Primary Job Title Founding Partner Primary Organization Hanover
Location Stanford, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
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Joseph Malchow is the founder of Hanover Technology Investment Management. In 2012 he was named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list. He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford University. He is based in Menlo Park, California.
Joe’s work focuses on locating and supporting highly technical founders in the earliest stages of
company growth. He has consistently provided the first investment capital to transformative companies that go on to pioneer novel markets and outpace hidebound incumbents. In advising companies, he focuses on systems-thinking, company processes and governance, and strategic relationships with key people and organizations. In recent years, he has focused on new technologies in the data infrastructure, devtools, AI and simulation, energy, and enterprise automation.
Since 2020, he has served on the board of Enphase (Nasdaq: ENPH), a global energy technology company pioneering autonomous microgrids, along with advanced battery and solar technologies, and a member of the S&P 500. He also serves on the board of silicon battery leader Enovix (Nasdaq: ENVX), which marked the world’s first major advancement in Li-Ion energy density in decades by bringing semiconductor manufacturing techniques and silicon anodes to batteries. Additionally, he was an investor in and served on the board of directors of Archaea (NYSE: LFG), the pioneer in high-precision renewable natural gas processing technologies, from its public listing through to its acquisition by energy giant BP.
In 2026 he co-created the popular Stanford course EE 292P: Atoms, Bits, and the National Interest – an electrical engineering course at Stanford focused on the relationship between advanced manufacturing – in particular metal-oxide semiconductors – and national power.
Earlier in his career, he worked on mixed-signal microcontrollers at semiconductor designer and manufacturer Cypress Semiconductor.
