Hardware investors
Hardware investors are a genuinely smaller pool than software, which makes targeting precision more valuable than outreach volume in this segment.
How to approach this segment
Manufacturing readiness is the axis they assess on. Where you are between prototype and production — and specifically what remains unsolved — determines both the round size and which investors can participate at all.
Because the qualified pool is smaller, a poorly targeted hardware pitch burns a scarcer resource. It is worth spending longer confirming a fund has done hardware recently before contacting them.
What else these investors fund
Focus areas most often listed alongside Hardware by investors in this segment. Useful for judging whether an adjacent framing of your company would widen or narrow your list.
- Software 110
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) 80
- Information Technology 72
- SaaS 64
- Big Data & Analytics 58
- FinTech 58
- Manufacturing 51
- Robotics 51
Where they are based
- San Francisco 33
- Palo Alto 16
- New York 15
- Boston 9
- Menlo Park 8
- Los Angeles 7
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