🇵🇱Hard2beat 

Type: Venture Capital Fund (Pre-Seed & Seed) Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland Founded: 2023 Investment Stages:Pre-Seed • Seed Check Size: up to PLN 3M (initial rounds), up to PLN 5M (follow-on) Assets Under Management: Not disclosed Focus Areas: Deep Tech • Hardware-enabled Software • AI • Medtech • Cybersecurity • Autonomous UAV Systems Website: hard2beat.vc

Hard2beat is a new Polish VC fund backing early-stage startups with strong engineering foundations. The fund invests in teams solving complex problems through advanced software or hardware — from medical technologies to defense-grade autonomous systems. Hard2beat focuses on projects with proof-of-concept, early traction, or pilot results. It does notinvest in B2C, marketplaces, or generic SaaS. Portfolio companies include Neuromedical (medtech), Defguard (cybersecurity), DefendEye (autonomous drones).

Supported by PFR Ventures and co-financed through the FENG program, Hard2beat stands out with its “early but defensible” approach — seeking technologies that are hard to replicate and founders who are truly hard to beat.