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 102 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #7,129 (top 5%) among 498,348 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 381 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 54 accounts a total of 82 times.
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The accounts that follow HF include 615 founders, 188 angel investors, 78 influencers and 11 VCs, among them Vance Spencer, John Wang, Mario Nawfal, Tom Schmidt, Tommy and Binji.