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HCVC

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Investment thesis

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.

Alexis Houssou · TechCrunch – HCVC is back with a new $75 million deep tech fund · 2023-10-03

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.

Alexis Houssou · GlobeNewswire – HCVC leads kyron.bio €5.5M round · 2025-05-28

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€+.

Jerry Yang · LinkedIn – Jerry Yang, General Partner at HCVC

Recent investments

CompanyRoundSizeDate
ChiralSeed$12m2026-02-06
LenduraiSeed$6m2025
Kyron.bioSeed$6m2025-05-28
Fuse VectorsPre-seed$5m2025-02
Alpine EagleSeed$11m2025-03
Dyna RoboticsPre-seed2024
Karman+Seed$20m2024
Renaissance FusionSeed2023
Cosmic RoboticsPre-seed$4m2024
CowboySeries B$26m2020-07

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