Ruya Ventures

Profile

Ruya Ventures is a deep tech venture capital firm based in London, founded by Rick Hao in October 2025. Hao, formerly the deeptech lead at Speedinvest, is the solo General Partner managing the firm. He brings over a decade of deeptech investment experience and aims to bridge science with commercial readiness. Ruya Ventures is distinct for its solo-GP structure and intense focus on concentrated, pre-seed investments in high-impact areas such as AI, batteries, robotics, and more, challenging the conventional partnership model especially within deeptech investing.

Ruya Ventures specifically targets pre-seed, 'day zero' investments, often participating before the companies are incorporated. The firm targets deeptech sectors including AI, batteries, robotics, semiconductors, materials science, and novel computing. It operates globally with connections across Europe, the US, and Asia, focusing on sectors where it has particular expertise and conviction. The debut fund, Ruya Ventures Fund I, closed at $50 million and aims to invest in approximately 20 companies.

Notable companies in Ruya Ventures' portfolio include WLF Energy - a grid-infrastructure company, and MegaCool Technologies - an AI-compute cooling startup. Additionally, there are undisclosed investments in a real-time speech-translation AI company, industrial-intelligence in robotics, and PCB manufacturing for regulated industries, reflecting its strategy of tackling commercialization gaps in deep tech.