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Founders who already live in the future. They don't react to where the world is going. They decide where it goes. The founders I back see the deep tech breakthroughs of the next decade not as possibilities but as certainties. And they're already building towards them.
The companies that excite me most are rooted in genuine scientific progress, doing something fundamentally new rather than incrementally better. That's the kind of breakthrough that doesn't just win a market. It creates one.
Problems are big enough to define a generation. If the ambition feels uncomfortable, I'm interested. The opportunities that matter most are the ones most investors aren't ready to touch yet.
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Jan Miczaika leads early-stage deep tech investing at HV Capital, backing founders whose scientific or technological breakthroughs will define entirely new markets. Jan founded his first company at 15 with a crew of classmates in Rome, selling IT support and custom software. That was just the beginning.
A video platform, some football betting arbitrage, and a series of club nights later, he co-founded Hitmeister, the e-commerce marketplace that grew to over €600m in GMV before being scaled into Kaufland.de, today one of Germany's top ten online retailers.
From there, Jan became COO at Wooga, growing a 30-person team to 300, running a €20m+ annual marketing budget, and partnerships with Apple, Facebook, and Google.
As an angel investor, Jan has backed over 20 companies. When Jan joined HV, he wasn't entering venture capital. He was formalizing something he had already been doing for years. Founders who work with him get a partner who has sat in their seat.
I've spent years building and scaling software companies, products that can reach millions of users overnight. Deep tech doesn't work like that. Timelines are longer, uncertainty is real, and the upside is generational, which is exactly what draws me in. Europe has always had the science to produce breakthroughs. What's changed is the ambition of the people building with it, and the companies I'm backing today won't compete in existing markets. They'll define entirely new ones.
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