Venture Capital Program for Hardware

program based venture capital for hardware

180-360days program

$ 0 K

investment package

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companies to date

start dates per year

HAX offers venture funding and a hands-on program to help startups enabled by hardware move at lightning speed. We help early stage companies through their development and scaling phases, at our locations in Shenzhen and San Francisco.

We help you source production
grade parts for your prototype
iterations. Ongoing technology
audits will help optimize your
BOM cost. Our experienced team
and community of founders
are on hand to help at every
step of the way.

sourcing
Working with specialist suppliers
in Shenzhen will increase
prototyping speed, develop key
relationships, and set core
components up for
smooth transition through
batch and mass production.

supply chain
In addition to leveraging the local
ecosystem, our team will help you
with electrical and physical
prototyping. From visual form
exploration to mechatronics
and EE prototyping.

prototyping
Our industrial design team
guides the development of
user experience and design
execution with startups. They
help mesh technology, customer
usability and manufacturing to
to build prototypes that both
“work-like & look-like” the
final offering.

industrial
design
Whether it's structural, mechanical
or electrical engineering, our
in-house engineering team will help
take your assembly through
Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
for batch production then advise
on optimization for mass
manufacturing with your
chosen partners.
engineering
Shenzhen is unlike any other
manufacturing ecosystem in
the world. Take advantage of
the economies of scale in a city
where 90% of the world's
electronics are made or assembled.

manufacturing
Our communications team builds
multiple branding assets to help
communicate new technologies
to the world. This includes motion
graphics, film, graphic design
and other elements to communicate
your business to customers.

creative
We help create a set of tools
and tests to refine the value
proposition to your customers ,
understand how to reach them
and maximize your business'
digital presence.

marketing

Stage I - Shenzhen, China

Stage 1 of the program helps you set strong business and technical foundations for scaling a hardware startup. It concentrates on fast paced R&D. Rapid iteration with specialist suppliers and production grade components makes a fluid transition from prototype to production. Our full-stack engineering team are here to help with sourcing, engineering and manufacturing.

Stage 2 focuses on helping teams secure their first revenue, expand their business development efforts and acquire post-accelerator funding. It emphasizes introductions to corporates, investors, partners and press.

we work across 4 themes

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Part of SOSV

most active early stage investor

SOSV is a global venture capital firm providing multi-stage investment to develop and scale our founders’ big ideas for positive change. We invest in 150 companies every year through our world class vertical accelerator programs.

Our intensive programs provide startups with seed capital, a specialized global staff of engineers, designers, and scientists to accelerate product development, mentors with deep market and technical expertise, and an unparalleled infrastructure of fully outfitted laboratory & maker spaces.

We help startups go further, faster.

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