Paulina Szyzdek

Paulina Szyzdek

HardTech VC
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About me

I'm a passionate VC and angel investor focused on deep tech, frontier tech, and industrial markets. I invest in the "Future of Life" — the automation of the industries that keep the world running. I back founders on bold quests to transform how we live and work, and to advance humanity.

RoboticsHumanoidsIndustrialsManufacturingSupply ChainAISpace

Invested in Hugging Face ($4.5B), Figure ($39B), Axiom Space ($2B), Cerebras Systems (IPO 2026, NASDAQ: CBRS), Space Forge, Inversion Space, General Fusion, You.com, Formic, Rescale, Armada, Machina Labs, Besxar, Archetype AI, Reframe Systems, Lambda, Prometheus, Aalo Atomics, Efficient Computer, among others.

Advisory Council Member at Harvard Business Review · AI 2030 Advisory Board (Venture Committee) · Mentor at the National Venture Capital Association. Founder of HardTech Reads, the AI & Robotics Revolution newsletter, and writer for Medium's Data-Driven Investor.

Before VC: banking and consulting at State Street Bank, Euroclear Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Chatham Financial — managing global fund operations across Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, Poland, and the USA.

Excited to help ambitious founders build lasting companies.

What I can help with

Raising from top VCs
AI, Robotics, Humanoids
Pitching deep tech
Startup valuation
Investor relations
Cap table strategy
Scaling frontier tech
Breaking into VC
US & Europe coverage

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