# NP-Hard Ventures

> NP-Hard Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

NP-Hard Ventures is a VC fund focused on Software and Information Technology. investment firm

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$25M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$5.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 61% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 17% |
| SaaS | 2 | 11% |
| Developer APIs | 2 | 11% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 50% |
| Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 5 | 28% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 22% |
| Germany | 3 | 17% |
| United States | 3 | 17% |
| India | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paul Veugen | Co-founder and Investor | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-veugen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reson8 | Reson8 provides highly customizable, real-time speech recognition designed for European languages. | $5.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Roseman Labs | Roseman Labs facilitates decentralized data analytics on encrypted data. Redefine data collaboration and work together without having to reveal your sensitive data. The technology builds on the foundations of a cryptographic technique called Multi-Party Computation. | $5.8M | Series A | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Isembard | Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business. | $9M | Seed | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Epum | Epum is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the commercial real estate development industry. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| Briefly Bio | Briefly Bio is a biotech platform that provides a solution to make lab work reproducible. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| trail | Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2024 |  |
| Parseable | Free and Open Source Log Storage and Observability Platform | $2.8M | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Monumental | Monumental develops autonomous robotics and software systems for the construction industry, with a focus on automating on-site masonry and building workflows. Its technology combines a fleet of autonomous robots with Atrium, an integrated software platform that plans, coordinates, monitors, and manages robotic construction activities. The companydesigns and operates its robotics hardware, machine vision systems, and software to enable robots to work alongside construction teams on active job sites. Its solutions support tasks such as bricklaying, site mapping, project planning, progress tracking, and quality monitoring through a unified digital workflow. Monumental deploys its technology on residential, commercial, and infrastructure construction projects to improve the consistency and efficiency of repetitive building processes while integrating with existing construction practices. | $25M | Seed | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Codédex | Codédex is a brand new way to learn to code for Gen Z. Journey through the fantasy land of Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, earn XP to unlock new regions, and collect all the badges at your own pace. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Deta | Deta provides developer API and cloud storage services. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 10, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does NP-Hard Ventures invest in?

NP-Hard Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NP-Hard Ventures's check size?

NP-Hard Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$25M at Seed and $750k–$5.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NP-Hard Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact NP-Hard Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at NP-Hard Ventures?

The team at NP-Hard Ventures includes Paul Veugen (Co-founder and Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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