Investors / Poland / Hard2beat
Hard2beat
Venture capital · Wrocław, Poland · Europe
Hard2beat is an early-stage venture fund that invests in Polish deep tech startups with software-driven or hardware-enabled solutions. It provides initial checks of up to 3m PLN and follow-on funding of up to 5m PLN, alongside hands-on support in sales, R&D, fundraising and legal structuring.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software
In its own wordsdeep techsoftwarehardwarebiotechcybersecuritysemiconductors
Your fit with Hard2beat
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Or find every investor that fitsHard2beat lists 12 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), Healthcare & Biotech (26%) and Enterprise Software (16%). 89% of its companies are based in Poland. It invests most often alongside 42CAP, 4growth VC and Antler.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Hard2beat, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Hard2beat's whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 12. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| 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 | 3 | 3 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 30th | 12 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 26% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 16% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| Gaming | 5% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers12100%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 42CAP | 1 |
| 4growth VC | 1 |
| Antler | 1 |
| Apertu Capital | 1 |
| Begin Capital | 1 |
| Digital Ocean Ventures | 1 |
| Hartmann Capital | 1 |
| Heartfelt | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Hard2beat 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 Hard2beat| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Round | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 20 May 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 20 May 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 20 May 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Hard2beat
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Hard2beat's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
12 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cogniguard develops and provides a medical device for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive disorders | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| DefendEye develops and manufactures autonomous AI-powered drones for first responders and security teams to detect people and stream live video | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | May 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| The company provides a self-hosted enterprise WireGuard VPN platform with integrated security features. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | May 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Graftcode provides a cross-runtime communication layer that lets developers call methods across languages without APIs, queues, or SDKs. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ludus AI provides a complete AI toolkit for Unreal Engine developers | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Melanos Care develops bio-identical ingredients for protection, anti-aging, and natural aesthetics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Neuromedical is a research and development company developing solutions to treat Alzheimer's disease | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Pikralida realizes research and development projects in the field of medicinal products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Science4Beauty sells cosmetics with conotoxins for wrinkles | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| SEMIQA develops hardware for ultra-low-power, real-time AI inference at the edge using analog neural network technology | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a storage platform for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| WIDMO delivers comprehensive subsurface mapping services using its proprietary spectral ground penetrating radar technology | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- hard2beat.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 12
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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