Capital and a factory. Not one or the other.

What makes this different

I invest my own capital at pre-seed and seed stage — no fund, no committee, no cohort schedule. Investments are typically structured alongside a manufacturing relationship, which means the money and the production capability arrive in the same conversation.

For a hardware startup, that solves the two problems that kill most of them: running out of cash during the tooling phase, and discovering manufacturing reality too late.

What you get with investment

• Capital at pre-seed or seed stage
• Manufacturing access: injection molding, die casting, mold making
• DFM review before any tooling commitment
• Active involvement in product development and supply chain
• An investor who reads your BOM as carefully as your pitch deck

What I look for

• A real product, past the idea stage — a working prototype and a founder who understands what they built
• Manufacturing fit — products where my factories (plastics, die casting, tooling) create genuine advantage
• Founders who treat manufacturing as strategy, not as a checkbox to delegate
• Western-market focus — US, UK, Germany, Australia and adjacent markets

How it starts

The first conversation is free. I'll ask you about your product, your stage, your unit economics and your manufacturing plan. If there's a fit, we discuss terms. If there isn't, I'll tell you why — and what would change my answer.