V2VIN VOMERO

Curiosity compounds.

I run experiments.
Some become companies.

Founder and CEO of FoxyAI. I trained as a biologist, but spent the last twenty years running experiments in business instead of a lab.

Currently running 8 open experiments

FoxyAI

year eight

Software that reads a property photo the way a good appraiser would. I paid for the first few years myself, after a bad appraisal on a new development. Three HousingWire Tech100 wins in a row.

status: compounding

Hericea

pre-launch

Mushroom-led brain health, every ingredient at the dose the studies actually used.

status: founding batch

Echoes of the Moon

a coding experiment

A lunar colony sim I built to teach myself to code. There's a signal buried in it that isn't random.

status: still learning

Open source

new this year

Small tools and real bug fixes, all public. I don't write the code by hand. I build it with AI and ship it.

status: shipping

Biohacking

ongoing

One variable at a time, my own body as the lab. The biology degree finally has a subject who consents.

status: n=1

Triathlon

queued

Swim, bike, run. The first goal is just to finish one.

status: queued

Start and sell another business

open

Did it once. Now I want to know whether that was skill or luck.

status: watching for it

Furniture from a tree I milled

open

A tree I took down, milled into boards, drying in the garage until it becomes something worth keeping.

status: drying

A selected log, now back to 2004.

It's all one notebook. Every line started as a guess about what would happen, and the result is whatever actually did.

  1. 2026

    Moth and Cricket

    Hypothesis
    The tools I keep wishing existed are usually a weekend away.
    Method
    Two small desktop companions for coding with AI. Moth watches the usage meter from the corner of the screen; Cricket buzzes my phone the moment a run finishes. Both public.
    Result
    Confirmed. Strangers I've never met starred them. That still feels strange.
  2. 2026

    Bioinformatics, built with AI

    Hypothesis
    A biologist who doesn't write code can still fix the tools other scientists rely on.
    Method
    I'm not a software developer. I build with AI: I find a real bug, then steer the agents through the fix, the tests, and the pull request. It started with DendroPy, a phylogenetics library that grabbed every core on a shared cluster instead of just its share. There's a fix in review now for funannotate, a fungal genome annotation pipeline.
    Result
    Confirmed. Two fixes merged into DendroPy so far, more in review, and a lot more planned.
  3. 2026

    fastaddress

    Hypothesis
    A ten-year-old address parser can run eleven times faster without anyone changing a line of their code.
    Method
    I rebuilt the engine under usaddress in Rust and kept the Python interface identical, down to the exact outputs. My first open-source project, all of it public.
    Result
    Confirmed. 11.3x faster on a single core, with matching output across more than twenty thousand real addresses.
  4. 2025

    The half-mile swim

    Hypothesis
    I can swim half a mile in open water.
    Result
    Confirmed. June 28th. The full mile is next.
  5. 2024

    The third one

    Hypothesis
    Three is just two plus one.
    Method
    Kid number three. We had to give up man-to-man and switch to zone defense.
    Result
    Rejected. Outnumbered and outvoted, and I wouldn't change it.
  6. 2023

    Polar bear plunge

    Hypothesis
    I'll actually get in the water.
    Result
    Confirmed. It was exactly as cold as promised.
  7. 2022

    The second one

    Hypothesis
    We know what we're doing this time.
    Method
    Kid number two.
    Result
    Rejected. The second one hadn't read the first one’s manual.
  8. 2020

    The first one

    Hypothesis
    I'm ready to be a father.
    Result
    Rejected. Nothing prepares you for your first kid. Still the best thing that's ever happened to me.
  9. 2019

    Wild camping, Harriman State Park

    Hypothesis
    Do it again, and go farther in.
    Method
    Backcountry at Harriman, two years wiser about what to leave at home.
    Result
    Confirmed. The extra miles barely registered.
  10. 2018

    FoxyAI

    Hypothesis
    The photos already know what the appraisal missed.
    Method
    It started with a bad appraisal on my own property. I funded the early years myself and pointed neural networks at property photos until they could score condition on their own.
    Result
    Eight years in, still compounding
  11. 2017

    Wild camping, the Catskills

    Hypothesis
    You don't need a campground to camp.
    Method
    Kaaterskill Wild Forest. No site, no reservation, just a pack and a spot that looked right.
    Result
    Confirmed. Slept better on the ground than I do on most mattresses.
  12. 2017

    Diving Black Rock, Maui

    Hypothesis
    A honeymoon can spare one hour underwater.
    Method
    Puu Kekaa, off Kaanapali Beach. My brand-new wife was more than happy to get rid of me for an hour.
    Result
    Confirmed. Sea turtles and a wall of reef fish. Worth every minute I was gone.
  13. 2015

    Colivo

    Hypothesis
    The healthy-homes idea can scale past a single building.
    Method
    I took the NeWell playbook to Colivo, a co-living startup in Boston and Jersey City, as Chief Wellness Officer, 2015 to 2017.
    Result
    Concluded. We were a few years too early. I kept the playbook.
  14. 2015

    The 204 pound winter

    Hypothesis
    I can get to two hundred pounds of mostly muscle on a biology degree and a meal timer.
    Method
    Eat every two hours. Every night ended with half a pint of ice cream and a few spoonfuls of peanut butter.
    Result
    Confirmed. Hit 204 by winter, then stopped. No doctor would have signed off on the method.
  15. 2014

    NeWell

    Hypothesis
    A building designed around sleep is worth more than one that isn't.
    Method
    Circadian lighting, blackout shades, soundproofing, and treated air, built into a Charlestown ground-up for one to two percent of the budget.
    Result
    Confirmed. Healthy homes before that was a category. We were early, and going after the wrong market, but it earned me the wellness seat at Colivo.
  16. 2014

    The IDPA match

    Hypothesis
    Beginner’s luck is a real, measurable thing.
    Method
    Harvard Sportsman’s Club, my first sanctioned match, shooting a Ruger SR9c. Wrong gun for it, for the record.
    Result
    Confirmed. Shot well enough to place. First-timers aren't allowed to place, so officially I didn't.
  17. 2013

    Forza Development

    Hypothesis
    Boston multifamily is underpriced if you actually know the buildings.
    Method
    Gut renovations first, ground-up construction later. I wanted to understand a building before I bet money on one.
    Result
    Confirmed. More than forty million dollars placed by 2018, and some of the best work of my life.
  18. 2013

    The CrossFit team competition

    Hypothesis
    Marco and I can hang with real competitors.
    Method
    A team competition. Pistols were involved, the squatting kind.
    Result
    Partially confirmed. We won one event, the longest combined standing long jump, and nothing else.
  19. 2012

    Tough Mudder, Mt. Snow

    Hypothesis
    My quads will forgive me.
    Method
    Ten miles up and down a mountain, with friends, in kilts.
    Result
    Rejected. They didn't forgive me for a week. Still the hardest day I've had on foot.
  20. 2010

    Making Moves

    Hypothesis
    A recession is a good time to make a show about starting anyway.
    Method
    An eight-episode web series about our Boston businesses, made to talk other twenty-year-olds into starting something of their own. One Sam Adams cameo.
    Result
    Confirmed. College TV picked it up and a few production companies called.
  21. 2010

    Boston University

    Hypothesis
    Studying biology and business at the same time will pay off eventually.
    Method
    Four years at BU. Biology major, business minor. The two classes I still think about: cell biology, and cell motility and the cytoskeleton.
    Result
    Confirmed. I use the biology more now than I did at twenty-two. The business built everything else.
  22. 2009

    Hodara Property Management

    Hypothesis
    Three college kids can run a real estate agency.
    Method
    Eleven thousand dollars in savings, an office in Allston, and one rule: every property we managed got a visit every week.
    Result
    Confirmed. Sold it in 2013 after four years. It's the reason I never stopped starting things.
  23. 2005

    The backcountry run, Vail

    Hypothesis
    The sign is a suggestion.
    Method
    Ride the lift, then hike the ridge higher, past the skull and crossbones that says you're leaving the park and could die. Strap in. Drop a three-foot cliff.
    Result
    Confirmed. A whole bowl of untouched powder, and no air left by the bottom.
  24. 2004

    The wall dive

    Hypothesis
    The sea floor isn't the bottom.
    Method
    Turks and Caicos. Follow the shelf at sixty feet to the edge, then drop the wall to a hundred. Below that it keeps going for thousands.
    Result
    Confirmed. Something large came up out of the dark to look at us. I still think about it most weeks.

Experiments I funded

Other people’s hypotheses I wanted to see tested.

  • Relativity Space. Hypothesis: Rockets can be 3D printed.
  • Flowhub. Hypothesis: Cannabis retail deserves real software.
  • Dip Devices. Hypothesis: Better hardware wins.

Giving back

The part of the log that was never about me.

Selected writing

Mostly about teaching machines to look at buildings.