HCVC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

74

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

46

Rounds per year

8.22

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsManufacturingHardwareConsumer ElectronicsInternet of ThingsRenewable Energy

Summary

Hardware Club appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Alexis Houssou, Barbara Belvisi.

Opposing the other organizations, this Hardware Club works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Hardware Club, startups are often financed by Elephants & Ventures, Y Combinator, Pitch@Palace. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kima Ventures, Partech, LocalGlobe. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iGlobe Partners, Passion Capital, LVP.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Internet of Things. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Bellwether Coffee, Augmenta, Lima

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techMobility
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K β€” 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 75000000
Fund raised date
2023-10-03

Analytics

Total investments
74
Lead investments
10
Exits
3
Rounds per year
8.22
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (25)
  • Artificial Intelligence (16)
  • Robotics (14)
  • Machine Learning (12)
  • Hardware (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (33)
  • Belgium (5)
  • United Kingdom (9)
  • France (11)
  • Croatia (4)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
atmio 20 Jun 2024 Seed 6M Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Giraffe360 30 Nov 2022 Real Estate, Information Technology, Commercial Real Estate Early Stage Venture 18M England, London, United Kingdom
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