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Lionheart Ventures
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Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on the wise development of transformative technologies, with primary investment areas in artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies. The firm believes these sectors are uniquely poised to help bring about a better future for humanity, investing in exceptional, ethical founders developing technologies with the potential to impact humanity on a meaningful scale while generating attractive returns. For AI, Lionheart prioritizes companies that defend and enhance human flourishing, agency, and resilience as society transitions into the age of advanced AI. For mental health, the firm makes targeted investments in high-leverage areas including psychedelic medicine, novel drug development, and non-invasive neurotechnologies, recognizing that addressing the global mental health crisis builds collective resilience and supports wiser societal decision-making.
Notable quotes
“We invest in the wise development of transformative technologies, to help ensure that humanity has a thriving future. We developed our investment thesis from a cause prioritization exercise exploring which technologies we believe will have the greatest impact.”
“For our AI fund, we take the risks from advanced AI seriously, and we invest in AI startups which advance and defend human agency, resilience, and flourishing. We like and align with Vitalik's def/acc thesis.”
“We back formidable, ethical, growth-oriented founders addressing multi-billion-dollar markets. 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.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Softmax | Pre-seed | — | 2025-03 |
| Lucid Computing | Accelerator | — | 2025-01 |
| Piramidal | Seed | $6m | 2024-08 |
| Anthropic | Seed | — | — |
| Calm | Growth | — | — |
| Trek Health | Seed | $3m | — |
| Clerkenwell Health | Seed | — | 2022-10 |
| Reconnect Labs | Seed | — | — |
| Charm Industrial | Seed | — | — |
| Bexson Biomedical | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| PsyMed Ventures | 2 |
| Founder Collective | 1 |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 1 |
| Negev Capital | 1 |
| Empath Ventures | 1 |
| Adverb Ventures | 1 |
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