Investors in Hardware

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital Global Equities extends Sequoia Capital’s technology investing efforts into the public markets. SCGE currently manages over $7 billion and invests in companies across the global technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors, primarily focusing on software, internet, financial technology, and technology-enabled consumer businesses. The firm’s portfolio consists of concentrated, long-term investments in leading companies across the world. While the majority of the portfolio is comprised of public companies, SCGE also partners with entrepreneurs through late-stage private crossover investments, often investing alongside Sequoia Growth funds. The firm’s private portfolio includes emerging leaders in the United States, China, India, Brazil, Korea, and Israel. As these private companies become public, SCGE grows the partnership with additional investments at the IPO and beyond.
Made 14 investments in Hardware

Brinc

Brinc Accelerator of Accelerators focuses is developing and operating training programs around China for existing and new incubator, accelerator, and investment companies. Brinc’s AOA business model is to provide fee-based training to incubators, accelerators, and investment companies then tie up longer-term relationships through accelerator associations and obtain equity alignment with their startups and programs. Ultimately, Brinc’s goal is to help improve the quality of startups in China and to generate more opportunities for follow-on investment through future funds that are brought online and through syndication through China’s venture capital ecosystem, which is one of the fastest growing/largest in the world.
Made 15 investments in Hardware

Intel

Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. With an overall strategy to stimulate advances in computing and communications, the Intel Capital team seeks out, and invests in, promising companies worldwide, working together to establish new and innovative technologies, develop industry standard solutions, drive Internet growth, and advance the computing platform. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than $11.6 billion in approximately 1,437 companies in 57 countries. In that timeframe, 212 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 377 were acquired or participated in a merger.
Made 11 investments in Hardware

Capital-E

Capital-E is an Antwerp-based venture capital firm founded in 2006 that specializes in early-stage investments in companies developing electronics, industrial, consumer goods, and technology solutions across Western Europe. The firm provides early stage capital to companies with unique selling propositions based on enabling electronics or advanced materials, leveraging its relationship with IMEC, the largest independent research center in micro- and nano-electronics in Europe. With a focus on micro and nano electronics, nanotechnology, and advanced materials, Capital-E invests in a variety of sectors including image sensors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, green energy, communication, semicon processing, and metrology. They seek to invest between €0.25 million to €1 million per company, scaling up to €7.5 million per company over multiple rounds, and are actively involved in the management of their portfolio companies.
Made 4 investments in Hardware

HP

Hewlett-Packard provides products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. The company’s personal systems segment offers commercial and consumer PCs, workstations, tablets, retail point-of-sale systems, calculators and other related accessories, software, support, and services for the commercial and consumer markets. Its printing segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media, and scanning devices as well as LaserJet and enterprise, inkjet and printing, and graphics solutions; and software and web services. The company’s software segment offers IT management, application testing and delivery, information management, big data analytics, security intelligence, and risk management solutions for businesses and enterprises; and licensing, support, and professional services as well as SaaS-based services. Its HP financial services segment provides leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset management services as well as investment solutions to SMBs, educational institutions, and governmental entities. The company’s corporate investments segment includes HP labs and cloud-related business incubation projects. Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Made 4 investments in Hardware

Foresight Group

Foresight Group is an alternative asset manager with a strong 30-year track record and specific expertise in environmental and solar infrastructure and private equity. Foresight Group is a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing investment funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for 30 years. With current assets under management of over £2.2 billion, raised from the UK and international private and high-net-worth individuals, family offices, pension funds and other institutional investors, Foresight strives to generate increasing dividends and capital appreciation for its investors over the long term. Foresight has offices in UK, USA, Italy, and Australia.
Made 3 investments in Hardware

Panda Capital

Established in 2015, Panda Capital is a venture capital firm in China that specializes in early-stage investments in innovative technology-driven businesses. With a focus on companies ranging from Angel to Series B stages, Panda Capital aims to be one of the first institutional investors for these startups. Their investment portfolio includes companies in various sectors such as Data Driven AI Applications, Fintech, Logistics, and Mobility & Transportation. Recognized for their success, Panda Capital has received accolades like the "2017 & 2018 China Venture Capital Firms Top 10" and "2017 China’s Best Venture Capital Firms Top 10." Founded by partners Wen, Liang Weihong, Li Xinyi, and Mao Shengbo, Panda Capital continues to make strategic investments in technology-focused companies across China.
Made 2 investments in Hardware

ARM

ARM Holdings, founded in 1990 and based in the United Kingdom, specializes in providing semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and custom system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The company focuses on designing and licensing its IP rather than manufacturing semiconductor chips. ARM licenses its technology to a network of partners, who then use these designs to create and produce their own SoC solutions. In addition to processor IP, ARM offers a variety of tools and systems IP to support the development of optimized SoC designs. Their technology is integral to billions of devices, making ARM a key player in the semiconductor industry.
Made 2 investments in Hardware

Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies. The seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. It seeks to generate financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows the logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. In 2018, Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera established the firm in Palo Alto, California.
Made 2 investments in Hardware

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.
Made 2 investments in Hardware