Investment Themes

Investors in the future.

HIRO Capital is a founder-led VC firm investing in the Superabundant future of Humanity. We invest from Series A to Scale Up.

We are optimists and futurists. We believe that Europe can and should be a global leader in the next phase of human evolution, enabled by technology. We know that people's creativity, ambition and entrepreneurship will build better human societies.

AI · Infrastructure · Robotics

Frontier models, world simulators, embodied AI, agentic infrastructure.

Defence · Space · Sovereignty

Dual-use platforms, the space economy, autonomy and European defence capacity.

Sports · Augmentation · Longevity

Performance data, AI healthspan, neurotech, the augmented athlete.

Spatial · Simulation · Games

Real-time engines, immersive computing, the next interactive media stack.
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From our team and advisors.

Letters, conversations and field notes from the partners, operators and scientists building HIRO's third vintage.

Advisory Board

Operators, founders, statesmen.

HIRO is augmented by an Advisory Board of people who have built what they advise on — frontier AI labs, governments and the future of technology across our thematic sectors.

01
Prof. Yann LeCun
AI, Computer Vision, Robotics, Computational Neuroscience
02
The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull
APAC and Defence
03
Professor Paul Newman
Autonomy and Robotics
04
Loredana Crisan
Design and HCI
05
Laurent Solly
AI, France and Southern Europe
06
Major Tim Peake
Space & Defence
07
Professor Deeph Chana
Defence and Deep Tech
08
Hannah Gladman
AI & Longevity
09
Dr Jack Scannell
Longevity, Computational Biotech and Augmentation
10
Caroline Daniel
Strategy & Communications
11
Edward van Cutsem
Scale Up Investing