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HCVC
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HCVC is an early-stage deeptech venture capital firm that backs founders on a mission to industrialize scientific and technological progress. The firm invests in companies that automate and digitize the physical world, partnering with software- or hardware-based product companies that can create long-term competitive advantages through technical defensibility. HCVC focuses on transformative sectors including frontier biotech, defense, AI infrastructure, robotics, climate, and space, investing from pre-seed through Series A with check sizes ranging from $100k to $2.5m across Europe and North America. The firm also manages Hardware Club, a global selective community of 500+ hardtech startups, which serves as its primary sourcing channel.
Notable quotes
“We want to back founders that create a future with more clean energy, more powerful computing, more context-aware robots, better defense tools for democracies and biomanufacturing that enables us to decarbonize food production.”
“kyron.bio's technology bridges a massive gap in therapeutics design. Their breakthrough in glycan control could shift the paradigm for antibody therapies, and we're proud to support their vision.”
“HCVC is a thesis-driven venture capital firm that backs hardtech founders on a mission to DIGITIZE, AUTOMATE and DECARBONIZE the physical world. We currently manage 2 pre-seed/seed funds totaling 110M€+.”
Recent investments
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Vsquared Ventures | 2 |
| Verve Ventures | 2 |
| Entrepreneur First | 2 |
| Isomer Capital | 1 |
| Molten Ventures | 1 |
| Expeditions Fund | 1 |
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