# Livingstone Ian

> Livingstone Ian is a seed investor at Hiro Capital (London) backing Video Games and Gaming. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hiro Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiro-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-livingstone-a2230b
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ian_livingstone
- Website: https://x.com/ian_livingstone

Livingstone Ian is a seed investor at Hiro Capital in London focused on Video Games and Gaming. Ian Livingstone is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Co-Founder and Partner of Hiro Capital. Ian previously worked at Flavourworks as a Non Executive Chairman.Ian Livingstone attended Altrincham Grammar School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $950k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $8M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video Games | 10 | 63% |
| Gaming | 9 | 56% |
| PC Games | 5 | 31% |
| Mobile | 3 | 19% |
| Android | 3 | 19% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 31% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 44% |
| United States | 4 | 25% |
| Malta | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meeple Corp | Meeple Corp is a digital board game developer dedicated to transforming classic tabletop games into captivating digital experiences. | $621.8K | Pre-Seed | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Noodle Cat Games | Noodle Cat is an independent game studio on a mission to change the current standard of game development. The Noodle Cat team is committed to learning, collaborating, and pushing boundaries in a healthy, flexible working environment. | $12M | Series A | Oct 20, 2023 |  |
| Telltale Games | Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace &Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, Wiiâ„¢, and Xbox 360â„¢, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year. | $8M | Series A | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Whitbread | Whitbread PLC is a hospitality company. The Company operates hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. The Company operates in two segments: Hotels & Restaurants, and Costa. The Hotels & Restaurants segment provides services in relation to accommodation and food. The Costa segment consists of operations of its branded, owned and franchisedcoffee outlets. Premier Inn is the Company's hotel business. The Company's restaurant brands include Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns. The Company operates over 730 Premier Inn hotels and over 64,000 rooms across the United Kingdom. The Company operates over 2,000 coffee shops across the United Kingdom, over 1,200 coffee stores in approximately 30 international markets and over 5,200 Costa Express self-serve units. | $188.9M | Post-IPO Equity | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Oxalis games | Oxalis Games develops games and is now creating the next generation of crypto games. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Firestoke | Firestoke is a publisher of indie PC and Console games. | $2.1M | Seed | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Skybound Entertainment | Skybound Entertainment is an imprint of image comics that provides comic book creators the opportunity to publish their work. It offers Robert Kirkman’s Eisner award-winning comic book series, The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur, Thief of Thieves and Clone as well as Witch Doctor, Guarding the Globe, and TheAstounding Wolf-Man.Since its inception, Skybound Entertainment has created television shows, merchandise, and a wide spectrum of platforms, games, and entertainment events. It was launched by Robert Kirkman in 2010.Skybound Entertainment is operated from Culver City, California. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Magicave | Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup. | $682.7K | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Twin Suns | Twin Suns Corp is a video game studio developing action games for console and PC. The company creates video games with its AAA class platform title, which will debut with an original game franchise, providing players around the world with creative and unexpected experiences. Tim Longo, Forest Swartout, and Jeff Morris co-founded the company. | $3.9M | Seed | May 12, 2021 |  |
| FRVR | FRVR builds the ecosystem that brings captivating games to billions of players instantly. | $3M | Convertible Note | May 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Behold Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/behold-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blocore](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocore) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Krafton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluehole) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hiro Capital

VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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.

4 contacts available at Hiro Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Livingstone Ian | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-livingstone |
| Luke Alvarez | Founder, General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luke-alvarez |
| Freeman Cherry | Co-founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-freeman-a9bd |
| Jason Willig | Operating Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-willig |

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## FAQ

### What does Livingstone Ian invest in?

Livingstone Ian invests primarily in Video Games, Gaming and PC Games startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Livingstone Ian's check size?

Livingstone Ian typically joins rounds of $950k–$4.5M at Seed and $8M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Livingstone Ian participates in.

### When did Livingstone Ian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Livingstone Ian closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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