Investors / United States / Hanover
Hanover
Venture capital · Portola Valey, CA, United States · North America
Hanover is a venture capital fund founded and led by Joseph Malchow. It helps founders build foundational technologies into durable businesses.
Invests inEnterprise SoftwareIndustrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces
In its own wordsenergydata infrastructureenterprise automationhardwaresimulationdeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsHanover lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Enterprise Software (33%), Industrial & Manufacturing (17%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (17%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Adapt Nation Capital, Ansa and Better Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Hanover, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundHanover does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Adapt Nation Capital | 1 |
| Ansa | 1 |
| Better Ventures | 1 |
| Buoyant Ventures | 1 |
| Caffeinated | 1 |
| Climate Capital | 1 |
| Communitas Capital | 1 |
| Conviction | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Software | 33% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 17% | 6% |
| Climate & Energy | 17% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Adapt Nation Capital
Compare Hanover head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Hanover| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Apr 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 14 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Jan 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Hanover
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Hanover's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Loop solves time-to-power for industry by providing behind-the-meter batteries and intelligent controls that dynamically shift between grid power, storage, and on-site generation. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Gravity provides a platform for carbon and energy management for enterprises | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Simple AI develops and implements AI phone agents for customer interactions and sales. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- hnvr.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 3
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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