# Madison Hamman

> Madison Hamman is a seed investor at Candid backing Computer and Hardware. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Candid
- Location: Louisville, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Nov 2020
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonhamman
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/madisonhamman
- Website: http://madisonhamman.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/madison.hamman

Madison Hamman is a seed investor at Candid in Louisville focused on Computer and Hardware. Madison is currently a project manager at BlueSky Network, and the founder of Candid.Previously Madison was at Mavizon.The leader of business and hardware development at Mavizon, Madison has six years of tech and business development experience. While still in college at the University of Louisville, Madison met classmate and founder ofMavizon technologies, Marc Ingram. After becoming deeply involved in the ideas Marc had been cultivating Madison was ready to take the project to the next level. A quick thinker and doer, Madison approached the owner of Samtec, Inc (a 480 million dollar, debt free company where Madison was employed) to seek financial backing.Since securing an investment agreement with Samtec, Inc, Madison has played an integral role in transforming Mavizon from a two-person idea house to a legitimate 17-person company. He has directed the hardware design and development for Mavizon’s flagship product, the Mavia™ connected car solution, led negotiations with Fortune 100 partners, recruited top technical talent, and served as the face of Mavizon Technologies for public relations and media requests. Madison often accepts public speaking engagements for industry events, networking groups, and local universities to share insights on starting a business, give advice to young professionals.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Computer | 1 | 50% |
| Hardware | 1 | 50% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |
| Semiconductor | 1 | 50% |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $35M | Series B | Nov 05, 2020 |  |
| Mosaic Microsystems | Mosaic Microsystems is a container and packaging company that uses glass and other thin substrates as a platform material. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York. | $2M | Seed | Jun 11, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Applied Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/applied-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asuun](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asuun) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Castor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Corning](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corning) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GlobalFoundries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globalfoundries) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Candid

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Candid.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Madison Hamman | Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Madison Hamman invest in?

Madison Hamman invests primarily in Computer, Hardware and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Madison Hamman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Madison Hamman closed in Nov 2020. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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