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NP-Hard Ventures
Venture capital · Netherlands · Europe
NP-Hard Ventures is a European pre-seed fund. It invests in ambitious founders solving the hardest problems.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsNP-Hard Ventures lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (63%), Cybersecurity (13%) and Media & Entertainment (13%). 50% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside 201 Ventures, Access Ventures and Balderton Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name NP-Hard Ventures, 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 | 20% |
| Seed | 40% |
| Series A | 40% |
| 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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 201 Ventures | 1 |
| Access Ventures | 1 |
| Balderton Capital | 1 |
| CIV | 1 |
| CapitalT | 1 |
| Coalition Capital | 1 |
| IQ Capital | 1 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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 | 63% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Media & Entertainment | 13% | 4% |
| Gaming | 13% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare NP-Hard Ventures 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 NP-Hard Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 19 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Apr 2025 | Seed | |
| 11 Jul 2024 | Pre-Seed |
Round details for NP-Hard Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in NP-Hard Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortaegis develops a secure compute architecture for AI and quantum computing | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Isembard accelerates manufacturing for companies, particularly those involved in producing complex products like rockets, drones, and satellites. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides voice AI and speech recognition services for transcription in various languages. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides AI governance and GRC solutions to help enterprises manage and comply with AI regulations | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Jul 2024Pre-Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- nphard.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Jul 2024
- Companies checked
- 4
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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