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Portfolio HIRO Capital co-leads $1.03bn round in Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) at a $3.5bn valuation
Portfolio 10 March 2026

The investment will help drive AMI’s vision to develop world models that learn abstract representations of reality, similar to the mental models humans use to reason and guide action in the physical world.

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Fund HIRO Capital welcomes Sir Nick Clegg as General Partner and launches HIRO III European scaleup VC fund with new Advisory Board of global leaders including Yann LeCun
Fund 10 December 2025

LONDON , Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Nick Clegg, Yann LeCun and others join HIRO III, a UK/Europe-focused multi-stage VC, focused on Spatial AI, Robotics, Longevity, Games, Space & Defence.

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Fund Nick Clegg takes on venture capital role alongside Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun
Fund 10 December 2025

HIRO Capital, a founder-led VC firm, today announced that Sir Nick Clegg, former President, Global Affairs at META and former UK deputy Prime Minister, has joined the Fund as a General Partner for the launch of HIRO III.

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Portfolio Incredibuild Unveils State-of-the-Art AI Platform to Accelerate the Entire Software Development Lifecycle
Portfolio 18 September 2025

First-of-its-kind platform empowers customers with real-time build intelligence to feed and speed AI-driven product development

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Portfolio PlayerData releases industry’s smallest indoor/outdoor tracking device
Portfolio 16 September 2025

PlayerData, a lower-cost option for athlete load monitoring, has released the smallest indoor/outdoor tracking unit just a few months after raising a seed round led by Darco Capital and Bolt Ventures, the family office of serial sports owner David Blitzer.

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Portfolio Team Liquid claims back-to-back silver at the EWC
Portfolio 1 September 2025

For the second year in a row, we've secured a second-place finish at the Esports World Cup (EWC). While the result may be the same, our journey couldn't have been more different, especially after a rocky start.

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Portfolio Team Liquid is the Esports Organization of the Decade
Portfolio 27 August 2025

It's been quite the decade for esports. If you showed someone from 2015 what the industry looks like now, they wouldn't recognize almost any of it. But they would still recognize Team Liquid.

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Team Spike Laurie: Driving Innovation in Gaming, Esports, and Venture Capital
Team 14 August 2025

Spike Laurie is a prominent figure in the global gaming and esports industry, known for his influential role as a Partner at Hiro Capital, a leading London-based venture capital firm specializing in gaming studios, metaverse technologies, and digital fitness. With a career spanning leadership positions at ESL and Warner Bros.

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Portfolio Frameplay and iion Form Strategic Partnership to Create Global In-Game Advertising Powerhouse
Portfolio 16 June 2025

Partnership unites industry leaders to deliver unprecedented scale and reach across key markets

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