We invest in the wise development of transformative technologies.

Our approach

Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk. We do this by supporting the wise development of transformative technologies.

Our main areas of investment focus are transformative artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies.

Leading academics estimate a 1-in-6 chance of human extinction by the year 2100, largely driven by risks from emerging technologies. And now, with the exponential growth of AI, predictions are getting worse.

Our startups are part of the solution.

We invest in exceptional, ethical founders who are developing transformative technologies that have the potential to impact humanity on a meaningful scale, while generating attractive returns for our LPs.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
Carl Sagan

Our methodology

Mental health

The current mental health crisis impacts both our quality of life and our ability to collectively make wise decisions for the future. We invest in frontier technologies such as psychedelic medicine and neuromodulation that can dramatically improve the standard of care available today. 

Transformative artificial intelligence

The emergence of advanced AI will be more disruptive than the Industrial Revolution. We are pioneering the category of AI safety investing – by carefully deploying capital towards the development and alignment of advanced AI, we contribute to ensuring that this transition goes well.

Who we are

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We're founders

As former founders, our team has raised money from the world’s leading VCs and built companies that have successfully exited. We understand the founder journey from firsthand experience.

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We're specialized

As a firm, we’ve narrowed our focus to only the sectors where we can have the greatest impact – frontier mental health and transformative AI. Our network of expert advisors support us in developing intimate understandings of these areas.

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We're principled

Guided by our values, we prioritize intellectual honesty, ethical conduct and counterfactual impact. We aspire to lead conversations around how to responsibly steward humanity’s most transformative technologies.

Portfolio

We back formidable, ethical, growth-oriented founders addressing multi-billion dollar markets.

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Anthropic, founded by former members of OpenAI, specializes in developing general AI systems and language models, with a company ethos of responsible AI usage.

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Calm offers a global health and wellness brand application designed to help its users meditate and relax. Their mission is to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress.

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Encultured AI is a video game company focused on enabling the safe introduction of AI technologies into our game world.

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Reconnect Labs is a Swiss, clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing Regenerative Therapeutics™ for mental health at the forefront of neuroscience and precision psychopharmacology. Led by neuroscientists from the University of Zurich Psychiatric University Clinic (PUKZH), Reconnect translates 30 years of in-human research and clinical practice.

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