Nick Clegg joins HIRO Capital as general partner to back spatial AI and robotics in Europe
Summary
Former Meta president of global affairs and ex–UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has joined London- and Luxembourg-based VC firm HIRO Capital as a general partner for its new HIRO III fund, which aims to deploy more than €500 million into European spatial AI, robotics, defence, longevity and gaming scaleups. The fund's advisory board adds AI luminaries including former Meta chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, alongside figures from Google DeepMind, ESA, and NATO’s innovation arm, underscoring a push to close Europe’s scale-up capital gap in strategic AI-heavy sectors.([reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/technology/nick-clegg-joins-vc-firm-hiro-capital-target-spatial-ai-opportunities-2025-12-10/))
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