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Hardware Club

Founders Alexis Houssou Barbara Belvisi

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Total investments 75
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 46
Rounds per year 8.33
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Machine Learning
  • Manufacturing
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

atmio

$6M20 Jun 2024 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Surge2surgery

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
$6M27 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Chiral Nano

Electronics
Nanotechnology
$3M27 Feb 2024 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Transmutex

Nuclear
Renewable Energy
$21M29 Jan 2024 Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland

Nūmi

Biotechnology
Personal Health
Women's
$3M08 Nov 2023 Suresnes, Ile-de-France, France

Lambda Automata

Artificial Intelligence
Homeland Security
National Security
$7M18 Oct 2023 Athens, Attiki, Greece

Antaris

Software
Space Travel
$3M06 Sep 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

Chef Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Restaurants
Robotics
$11M26 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

atmio

$1M01 Apr 2023 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
News
Alcatraz AI Raises Additional $6.1M in Funding

– Alcatraz AI from Redwood City develops secure access control solutions.
– The company raised $6.1m in funding.
– Backers included Ray Stata (lead), Hardware Club, Mucker Capital, JCI Ventures, the venture capital arm of Johnson Controls, and LDV Partners.
– The new investment will be aimed at product development and expansion of foothold in the market.

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Total investments 75
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 8.33
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

atmio

$6M20 Jun 2024 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Surge2surgery

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
$6M27 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Chiral Nano

Electronics
Nanotechnology
$3M27 Feb 2024 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Transmutex

Nuclear
Renewable Energy
$21M29 Jan 2024 Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland

Nūmi

Biotechnology
Personal Health
Women's
$3M08 Nov 2023 Suresnes, Ile-de-France, France

Lambda Automata

Artificial Intelligence
Homeland Security
National Security
$7M18 Oct 2023 Athens, Attiki, Greece

Antaris

Software
Space Travel
$3M06 Sep 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

Chef Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Restaurants
Robotics
$11M26 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

atmio

$1M01 Apr 2023 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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