Jet Investment announces USD 750,000 investment in US AI startup Hermetiq

Founded in 2025 in San Francisco, Hermetiq develops a build intelligence platform. Before code becomes a working product, it must go through the build process – compiling, linking and testing. At the world's largest engineering organizations that process runs on Bazel, an open-source system originally developed at Google: extraordinarily powerful, but complex. When a build breaks, diagnosing it today requires scarce and expensive specialist engineers while the rest of the development team waits. Hermetiq automates that work – it observes every build, identifies the cause of failure, and is moving toward full automation of repairs without human intervention.

One of the world’s four leading AI companies uses Hermetiq’s platform in production. Hermetiq processes telemetry from more than 2 million builds per day for this customer, generating more than 3 billion build events in total. This makes it one of the most technically demanding environments in the world and provides the strongest possible validation of the solution’s scalability. The platform is also being tested by e-commerce company Etsy in a pilot program. 

"With the rise of agentic coding, AI generates many times more code, faster and with minimal human oversight. The number of errors and build failures is therefore rising steeply – but the supply of build engineers is not," said Kamil Levinský, Managing Director of Jet Venture 1. "Deployment at one of the world’s four leading AI companies, in a highly technically demanding environment, is the strongest possible validation of this solution’s scalability.”

"Software development is being automated, but the build process itself is not – not even at the most advanced organizations," added Jake Newfield, CEO of Hermetiq. "Our goal is to build an intelligence layer that can not only explain a build but repair it. Jet Investment's backing will allow us to strengthen our engineering team and accelerate the development of that automation."

The transaction fits Jet Investment's strategy of expanding its venture capital portfolio of innovative technology companies. The investment in Hermetiq follows previous investments in Partory, International Automotive Group, Cequence, Boost.space, Headmade Materials, Digicust, DecisionRules and GigaScan.

About Jet Investment

Jet Investment a.s., a Czech investment company founded in 1997, specializes in investments in Central European industry. It manages assets totaling CZK 17 billion, including uncalled capital, across four qualified investor funds.

Jet Investment’s private equity funds invest in medium-sized industrial companies in Central Europe with strong growth potential. The portfolio includes companies such as 2JCP, EDS, Likov, Fiberpreg, Plastiwell, Náš Chléb, V. L. Brno and Toboga, employing approximately 5,100 people. In the past, Jet Investment has managed and successfully exited a number of industrial companies, including Rockfin, Tedom, Less&Timber, Kordárna Plus, MSV Metal Studénka, Benet Automotive nebo PBS Power Equipment.

The Jet Industrial Lease real estate fund focuses on industrial real estate and manages a portfolio of 12 projects across Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.

Jet Venture 1, established in 2024, invests in startups in the industrial B2B sector.

Jet Investment is co-owned by four partners — Igor Fait, Marek Malík, Lubor Turza and Libor Šparlinek — and its investments are managed by an international team of more than 40 professionals based in the Czech Republic (Prague, Brno) and Poland (Warsaw).

For more information, visit www.jetinvestment.cz/en.