Investing in
Next Generation
UK Hardware Scale-Ups
We back exceptional teams building hardware-reliant innovations with capital, expertise and manufacturing partnership opportunities.
WHY HARDWARE?
Most investors lean away from hardware. We lean in.
Hardware-led innovations will transform trillion-dollar industries over the coming years. Physical AI will redefine how we as humans live and work. Generalist venture capital has underserved hardware entrepreneurs in recent years. As hardware specialists, we take a contrarian view.
OUR FOCUS
Exclusively backing innovative hardware that is ready for scale today.
OUR COVERAGE
8
Core Sub Sectors
Forge Capital invests at the frontier of the physical economy. We back companies built on deep intellectual property, world-class engineering, and proven technology ready to operate at scale today.
We focus on innovations where physical deployment creates durable moats — businesses whose products and services have global applications and will transform how people around the world live, work, and interact with each other.
OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH UK GOVERNMENT
£860m
in R&D Assets
3,500
R&D Engineers
Forge Capital portfolio companies benefit from our strategic partnership with the UK Government's High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) network of R&D centres throughout the UK, helping them accelerate to the next level faster.
This collaboration between HVMC and Forge Capital leverages HVMC’s technical assets, with Forge’s investment expertise to unlock scale for next generation UK technologies with global applications.
OUR EXPERIENCE
We're a team of entrepreneurs, investors and operators with deep hardware knowledge.
50+
Companies Backed
80+
Years of Experience
