# Lorimer Ventures **Aliases:** @LorimerVentures **Domain:** Venture Capital / Enterprise AI / Industrial Systems / Frontier Technology **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developed **Epistemic State:** Firm, thesis, portfolio, and co-investment paths documented; direct Subsense investment not established ## Definition **Lorimer Ventures is a Brooklyn-based inception-stage venture firm founded in 2019.** The firm describes itself as operator-led and currently frames its thesis around AI's deployment phase: AI infrastructure, deterministic world models for industrial assets, AI-driven materials discovery, quantum sensing and compute enablement, and AI-enabled energy and resource development. ## Subsense adjacency Bryant identified an unusual social-graph adjacency involving `@LorimerVentures` and `@subsenseBCI`. That observation is preserved as a research signal, not upgraded into a financial claim. As of September 7, 2026, the materials reviewed for these entries do not document Lorimer as a direct investor in [[wiki/Subsense BCI|Subsense BCI]], and Subsense does not appear in Lorimer's published portfolio. ## Documented one-degree bridge Lorimer and Subsense do have a concrete one-degree professional-network connection through **Formic**, **Lux Capital**, and **Shahin Farshchi**: - Formic's January 2022 Series A was led by Lux Capital, with Shahin Farshchi joining Formic's board and Lorimer Ventures participating in the same round. - Lorimer's portfolio and public materials identify Formic as a portfolio company. - Farshchi participated in Subsense's September 2026 Annual Forum concerning the scaling of brain-computer interfaces and AI. - Farshchi's technical record includes a 2006 peer-reviewed wireless neural-interface paper. The conservative graph is therefore **Lorimer Ventures → Formic ← Lux Capital / Shahin Farshchi → Subsense**. It establishes shared capital and professional-network adjacency through a relevant intermediary. It does not establish a direct Lorimer–Subsense investment, advance knowledge of Kurzweil's appointment, or coordination within the observed X network. ## Convergence position Lorimer occupies the capital-and-deployment layer of a broader convergence: industrial and physical AI, infrastructure, materials, energy, and the movement of machine intelligence into consequential real-world systems. [[wiki/Subsense BCI|Subsense]] occupies the prospective neural-interface layer, while [[wiki/Ray Kurzweil|Ray Kurzweil]] supplies a long intellectual lineage for AI, nanotechnology, cognition, and human-machine merger. Their convergence is asymmetrical and should not be represented as a single corporate chain. ## Routes [[wiki/Subsense BCI|Subsense BCI]] · [[wiki/Ray Kurzweil|Ray Kurzweil]] · [[wiki/Robotics|Robotics]] · [[wiki/Material Sciences|Material Sciences]] · [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]] · [[wiki/Cicada 3301|Cicada 3301]] ## Sources / Provenance - Lorimer Ventures, [Thesis](https://www.lorimerventures.com/thesis). - Lorimer Ventures, [Portfolio](https://www.lorimerventures.com/portfolio). - Lorimer Ventures, [Team](https://lorimerventures.com/team). - Formic, [Formic's Series A Raise](https://formic.co/resources/articles/formics-series-a-raise), January 18, 2022. - PubMed, [A TinyOS-enabled MICA2-based wireless neural interface](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16830946/), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, July 2006. - Bryant-supplied network-convergence research memoranda, September 7, 2026 — source of the original X-adjacency observation and layered interpretation.