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Spike Laurie

Professional investor and games industry veteran with experience building esports production and business infrastructure across three continents. Partner at Hiro Capital.

London, England

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022

  • Venture Director

    2019 - 2022

    Hiro Capital is a London / Luxembourg technology Venture Capital fund which invests in UK, US and European innovators in Games, Metaverse Technology, Esports and Digital Fitness. We back experienced entrepreneurial teams, building innovative technologies and content with a strongly differentiated proposition and with the scaling opportunity to become very large.

2019 - 2021

  • Head of Sales, Marketing and Business Development

    2019 - 2021

    Prize Payments is an elegant and frictionless end-to-end automated prize payment system. Designed from the ground up for players & tournament organizers. This is a startup I've had the pleasure of discreetly working on, with an incredible team, for the last six months while we prepared for launch.

  • Vice President, Global Publisher and Developer Relations

    2018 - 2019

  • Senior Director, Global Publisher and Developer Relations

    2017 - 2018

  • Managing Director UK, International Director

    2015 - 2017

  • International Retention and Engagement Manager

    2012 - 2015

2009 - 2012

  • Producer

    2009 - 2012