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Hack VC
Alex Pack and Ed Roman's Hack VC runs $425M across venture and liquid crypto strategies, embedding engineers in seed-stage projects through Hack Labs.
Hack VC
Hack VC is an SEC-registered investment adviser in Palo Alto, CA, registered since 2022. The firm manages approximately $823 million in regulatory assets. It has 15 employees and 8 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Palo Alto
Corporate office
Palo Alto, CA, United States
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Hack VC?
Investment decisions rest with co-founders Alex Pack and Ed Roman. Both have deep backgrounds in crypto venture and protocol-level research — Pack previously co-founded Dragonfly Capital, while Roman built early-stage developer platforms before entering venture. The firm has not publicized a broader investment committee beyond the founding partnership.
Does Hack VC invest in tokens on the open market, or only in private rounds?
Hack VC deploys across both private equity rounds and liquid token markets. In early 2024, alongside raising its second venture fund, the firm launched a dedicated liquid-token vehicle to pursue on-chain strategies, suggesting a permanent allocation to public crypto markets alongside its early-stage private practice.
What is Hack Labs, and how does it differ from typical venture incubation?
Hack Labs is the firm's venture-studio arm, which embeds Hack VC's own protocol engineers and tokenomics designers directly into seed-stage portfolio companies. Rather than a traditional incubator model of light-touch guidance, Hack Labs provides operating-level technical contribution to protocol architecture in exchange for early-stage allocations.
Which investment stages does Hack VC target?
Hack VC concentrates on the earliest stages — seed and Series A — across both equity and token-based rounds. The firm's venture-studio model allows it to engage at the pre-seed and incubation phase with certain teams, but its primary fund-level activity centers on writing first institutional checks alongside founders.
Is Hack VC a single-family office or a traditional venture firm?
Hack VC operates as a traditional venture capital asset manager, not a family office. It raises capital from external limited partners and reports $425 million in commitments across two core funds as of early 2024, with no single-family wealth source behind it.
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