HF is a venture capital firm and startup residency that houses cohorts of repeat-founder engineering teams for intensive 12-week company-building programs. HF's Twitter Score is 74 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #12,884 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
HF was founded by Dave Fontenot, who serves as GP and CEO alongside Emily Liu as GP and COO and Evan Stites Clayton as GP and CTO. Each residency cohort brings together 10 teams of engineers focused exclusively on building companies, making the program deliberately small and concentrated. HF is backed by Variant and Animoca Brands.
HF has participated in the crypto and AI ecosystem through investments such as the Sapien seed funding round, a decentralized human-powered AI data foundry that uses onchain incentives to source and verify data. Beyond its core residency, HF incubated Lightyear, a one-month founder residency aimed at early-stage entrepreneurs. HF has published 376 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 20 accounts a total of 29 times.
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The accounts that follow HF include 488 founders, 120 angel investors, 74 influencers and 11 VCs, among them Mario Nawfal, Vance Spencer, John Wang, Tommy, Tom Schmidt and Binji.