Our approach
Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on the wise development of transformative technologies.
Our main areas of investment focus are artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies. We believe these sectors are uniquely poised to help bring about a better future for humanity.
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 investors.
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
Carl Sagan
Artificial intelligence
The emergence of advanced AI will be more disruptive than the Industrial Revolution. We invest in the development of AI technologies which defend and enhance human flourishing, agency, and resilience, to help ensure this transition goes well.
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.
Who we are
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.
We're specialized
As a firm, we’ve narrowed our focus to only the sectors where we can have the greatest impact – AI and frontier mental health. Our network of expert advisors support us in developing intimate understandings of these areas.
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.
Anthropic, founded by former members of OpenAI, specializes in developing general AI systems and language models, with a company ethos of responsible AI usage.
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.
Encultured AI is a video game company focused on enabling the safe introduction of AI technologies into our game world.
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.
