EV·VC
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Entropy Ventures (EV) is Hartford Lab’s venture capital arm.
EV was founded and is run by Andrew Hartford. Fund I (vintage 2018) is an angel fund that operates: (1) to fuel our own ventures AND (2) as both original capital & architectural adviser (YC- inspired) to founders working on companies which (i) fall within the Revitalizing America program architecture AND (ii) satisfy our value framework. |
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In terms of our criteria (“value framework”) for considering investees: we require a ‘6 out of 6’ score (self-determined-but-binary) across the following 3 dimensions: importance socially, economically and technologically speaking, over the short term and the long term.
Our overall (pirate ship) thesis is that “$ can be extracted where value is made”, and also that you should only fund a project with (1) unique founders that have a detailed vision of the future generally, as well as (2) a clear orientation as to what important/ value-creating functions the company’s products/ services will provide as part of that vibrant future.
Our overall (pirate ship) thesis is that “$ can be extracted where value is made”, and also that you should only fund a project with (1) unique founders that have a detailed vision of the future generally, as well as (2) a clear orientation as to what important/ value-creating functions the company’s products/ services will provide as part of that vibrant future.
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As a matter of course: with the size of Fund I and our investment thesis, we are currently interested in (1) everything quantum (present, near, long term applications); (2) everything algorithmic/ machine intelligence (incl. quantum algorithms!); (3) things that have hyper-growth potential that can also produce cash flow; and, (4) things that have mutual symbiosis with Alkemy ('0' in the "integrated ecosystem" model).
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We are about to embark on the process of raising Fund II (Q1 2019). The aim is several million dollars with an intimate group of LPs as a scaled version of the above.
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At its core, EV has a R&D division. For the past 3 years, our diversely talented team has been exploring many of the foundations and modern frontiers of science, technology, and other knowledge.
The dream is to gradually develop the "21st Century Bell Labs"-- something of a LT corporate nucleus (1) producing academic contributions, (2) developing intellectual property, and (3) incubating products, services, and corporate divisions of the EV portfolio. |
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We look forward to empowering brave and brilliant founders-- and to the journey of forging a collective family playing its part in enabling that better tomorrow .