source: hmm Ventures four-market classified dataset · 19,416 companies.
The four-market universe holds 19,416 companies. The regulation filter cuts it to 6,505 that either need a licence to operate or are compelled to comply. 2,625 of those are seed-stage and in the five Necessities, distributed across Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore. From that cohort, hmm backs around 25 companies at pre-seed and seed.
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