# HFO

> HFO is a VC fund backing Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hf0residency
- Website: https://www.hf0.com

HFO is a venture capital firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 15% |
| SMS | 2 | 10% |
| Solar | 2 | 10% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 65% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 15% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fish Audio | Fish Audio is an AI platform for expressive text‑to‑speech and voice cloning with pro‑grade voices and multilingual support. | $52M | Seed | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Kontigo | We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app. | $20M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Crossmint | Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade developer platform to build onchain. Crossmint's suite of products includes wallets, tokenization, payments, and more; and powers 40,000+ companies and developers, including Fortune 500 companies and major brands like Mastercard, Adidas, Red Bull, Coinbase, Phantom, and more. | $23.6M | Series A | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Flashnet | Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| Favorited | Favorited is an interactive live-streaming platform empowering creators to engage audiences and earn. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Aquaria | Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods. | $12M |  | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Glow Labs | Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Sapien | Sapien, established in 2023, is a data labeling company dedicated to enhancing AI model training through scalable, high-quality data labeling services. By combining advanced technology, blockchain rewards, human feedback, and domain expertise, Sapien enables AI model development across multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, andeducation technology, among many others. The company's approach to data labeling through gamification and positive reinforcement ensures superior data quality output and high retention rates from labelers, and cost-effectiveness for customers. Sapien's commitment to quality, scalability, and customer focus, along with its mission to foster ethical and impactful AI advancements, sets it apart as a leading trusted partner for businesses developing high-performance AI models. | $10.5M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Coframe | Coframe empowers your website or app to continuously enhance itself based on real-world performance. Coframe is solving fundamental problems in AI and product, training multimodal models that understand users and business goals to enable user interfaces to continuously and autonomously improve themselves. | $9.3M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Boardy | Boardy is an AI-powered professional networking startup with a voice assistant | $3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Stratus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gravity-capital-ed7a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transpose-platform-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does HFO invest in?

HFO invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did HFO last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for HFO closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 20 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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