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Christopher R. Hemmeter is a San Francisco-based venture capitalist and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) executive, best known as the co-founder and Managing Director of Thayer Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on technology companies in the travel, hospitality, and mobility sectors. He currently serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-President, Secretary, and Director of Thayer Ventures Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: TVAI), a SPAC sponsored by Thayer Ventures. Hemmeter originally served as the SPAC's sole CEO from February 2024 until January 2025, at which point he transitioned to the co-CEO and co-president role alongside Mark E. Farrell, who also serves as Chief Financial Officer and Director. In his capacity as CEO and Director, Hemmeter leads the sponsor team's investment decisions, leveraging his deep expertise in travel and hospitality technology to identify and evaluate potential target companies for the SPAC.
Beyond his SPAC role, Hemmeter has built a career as an emerging technology venture capitalist with a particular focus on the travel and hospitality space. Through Thayer Ventures, he invests primarily in Series A and Series B stage companies in the hospitality and travel technology sectors. His investment thesis centers on the intersection of technology and the travel industry, an area where he has developed significant influence and domain expertise. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including the Phocuswright Conference and Phocuswright Europe, where he shares insights on venture capital trends in travel and mobility technology.
Hemmeter also holds a significant board position at Inspirato Inc. (NASDAQ: ISPO), a luxury travel subscription service, where he serves as a director and 10 percent owner. His involvement with Inspirato dates back to at least December 2020, according to SEC ownership filings. This position complements his broader investment focus on travel technology and hospitality innovation. Based on SEC filings, his mailing address is listed in Valencia, California (91355), though his professional base is in San Francisco.
It is worth noting that Christopher R. Hemmeter is the son of the late Christopher B. Hemmeter (1939–2003), the renowned real estate developer who pioneered the concept of destination resorts in Hawaii and transformed the Hawaiian tourism industry in the 1980s with lavish mega-resorts such as the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, Hyatt Regency Waikoloa, Westin Kauai, and Westin Maui. The elder Hemmeter graduated first in his class from Cornell University's hotel management program in 1962 and went on to build a fortune in Hawaiian resort development before experiencing significant setbacks with a failed New Orleans casino project in the 1990s. The younger Hemmeter has channeled his family's deep legacy in hospitality and travel into a modern venture capital and public markets career, applying that generational industry knowledge to technology investing in the same sectors his father helped define.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001828705 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 12 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 7 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.