DARK STAR
Hiro Capital’s Dark Star event returns. Aimed at game studio founders who are thinking about raising money in 2024. The event brings together experienced investors, industry experts, and successful game studio founders to share their knowledge and insights on the fundraising process.
Hear from Hiro Capital’s Co-Founding Partner Sir Ian Livingstone, the Hiro Capital team and some of Hiro Capital’s successful founders.
Discover how:
To position your studio for a successful fundraising
Investors will view you and your studio
Current market conditions are impacting the fundraising landscape
The Hiro Capital team will be joined by:
Jan Joeckel, founder and CEO of Keen Games to talk about the leap from working with games publishers to becoming self published and launching Enshrouded
Andy Gore, founder and CEO of Soccerverse to talk about raising £2.5m from Hiro Capital and other investors, his expectations and reality
Brian Johnson, co-founder of Loric games to talk about his experience launching his studio with VC funding and the difference between pitching publishers and investors
As always, there will be time for you to ask your questions to the Hiro team and founders on the challenges and opportunities that you face
Click here to register.
INVESTORS IN THE FUTURE
Hiro Capital invests in innovators in Games, Esports, Digital Sports, Creative AI Platforms, Spatial Computing and Metaverse technologies.
We believe that Games, Sports and Spatial technologies will be at the heart of next generation human societies. For us, play is deep.
We are battle-scarred entrepreneurs who have founded games, sports and technology disruptors worth billions of dollars. We have led startups to IPOs in London and New York. We are gamers and sports nerds. We love gameplay, stories, IP and deep tech.
Hiro Capital is named for the hero you become when you play a game or sport; the hero you are, when you found and build a company; and because we are inspired by Hiro Protagonist, lead character in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, a hacker gamer swordsman who codes the Metaverse and saves the world against the odds.
We Believe That Games, Sports and Spatial Computing technologies will be a central pillar of life in the mid 21st century. We invest In the innovators who are building that future.
BUILDING THE METAVERSE OF TOMORROW
OUR INVESTMENTS
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Skybound Entertainment is a multiplatform content company that works closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending their stories to further platforms including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyondLos Angeles, USSeries B - 2022
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Stockholm, SwedenSnowprint Studios is a collective of games industry veterans from the likes of King, DICE, Rovio, Unity, Zynga and elsewhere that is creating a new mid-core games category that brings together the old and the new, while tapping their combined skills to deliver well crafted mechanics, aesthetics, characters and more.Series B - 2021
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Captivated by the continuing advancements of virtual reality, Polyarc's founders found it impossible to ignore such energizing and momentous creative possibilities. After leaving Bungie in 2015, they struck out on their own, seizing the unmistakable opportunity to make an impact on the future of game developmentSeattle, USSeries B - 2020
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London, UKFlavourworks is a revolutionary games studio which fuses the intensity of filmed content using real actors with the deep interactivity of narrative video games, creating a brand new genre at the intersection of Movies and GamesSeries A - 2019
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Skybound Entertainment is a multiplatform content company that works closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending their stories to further platforms including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyondLos Angeles, USSeries B - 2022
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Stockholm, SwedenSnowprint Studios is a collective of games industry veterans for the everyday mobile gamer developers of Legend of Solgard.Series B - 2021
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Captivated by the continuing advancements of virtual reality, Polyarc's founders found it impossible to ignore such energizing and momentous creative possibilities. After leaving Bungie in 2015, they struck out on their own, seizing the unmistakable opportunity to make an impact on the future of game developmentSeattle, USSeries B - 2020
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London, UKFlavourworks is a revolutionary games studio which fuses the intensity of filmed content using real actors with the deep interactivity of narrative video games, creating a brand new genre at the intersection of Movies and GamesSeries A - 2019
WORKING WITH US
HIRO’S IN THE NEWS
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London-based Hiro Capital led the round with participation from Makers Fund, Krafton, and Sony Innovation...October 20, 2023
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The acquisition of Snowprint is closely aligned with the M&A-driven element of MTG’s growth strategy...October 5, 2023
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This Series A round will go towards funding The Expanse series, The Wolf Among Us...February 16, 2023
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This project is an innovative massively multiplayer online soccer management sim that is set in...February 12, 2023
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Chicago-based studio Atom Switch has raised $3.4 million from Hiro Capital and 1Up Ventures. The investment...September 5, 2022
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While many commentators have pointed to sentiment and (some) data to suggest macro economic conditions...August 15, 2022