HAX Is The World's Most Active Investor In Hardware Startups - 200 investments - In Shenzhen & San Francisco - Consumer, Health, Industry, Enterprise (B2B & B2C) - 50% US & CAN / 20% EU / 15% CN / !5% ROW - Over 80 Kickstarters, 90% > $100k, 11 > $1m (Global Top 100) - Follow-ons by Sequoia, Andressen-Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, GGV, etc.

1. WHAT’S NEXT
WelcometoHAX!

2. $300M Under Management
#2 Global Seed Investor
#1 most active in hardware
#1 most active in life sciences
HARDWARE BIOTECH SOCIAL/MOBILE

3. MASSIVE IMPACT ON
THE PHYSICAL WORLD
AND
THE HUMAN BODY
WHYITMATTERS

4. First R&D (Japan)
(not for sale)
1986
Segway (USA)
$5,000
2001
Ninebot (China)
$330
2016
BEFORE:30YEARS

5. CLOUD
COMPUTING
LOW-COST
SENSORS
& CPUs SMART
PHONES
CHEAPER
PROTOTYPING
TOOLS
TODAY
CROWD
FUNDING
LOW VOLUME
MANUFAC-
TURING
ONLINE
STORES

6. LABTOMARKETIN2YEARS?

7. SEED GROWTH
O TO 1 1 TO N
SHENZHEN
PrototypetoLaunch
SANFRANCISCO
ProducttoScale

8. CHINA
201GlobalInvestments
EUROPE
USA &
CANADA
REST OF
WORLD

9. CONSUMER
HEALTH
INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE

11. RISINGSTARS CO-INVESTORS

12. >80 CAMPAIGNS
11 IN WORLD’S TOP 100
#1 INVESTOR IN CROWDFUNDED HARDWARE

13. THEHAXWAY

14. OURASSETS
1.CHINA
2.CONTENT
3.CURATION
4.COMMUNITY
5.CONNECTIONS

15. 1.CHINA

16. R&D
Prototyping
+ Production
Sales
1
2
3
World-ClassSTARTUPS
needWorld-ClassRESOURCES
YOU

17. SHENZHENSUPERPOWERS
SKILLS
(ANY) SCALE
SPEED
SAVINGS

18. THE SILICON
HAS MOVED OUT
OF SILICON VALLEY

19. A WEEK IN SHENZHEN
IS LIKE A MONTH
ANYWHERE ELSE

20. CAN YOU AFFORD
THE COST OF
NOT BEING IN CHINA?
SHENZHEN WAS A PRIVILEGE

21. HAX BUILT AN “API”
TO CHINA’S SUPPLY CHAIN

22. “We gained a year in product
development by coming to China”
Nils Mattisson
Founder, MINUT

23. 2.CONTENT

24. “FULL-STACK” PROGRAM
TECHNICAL REVIEWPOSITIONING
PHASE 1: BUILDING THE RIGHT THING
FILMMESSAGING PR
STRATEGY BRANDING SHENZHEN RESOURCES
PHASE 2: BUILDING THINGS RIGHT
TECH SPECS SOURCING ITERATIVE PROTOTYPING PRINCIPLES OF MANUFACTURING
PHASE 3: LAUNCH
ONLINE MARKETING CROWDFUNDING FUNDRAISING
CHANNELSSALES
PHASE 4: SCALING
DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING LOGISTICSMARKETING MIX
2.CONTENT

25. 3.CURATION

26. COMPLETE
TEAM
LARGE
MARKET
10X
ADVANTAGE
PROOFOF
CONCEPT
STRICT SELECTION
TOP 5% OF >2,000 / YEAR
3.CURATION

27. SCIENCE
10X ADVANTAGE
SOFTWARE USER
EXPERIENCE
3.CURATION

28. 4.COMMUNITY
600 ALUMNI
FOUNDERS100
FULL TIME
EXPERTS25
HAX OFFICE
WORLDWIDE

29. 5.CONNECTIONS

30. SUPPLIERS

31. CORPORATES

32. RETAILERS

33. IT’SSTEAMENGINETIME

34. THEIPOSOF2025AREBORNTODAY

35. HAX | HARDWARE TRENDS 2016 | PAGE 35
FORBES | Hardware, IoT and Asia
TECHCRUNCH | HAX Lean Hardware Series
15 articles | CLICK HERE
WIRED | Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware
Documentary | CLICK HERE
SLIDESHARE | Free Online Reports | CLICK HERE
Hardware Trends, State of Hardware
State of Robotics, Generation Health

36. 1MVIEWS!
Lean Hardware
15 articles | CLICK HERE
Hardware Columns
10 articles | CLICK HERE
Shenzhen, The Silicon Valley of Hardware
60min Documentary | CLICK HERE
MOREABOUTUS
Also featured on:
Free reports | CLICK HERE
Hardware Trends, Health Tech, Robotics

37. WHAT’S NEXT
CONTACT | MAKEIT @ HAX.CO
APPLY | WWW.HAX.CO