HCVC

Navier is focused on creating innovative watercraft, particularly the N30, which is designed to revolutionize boating with advanced technology and sustainable practices.

Cosmic Robotics builds AI-powered equipment designed to operate in any environment, adapting to dynamic site conditions to keep construction crews and projects on track.

Karman+ is a company that raised $20 million to develop an asteroid-mining spacecraft. It aims to mine asteroids to supply the space economy and move polluting industries into space.

Karavela is building a foundation model of the brain using next-gen magnetic resonance imaging to collect the largest dataset of human brain dynamics, enhancing clinical trials with AI and advancing brain decoding.

Orakl Oncology's mission is to disrupt cancer drug development with a first-in-class AI-native predictive platform. By combining patient-derived biology, advanced AI, and real-world data, Orakl uncovers new drug targets, predicts patient responses, and accelerates the path from discovery to clinical success.

Alpine Eagle specializes in the Sentinel Airborne Counter-UAS System, designed to detect, classify, and intercept unmanned aerial systems, including drones and loitering munitions, using advanced AI and edge computing technologies.

Renaissance Fusion is a startup focused on building stellarators, the most efficient and stable fusion reactors, utilizing High Temperature Superconducting magnets and liquid metal shields to bring fusion energy to the grid.

ANELLO Photonics builds next-generation inertial sensors that combine silicon photonics with advanced sensor fusion to deliver fiber-optic–class precision in a smaller, lighter, and more cost-efficient form factor, powering autonomy across land, air, and sea.

Automata Technologies is a leading automation company powering life sciences labs with its LINQ platform, which automates lab workflows and is designed to be easily adoptable by various research institutions and pharmaceutical companies.

Bellwether Coffee offers electric, ventless, and automatic coffee roasting solutions for businesses, enabling them to roast their own coffee sustainably and profitably.

QUiCKR Bio provides a rapid and cost-effective solution for quantifying genetic modifications in cell and gene therapies, utilizing a cloud-based platform and high-throughput assays.

Early-stage, first-money-in partner for technically ambitious founders transforming the physical world (energy, defense, infrastructure, space, advanced manufacturing), underwriting high technical and regulatory risk.

Pre-seed hard-tech program that co-builds physical prototypes with in-house engineers/designers, offers a 35,000 sq ft Newark lab plus Shenzhen/Pune manufacturing teams, and mixes cash with in-kind engineering services.

Refactor Capital is a solo GP venture fund where founders get direct access to Zal Bilimoria as the only decision-maker, applying software operator experience from Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn to hard tech sectors like aerospace, synthetic biology, and energy storage. The fund leads seed rounds with $1-2M checks targeting ~10% ownership across unusually broad hard-tech domains, backed by early hits like Solugen and Astranis.