Bandgap Ventures

Bandgap Ventures is an Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm that invests in early and seed-stage companies built around tangible physical products with defensible technology. It focuses on three main areas: advanced materials, where it backs new materials with the potential to change how people interact with the world; hardware and manufacturing, where it invests in new manufacturing processes, equipment and instrumentation that create or transform markets; and energy technologies, where it backs businesses working to make energy production and consumption more efficient. The firm says its focus reflects a belief that physical hardware, rather than only software and digital media, is what makes technology work in practice.