NP-Hard Ventures
Venture capital firm; participated in Isembard's $9M seed round (April 2025).
NP-Hard Ventures is an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by repeat technical entrepreneurs — Managing Partner Anke Huiskes alongside Micha Hernandez van Leuffen and Paul Veugen — backing product-obsessed, deeply technical founders building core infrastructure: developer tools, industrial automation, robotics and autonomous systems, applied deep tech/AI, and defense technology, across Europe and the US, typically as a non-lead, collaborative investor.
Overview
- Firm
- NP-Hard Ventures
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Founded
- 2021
- AUM
- Fund I €12M (closed, ~30 portfolio cos.); Fund II €25M target (~60% closed as of Oct 2025)
- Stages
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Thesis
- Backing product-obsessed, deeply technical founders building core infrastructure — developer tools, industrial automation, robotics/autonomous systems, applied deep tech/AI, and defense technology.
- www.linkedin.com/company/nphard
- X / Twitter
- x.com/nphardvc
- Website
- nphard.vc
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Frequently asked
- What is NP-Hard Ventures?
- Backing product-obsessed, deeply technical founders building core infrastructure — developer tools, industrial automation, robotics/autonomous systems, applied deep tech/AI, and defense technology.
- How much does NP-Hard Ventures manage?
- NP-Hard Ventures manages Fund I €12M (closed, ~30 portfolio cos.); Fund II €25M target (~60% closed as of Oct 2025) in assets, and was founded in 2021.
- What stages does NP-Hard Ventures invest at?
- NP-Hard Ventures invests at Pre-Seed, Seed.
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NP-Hard Ventures launched a €25M Fund II; team Anke Huiskes, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Paul Veugen
Silicon Canals: Amsterdam's NP-Hard Ventures launches €25M Fund IIVerified2025-10-10 - 2
NP-Hard Ventures participated in Isembard's $9M seed round
Nordic9: Isembard raised $9m in a seed round led by Notion Capital, joined by 201 Ventures, Basis Capital, Forward Fund, Material Ventures, Neverlift and NP-HardVerified2025-04-24