Top 5 Hardware Startup Investors in Malta in May 2026

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Modrinth — Rinth's goal is to provide creators with an easy to use and functional platform where their work can be experienced, downloaded, and shared by gamers worldwide. We aim to turn the hobby of modding games to a stable career.
mod.io — Support mods on PC, console and mobile with mod.io, a platform which makes it easy to grow, manage and integrate UGC in-game, using our API, SDK and plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine and more.
Highlight — Highlight keeps track of your meetings, chats, and tasks so you can find answers, create, and act, all in one place, personalized for you.

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First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Algolia — 18,000+ organizations trust Algolia to build intuitive, adaptive, high-performing experiences with a unified AI search & retrieval platform spanning agentic, generative, and search.
depthfirst — An AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
Cinder Technologies — Cinder provides businesses everything they need to orchestrate and automate safety at scale with industry leading tools for content moderation, AI safety, and data compliance.

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Hiro Capital is a Luxembourg / London technology Venture Capital fund which invests in European and UK innovators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports. Hiro Capital generally invests at the post-seed Series A and B stages. We invest both in front-end Content creators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports and in deep tech sector-specificapplications of Cloud, Mobile, Streaming, Big Data, AI, Wearables, AR and VR technologies.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Meeple Corp — The Meeple Corp Games Studio Homepage - Transforming analogue play for the digital world.
Sidero Labs — Talos OS is a modern operating system designed for Kubernetes. Talos OS is not a general-purpose operating system, it reduces security vulnerabilities, and makes upgrading, and migrating from one environment to another, much easier. SideroLabs was founded in 2019 as Talos Systems.
Maintain Altitude — Maintain Altitude is a new mobile game development company that loves both music and games. The company is based in the United Kingdom.

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I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is: - the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people. - fundraising - strategy - focus - making tough decisions - cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Astral — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.

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