HAX accelerator (formerly HAXLR8R) is an early stage investor and

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focused on

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startups. HAX has offices in

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History

Founded in 2011 by Cyril Ebersweiler and Sean O'Sullivan, the roots of the HAX Accelerator were another accelerator program, CHINA-AXLR8R started in Dalian, China in 2009. The first HAX Accelerator program ran in Shenzhen from March to June 2012. HAX, focused on hardware development, includes both a cash investment and product development support in exchange for equity. Startups that are accepted into the program spend 180 days with the HAX team at their locations in Shenzhen and San Francisco. The startups get access to the supply chain and factory ecosystem available in Shenzhen. At the end of the program the startup presents the final product to investors and raise further capital both HAX and investor network. As of June 2020, over 250 startups participated in the programs. Among them are: * Makeblock, a Shenzhen-based STEM robotics company * Robotics companies such as Simbe Robotics (inventory robot), Dispatch (delivery robot) and Rovenso (all-terrain rover) * 11 startups who raised over one million dollars on Kickstarter including CHIP, Kokoon, Prynt * M5Stack, a Shenzhen-based company making stackable product development toolkits based on

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, targeting applications such as STEM Learning and IoT. In 2017, the founder of M5Stack, Jimmy Lai, received a seed round investment from HAX and officially founded M5Stack.

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External links

Official website
Business incubators of China Startup accelerators