Hardware Club

Hardware Club is a community-based venture firm dedicated to full-stack companies. We run a fund that invests in early-stage full-stack companies building hard technologies and gather the best hardware companies worldwide in an exclusive community.

Editors
Alexis Houssou

Co-founder & President at Hardware Club, a Community-based Hardware VC

Jerry Yang

General Partner of HCVC / did NOT co-found Yahoo! in 1994

HCVC

We help hardtech founders build and grow amazing companies.

Mike Mills

No, not that Mike Mills, though I get his email. Nerd. Expat. Lawyer. VC. Mayo-Hater. General Counsel at HCVC.

Kassandra McCleery

HCVC Community & Platform Lead

Latest Posts

Black magic — Things that work

Most friends know that my first career was semiconductor. Few were familiar enough with the industry to know that specifically I was in…

Bitcoin, gold & public market

I’m a big Karl Popper fan.

The Optimistic Case for the Metaverse

When Mark Zuckerberg talks about the Metaverse, I cringe. His vision of the future feels a bit like a targeted ad strapped to a human face…

Spice DAO (Taylor’s Version)

What Taylor Swift can tell us about NFTs

VC and Hedge Fund as fraternal twins

New just came out that Sequoia and Paradigm bought $1.15B worth of stakes from Citadel Securities, founded by hedge fund giant Ken Griffin.

What does labor shortage in semiconductor means to the world?

In my blogpost back in June 2021 « Capital is not the problem in building semiconductor fabs », I pointed out that access to highly…

How TSMC is able to spend $28B in capex while making only $18B?

Another point in the fantastic podcast about Morris & TSMC by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal at Acquired that could be a bit better…

TSMC at $0 Pre-Money?

[Edit 2021/9/22: I have left Taiwan for too long that I forgot that there’s another weird thing called “stock dividends” as opposed to…

TOAST’s S-1

It’s been a while since I wrote about the S-1 forms of any startups. Not that I didn’t continue to read them during my breakfasts. It ‘s…

Biased or skin in the game?

In financial journalism, there’s this tradition for the journalists to disclose whether he/she is personally long or short the stocks…

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