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HOF Capital

New York, New York · Invests in North America; Europe; Asia; Africa; LATAM; MENA; US · Website

Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries BGamingB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsCybersecurityFintechEnterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools & InfrastructureSecurity & CybersecurityFintech & PaymentsHealthcare & Digital HealthBiotech & Life SciencesRobotics & AutomationAerospace & DefenseSemiconductors & Hardware

Thesis

HOF Capital invests in relentlessly ambitious founders building world-changing technologies that accelerate abundance: sustained technological progress that expands access to opportunity, health, and economic prosperity. Its current public thesis emphasizes AI and agentic systems as amplifiers of discovery, engineering, and knowledge creation, alongside frontier infrastructure and applications that can shorten scientific and technological invention timelines.

Likely not a fit for

We avoid safe ventures using proven technology with formulaic business models. We do not back founders without exceptional outlier traits.

How they invest

Lead or follow
Leads or follows
Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Preferred
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$1B
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

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Hisham Elhaddad

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Portfolio

AnthropicEnterprise Software

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. As a public benefit corporation, they focus on the opportunities and risks associated with AI, aiming to ensure its benefits while mitigating potential harms.

OpenAIEnterprise Software

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

x.aiEnterprise Software

x.ai is a company focused on advanced AI, known for its Grok product and recently raised $20B in Series E funding. It offers an API and has a careers section.

CrusoeEnterprise Software

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, building large-scale, renewable-powered data centers and cloud platforms optimized for high-performance workloads.

VardaBiotech Life Sciences

Varda Space Industries is industrializing low Earth orbit by processing materials in microgravity and returning them to Earth, focusing on biopharma and other industries.

Colossal BiosciencesBiotech Life Sciences

Colossal Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on de-extinction and genetic engineering, aiming to revive extinct species using CRISPR technology and involved in conservation efforts.

BillionToOneHealthcare Digital

BillionToOne is a molecular diagnostics company focused on creating accessible prenatal screening and liquid biopsy tests.

FlutterwaveFintech Payments

Flutterwave offers seamless payment solutions tailored for enterprises, startups, and emerging markets, enabling businesses to accept and process payments globally.

DatabricksDeveloper Tools Infra

Databricks is a leading Data and AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and scale data and AI applications, analytics, and agents. With a unified Data Intelligence Platform, it serves over 20,000 organizations globally, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500.

KrakenFintech Payments

Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform offering services for individual and institutional traders. It provides support, trading tools, and institutional crypto trading solutions.

SoFiFintech Payments

SoFi is a leader in marketplace lending and investing, offering a range of financial products including loans, investing options, banking services, and insurance.

UiPathEnterprise Software

UiPath is an automation platform that drives AI transformation through agentic automation, enabling businesses to optimize their workflows and processes.

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Research briefRead more
HOF Capital Research Investment Thesis: "March to Abundance" HOF Capital, founded in 2016, operates under a distinctive long-term thesis called "March to Abundance." The firm invests in relentlessly ambitious founders who are working on fundamental technology and business model innovations that will advance humanity toward greater abundance. Rather than backing "safe" ventures using proven technol

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