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.
- Total investments:
- 102
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $75M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries HCVC invests in
Stages HCVC invests in
Countries HCVC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.4M–$5.2M
- Series A
- $5.2M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (12%)
- Robotics 9 (9%)
- Hardware 7 (7%)
- Health Care 7 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 41 (40%)
- Series A 18 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (5%)
- Series B 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 25 (25%)
- France 11 (11%)
- United Kingdom 5 (5%)
- Germany 3 (3%)
- Greece 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexandre Flamant
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Alexis Houssou
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
Aymerik Renard
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Cyril Abiteboul
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jerry Yang
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 48 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico. | $25M / Seed / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Next-generation electronics with nanomaterials | $12M / Seed / Feb 05, 2026 | ||
| Navier AI CFD platform allows aerospace and mechanical engineers to design high-performance machines with ease. | $5.6M / Seed / Dec 15, 2025 | ||
| Karavela is a company developing a "foundation model" of the human brain using large-scale brain imaging data (like MRI) and AI. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Aug 22, 2025 | ||
| Lambda Automata builds autonomous systems tailored for addressing national security challenges in the EU and its allies. | $14M / Series A / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| Spectrohm is the next generation of internal imaging. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| Lendurai provides solutions to enable UAVs to operate without satellite navigation or remote control. | $6.4M / Seed / Jun 05, 2025 | ||
| Kyron.bio uses the power of glycan alterations to enable improved protein therapies. | $6.2M / Seed / May 28, 2025 | ||
| Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 19, 2025 | ||
| Chef Robotics is a robotics and artificial intelligence company serving the food industry. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $20.6M / Series A / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| See all 102 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does HCVC invest in?
HCVC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 102 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does HCVC invest in?
HCVC typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$11M at Seed, $1.4M–$5.2M at Pre-Seed and $5.2M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not HCVC's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds HCVC took part in.
How do I contact HCVC?
Public channels for HCVC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at HCVC?
The team at HCVC includes Alexandre Flamant (Partner), Alexis Houssou (Founder and Managing Partner) and Aymerik Renard (General Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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