HOF Capital is a New York-based investment firm with approximately $15 billion in assets under management. The firm invests globally across venture capital and growth equity, partnering with companies from first check through IPO. Its investor base spans Fortune 500 enterprises, financial institutions and industry-leading founders worldwide.
The firm describes its approach as investing in relentlessly ambitious entrepreneurs, and it works thematically rather than by a narrow sector mandate. Its stated themes are AI, frontier technologies, critical infrastructure and iconic brands. The firm is genuinely multi-stage: it writes early venture cheques and also leads large, complex transactions much later in a company's life, describing that full-capital-structure capability as a natural extension of its venture roots.
On sectors and stages, the firm's portfolio is organised across AI/ML, Frontier, Enterprise, Consumer, Biotech and Fintech. A striking example of its multi-stage reach is the Bugatti Rimac / Rimac Group deal: in September 2026, HOF completed a consortium-led acquisition of Porsche's equity interests in Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Group, valued at approximately €1 billion, becoming the largest shareholder in Rimac Group with a 23.5% stake and taking three supervisory board seats across the two companies.
On fund size, the firm publicly states approximately $15 billion in AUM; individual fund sizes are not publicly disclosed. That scale, combined with a corporate and founder LP base, positions it as one of the larger global multi-stage platforms.
Notable portfolio companies named in the firm's own materials include Anthropic and SpaceX, which HOF says it backed early, alongside xAI, UiPath, Motion and Extropic from its portfolio page. The Rimac Group investment adds an iconic-brands dimension well beyond its venture portfolio.
Partners listed on the firm's team page include Hisham Elhaddad, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, with partners Hansae Catlett, Richard Kandel, Josh Klaczek, Onsi Sawiris, Ryan Shmeizer, Victor Wang and Fady Yacoub. Alexandra Miele serves as Head of Platform, signalling a dedicated founder-support function.
On programs, credits and perks, HOF lists no public accelerator, credit programme or founder perks scheme on its site or in its announcements. Founders approaching the firm should expect its value-add to come through the platform function, the corporate LP network and the firm's ability to keep investing through later stages rather than through a formalised perks programme.
Why it matters for founders
HOF Capital is a rare investor that can write your first cheque and still lead a billion-euro consortium years later, which makes it especially relevant for AI, frontier-technology and deep-tech founders building towards very large outcomes. It is worth knowing in advance that the firm's public brand is built around later-stage and complex deals like Bugatti Rimac, so early-stage founders should come prepared to show why they fit the relentless-ambition bar. With $15 billion in assets and partners on both coasts and in Europe, it is one of the most global multi-stage firms a founder can add to a target list.