HCVC
Venture capital · Paris, France · Europe
HCVC is a venture fund that backs founders building hard technology companies. It began in 2015 as Hardware Club, a community of hardware startups, and now invests from inception to Series A.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordshardtechhardwaredeep techclimatehealthcarefrontier technology
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Or find every investor that fitsHCVC lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 12 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (44%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and Space & Defense (13%). 30% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Alven, Expeditions and Founderful.
Counts come from funding rounds that name HCVC, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 10% |
| Seed | 80% |
| Series A | 10% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 6 | 2 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 90% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 78th | 44% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Alven | 2 |
| Expeditions | 2 |
| Founderful | 2 |
| Acequia Capital | 1 |
| Amino Collective | 1 |
| Anzu Partners | 1 |
| Crane Venture Partners | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 44% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 13% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 13% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare HCVC 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 HCVC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 5 Jun 2025 | Seed | |
| 28 May 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for HCVC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in HCVC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Eagle provides scalable defence capabilities against autonomous threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Antaris simplifies and automates the design, simulation, and operation of satellite missions | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Mar 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Chiral develops semiconductor manufacturing equipment to fabricate electronic transistors with nanomaterials. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Mar 2024Seed · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Exclaim Robotics builds robots to maintain AI data centers by performing tasks such as replacing failed components and routine rack maintenance. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Fuse Vectors develops and manufactures viral vectors for gene therapy using a cell-free technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Karman+ is a company that designs and builds spacecraft for deep space missions, including asteroid targeting and exploration | Space & Defense | Feb 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Kyron Bio unlocks precise, programmable control over N-glycans, enabling new therapeutic design choices that can improve efficacy, stability and functionality. | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Lendurai builds software-first systems, engineers key hardware, and develops drones that work in high-risk environments | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Navier builds AI agents that design, simulate, and code hardware | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Dec 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Rivercell builds data platforms and AI models to predict how human cells respond to treatment | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- hcvc.co
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Mar 2024
- Companies checked
- 10
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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