Built for
instability.
Italy's first venture fund dedicated to dual-use technology.
We see the dual-use layer that other investors cannot.
We invest alongside other VCs, research institutions, and corporate spinouts, at different stages, and we build the dual-use layer that other investors cannot see.
Our participation does not change the trajectory of a company: we read technology differently, adding a dimension that multiplies its value.
The security environment has changed permanently: current conflicts ended three decades of post-Cold War assumptions.
Europe's military and dual-use technology depends on others. European nations are customers, not sovereigns.
Italy produces world-class research with dual-use potential. No specialist fund systematically converts it into companies.
The defence model has changed. A founder now identifies a capability gap, builds a working prototype with private capital in months, proves it in the field, and sells it, iterating faster than any prime contractor ever could.
The opportunity is not absent. It is being missed.
The security environment has changed permanently: current conflicts ended three decades of post-Cold War assumptions.
Europe's military and dual-use technology depends on others. European nations are customers, not sovereigns.
Italy produces world-class research with dual-use potential. No specialist fund systematically converts it into companies.
The defence model has changed. A founder now identifies a capability gap, builds a working prototype with private capital in months, proves it in the field, and sells it, iterating faster than any prime contractor ever could.
The opportunity is not absent. It is being missed.
Team & advisory board.
Hardpoint will operate with a core team and an advisory board composed of senior figures from defence, intelligence, institutional finance, and frontier research — practitioners at the highest level of their respective fields.
Full profiles disclosed under NDA in the Information Memorandum.
- 01Special forces & critical infrastructure
- 02Investment banking & institutional capital
- 03Geopolitical intelligence, dual-use regulation & technology law
- 04Frontier research & emerging security technologies
Intelligence from conflicts, markets, and frontier research.
We analyse active conflicts, procurement signals, regulatory shifts, research outputs, corporate demand, and emerging infrastructure requirements to understand which technologies performed, failed, or were improvised in real conditions. We decompose these signals into fundable technology components and go directly to the teams working on the relevant pieces, before the requirement is obvious.
Nine priority technology areas.
The technology that learns, decides, and acts will define how the next decade unfolds.
A new foundation for secure communication, sensing, and computation, built on principles that classical systems cannot replicate.
Systems that act independently will extend what humans can protect, reach, and build — making operations safer and more effective.
Technologies that enhance human performance, protect populations, and anticipate biological threats before they become crises.
What we build with determines what becomes possible — lighter, more resilient, more sustainable structures for a changing world.
Reliable, sovereign energy is the foundation on which everything else depends.
A more connected world requires infrastructure that is faster, more secure, and built to last.
Persistent access to orbit is becoming the infrastructure layer of the global economy — for connectivity, observation, and resilience.
The frontier of speed and precision opens possibilities in mobility, logistics, and exploration that did not exist before.
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info@hardpoint.vc