# Aymerik Renard

> Aymerik Renard is a seed investor at HCVC backing Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [HCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hardwareclub)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aymerik
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aymerik
- Website: https://x.com/aymerik
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aymerik
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mhossein.ashrafi

Aymerik Renard is a General Partner at HCVC and was a Director at Western Digital Capital. He attended Carnegie Mellon University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 43% |
| Computer Vision | 2 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| AgTech | 1 | 14% |
| Farming | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Greece | 2 | 29% |
| United States | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spectrohm | Spectrohm is the next generation of internal imaging. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Delian Alliance Industries | Lambda Automata builds autonomous systems tailored for addressing national security challenges in the EU and its allies. | $6.3M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Spectrohm | Spectrohm is the next generation of internal imaging. | $2M | Seed | May 02, 2022 |  |
| Vitesse Automation | Vitesse Automation is committed to helping factories improve production while reducing consumption, pollution, and waste. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 04, 2021 |  |
| Alcatraz AI | Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 15, 2020 |  |
| Augmenta | Augmenta started its operations at the start of 2017, in Athens, Greece, by George Varvarelis and Dimitris Evangelopoulos, both farmers and embedded systems engineers and offers an Artificial Intelligence based solution comprised of a hardware device and a web platform, to any farmer, anywhere in the world that wants to have the best possibleefficiency for every inch of his land and ultimately increase his seasonal net income. Augmenta’s “Field Analyzer”, is a plug and play device that can be attached to any tractor and can determine the amount of fertilizers, fungicides and pesticides that every inch of the farm needs to reach to its full potential, all in real-time. Furthermore, Field Analyzer is capable of controlling agricultural machinery (e.g. fertilizer spreaders) also in real-time, applying the optimal amount of chemicals into every inch of the farm completely automatically and without the farmer lifting a finger. Finally, the farmer can use Augmenta’s field-viewer, the company’s easy to use web platform, to observe the progression of his field through visual data analytics which help him keep track of the results of Augmenta’s real time operation but also assist him on making data-driven, customized decisions for the future, in a farm level scale and not in a generic geographical (county or even state/country) level scale which is the norm today. Augmenta has completed successfully 2 years of pilots, in 24 fields having staggering results and is currently conducting data-based pilots with food companies like Barilla and partnered with NVIDIA for the development of its cutting edge deep learning device. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 08, 2019 |  |
| Alcatraz AI | Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $4M | Seed | Jun 12, 2018 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Marathon Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marathon-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RavenTek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raventek) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [201 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/201-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Air Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/air-street-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ASVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Catapult Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catapult-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About HCVC

VC Fund · Paris, France

HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.

5 contacts available at HCVC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandre Flamant | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-flamant |
| Alexis Houssou | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-houssou |
| Aymerik Renard | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aymerik-renard |
| Cyril Abiteboul | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyril-abiteboul |
| Jerry Yang | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerry-j-m-yang |

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## FAQ

### What does Aymerik Renard invest in?

Aymerik Renard invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Greece. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aymerik Renard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aymerik Renard closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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