Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-15
Form Type: CORRESP
Source: 0001493152-25-002261
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-15
Form: CORRESP
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<div align='center'>January 15, 2025</div>

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

| Attention: | Frank Knapp |

Shannon Menjivar

Ronald (Ron) E. Alper

Mary Beth Breslin

| Re: | Hennessy                                    
 Capital Investment Corp. VII                
 Amendment                                   
 No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 
 Filed                                       
 January 13, 2025                            |
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 No. 333-283087                              |

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On behalf of Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII (the “ Company”), we transmit herewith the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “ Registration Statement”) via the Commission’s EDGAR system. In this letter, we respond to the comments of the staff (the “ Staff”) of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission”) contained in the Staff’s letter dated January 14, 2025 (the “ Letter”). For ease of reference, the numbered paragraphs below correspond to the numbered comments in the Letter, with the Staff’s comments presented in bold font type.

The responses below follow the sequentially numbered comments from the Letter. All page references in the responses set forth below refer to page numbers in the Registration Statement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Registration Statement.

Amendment to Form S-1 filed January 13, 2025

Cover Page

| 1. | Please                                                                                             
 revise the cover page to include the compensation Mr. Geeza will receive. Refer to Item 1602(a)(3) 
 of Regulation S-K.                                                                                 |

| Response: | In                                                                                   
 response to the Staff’s comment, the Company has revised the disclosure on the cover 
 page of the Registration Statement accordingly.                                      |

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 other Sidley Austin partnerships.                                                                                                  |

January 15,