Paris, December 21st, 2022 — We are excited to announce that Alex Flamant has joined HCVC as a Venture Partner. We’ve known Alex since 2016 when he had just kicked off the London.AI meetup and was leaving IBM to work in venture at Notion Capital. Having built his career with…

Paris, May 5, 2021 — HCVC announces that Cyril Abiteboul is joining its team as a Venture Partner on its next fund dedicated to Hardtech. With over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry, Cyril will bring his expertise with high-performance technologies developed for sports and racing cars to…

Is it over or just getting started? — Jerry Yang is a General Partner at Hardware Club I spent 12 years in the microchip business, specifically from 2000 to 2012. My friends and I built our own chip startup in 2004 and sold the company in 2008, before the Lehman shock. By the time of the exit of…

Hardware Club General Partner Jerry Yang unravels four problems ICOs pose for hardware founders and investors. — I will try to avoid the word “bubble” in this article because that’s not really been the problem for most (if not all) ICOs in the past year. One would have thought that, by being a hardware investor, I wouldn’t be bombarded by this topic as much. And they could…

ATOMS 2017 is over! During this one-day conference in Paris, we tackled various hardware-related questions with expert panels featuring veteran investors and top hardware founders. Here’s a quick recap of some highlights, insights and stories of the day. Software comes and goes but hardware is forever. Hardware Club’s community represents a cumulative $700+M in VC funding and over $80M in crowdfunding alongside a wide array of iconic hardware and consumer brands across the IoT, drone, robotics and sensor industries. …

Aymerik Renard is Hardware Club’s new General Partner. I’ve been interacting with the Hardware Club team over several years — first as a member of the hardware ecosystem and later, as their advisor — and I’ve been really impressed with the speed and scope of their accomplishments. Hardware is fundamentally…

Jerry Yang is a General Partner at Hardware Club This article originally appeared on ymyang.com. Some founders asked me why I write about new IPOs all the time despite the fact that we’re doing early-stage investments. The truth is that any founder should care, even if his/her own IPO or…

There was a need for a dedicated hardware event, a space devoted solely to bringing together the best of the world’s hardware ecosystem. ATOMS is the first Hardware Club festival, gathering in one place our elite community of over 600+ founders and 260+ hardware startups for the first time. …

These five pieces of advice are some of the take-aways of the live video AMA I conducted with Ken Stephens, VP of Operations at Prynt, for the Hardware Club’s community. 1. GET YOUR PRICING RIGHT Crowdfunding is a good way to launch a company, but don’t forget that at some point you’ll actually have to…