HCVC backs founders on a mission to industrialize scientific and technological progress.

Six Hundred Founders↗

In 2015 we started Hardware Club, a community of more than 600 hardware startups. It grew into a fund that invests from inception to Series A.

Hard technology takes time. Lab results become prototypes. Prototypes become pilots. Pilots become factories. We stay for every step.

Founders we backed years ago now advise the ones we back today. They pass on suppliers, manufacturers and the lessons that cost them most.

Capital is the easy part. Founders call us about a supplier who slipped, a certification that stalled or a hire they cannot find. We pick up.

Cleaner energy, faster medicine and safer skies will not come from software alone. The founders who can build them are rare, and we look for them everywhere.

Hard problems, tough to copy. Exceptional founders, building industries the world will run on. If that sounds like what you are building, we want to hear from you.↗

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      Paris · London · San Francisco

      Our team has designed chips, trained equivariant generative models for molecules, published developmental biology research at the Crick, run Formula 1 teams, and founded frontier technology companies. In 2015, we built the world’s largest community for hardtech founders. Today we back pre-seed and seed founders across Europe and the US. If you are building the type of industries the world will run on, we want to hear from you.↗

      Hard problems, tough to copy. Exceptional founders, building industries the world will run on. If that sounds like what you are building, we want to hear from you.↗