John Murphy

Hyperplane Venture Capital, Co-founder and Managing Partner

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Investor / Board Member
Jan 2019
We believe extraordinary sensory experiences are essential to living a rich life. To create a better-tasting world, we created Gastrograph AI, the world-leading discovery and inquiry platform for sensory insights that model people and products to predict consumer preferences. We specialize in helping companies create new products, optimize existing brands, and enter new markets by building better, more targeted flavor profiles for a specific target consumer demographic.
Investor / Board Member
Nov 2018
LinkSquares unlocks the full potential of legal teams at more than 1,000 companies, including Wayfair, TIME, ProPharma, the Boston Celtics, and Commvault with purpose-built, AI-powered technology to perform, manage, and quantify all their work in one place. Legal teams rely on our all-in-one CLM and legal project management platform to manage key priorities and contracts, accelerate workflows across the business, and use data to visualize the impact of their work. Our solutions save companies hundreds of hours and millions of dollars by eliminating manual processes and driving better consistency of process, communication, and quality. Headquartered in Boston, MA, LinkSquares is consistently recognized for being a leader in innovation, delivering results, and company growth.
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2018
Our developer tools: * f0cal/farm -- For spinning devices up and down on our device farm. * f0cal/my-device -- For managing your own fleet of devices. * f0cal/my-code -- For testing and tracking how your code performs on different hardware.
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2018
Now owned by and on the only network purpose-built for construction, ReconDynamics, Pillar more reliably delivers critical real-time jobsite TXT alerts and automatic trend reports for temperature, humidity, and six other airborne conditions. These alerts reduce damage and create a paper trail that proves you did everything right when something goes wrong. Turn it on and let it go to work for you.
Investor
Sep 2016
Spiro is an AI-powered CRM designed specifically for manufacturers and distributors. The Spiro platform highlights the customers that need attention or present growth opportunities, and proactively recommends specific actions to be taken. Customers save time with Spiro’s automated data collection, and grow their business by 32% within the first two years of using Spiro.
Experience · 9 entries
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2019
Pickle Robot Company
Investor / Board Member
Apr 2019
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2019
We believe extraordinary sensory experiences are essential to living a rich life. To create a better-tasting world, we created Gastrograph AI, the world-leading discovery and inquiry platform for sensory insights that model people and products to predict consumer preferences. We specialize in helping companies create new products, optimize existing brands, and enter new markets by building better, more targeted flavor profiles for a specific target consumer demographic.
2018
Investor / Board Member
Nov 2018
LinkSquares unlocks the full potential of legal teams at more than 1,000 companies, including Wayfair, TIME, ProPharma, the Boston Celtics, and Commvault with purpose-built, AI-powered technology to perform, manage, and quantify all their work in one place. Legal teams rely on our all-in-one CLM and legal project management platform to manage key priorities and contracts, accelerate workflows across the business, and use data to visualize the impact of their work. Our solutions save companies hundreds of hours and millions of dollars by eliminating manual processes and driving better consistency of process, communication, and quality. Headquartered in Boston, MA, LinkSquares is consistently recognized for being a leader in innovation, delivering results, and company growth.
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2018
Our developer tools: * f0cal/farm -- For spinning devices up and down on our device farm. * f0cal/my-device -- For managing your own fleet of devices. * f0cal/my-code -- For testing and tracking how your code performs on different hardware.
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2018
Now owned by and on the only network purpose-built for construction, ReconDynamics, Pillar more reliably delivers critical real-time jobsite TXT alerts and automatic trend reports for temperature, humidity, and six other airborne conditions. These alerts reduce damage and create a paper trail that proves you did everything right when something goes wrong. Turn it on and let it go to work for you.
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2016–2019 · 6 investments
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