# Luke Alvarez

> Luke Alvarez is a Series A investor at Hiro Capital backing Gaming and Video Games. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hiro Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiro-capital)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 87%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-alvarez-699988171/

Luke Alvarez is a Series A investor at Hiro Capital focused on Gaming and Video Games. Luke is the Founder and General Partner of Hiro Capital, he has 30 years in Technology and 21 years in Digital Games. He has founded and invested in Games and Technology companies around the world. He was co-founder & CEO of Inspired Entertainment Inc, a Nasdaq listed mobile games and virtual sports technology leader with operations worldwide.Luke was a founding board member of The Cloud, the UK’s largest public access Wi-Fi operator and is a founding board member of Upskins, a video games content innovator. Luke was a Case Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, earned a First Class Honours in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of California, Berkeley. He is passionate about content and storytelling and their interaction with the future of technology. Luke grew up in a family of poets, writers and gamers and is an old-school rock climber. Luke leads Hiro’s investment strategy and compliance and focuses on Hiro’s digital sports, social network and game technology investments.Luke has 30 years in Technology and 21 years in Digital Games. He has founded and invested in Games and Technology companies around the world. He was co-founder & CEO of Inspired Entertainment Inc, a Nasdaq listed mobile games and virtual sports technology leader with operations worldwide. Luke was a founding board member of The Cloud, the UK’s largest public access Wi-Fi operator and is a founding board member of Upskins, a video games content innovator. Luke was a Case Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, earned a First Class Honours in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of California, Berkeley. He is passionate about content and storytelling and their interaction with the future of technology. Luke grew up in a family of poets, writers and gamers and is an old-school rock climber. Luke leads Hiro’s investment strategy and compliance and focuses on Hiro’s digital sports, social network and game technology investments.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 8 | 53% |
| Video Games | 6 | 40% |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| PC Games | 3 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 27% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Malta | 1 | 7% |
| Sweden | 1 | 7% |
| Belgium | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| FRVR | FRVR builds the ecosystem that brings captivating games to billions of players instantly. | $12.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Carv | Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski - it’s your digital ski coach. Built in consultation with Olympians, Carv gives you access to the feedback and knowledge that only elite skiers have had access to so far. With an extremely thin smart insert, Carv measures your motion and pressure distribution andrelays feedback through your earphones in real-time.Carv connects wirelessly to your smartphone to give simple, actionable feedback to casual skiers and detailed metrics and analysis for advanced and professional skiers.Carv lets you train, compete and challenge people with its detailed metrics and helps you improve your skiing with technique analysis. | $5.1M | Series A | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| FRVR | FRVR builds the ecosystem that brings captivating games to billions of players instantly. | $76M |  | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| FRVR | FRVR builds the ecosystem that brings captivating games to billions of players instantly. | $76M | Series A | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Frameplay | Frameplay is an Intrinsic advertising platform for video games. Frameplay offers a transparent, self-serve, gamer-first experience that encourages creativity whilst delivering sophisticated data and analytics to both advertisers and developers. Frameplay is truly the in-game advertising leader, enabling intrinsic advertising within video gameenvironments. | $8M | Series A | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| DreamCraft | DreamCraft is a platform that allows anyone to create, publish and monetize games without programming or art skills. | $10M | Series A | Nov 17, 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 |  |
| Snow Print Studios | Snowprint Studios is a collective of games industry veterans for the everyday mobile gamer developers of Legend of Solgard. It also the likes of King, DICE, Rovio, Unity, Zynga and elsewhere that is creating a new mid-core games category that brings together the old and the new while tapping their combined skills to deliver well-crafted mechanics,aesthetics, characters and more. Snowprint Studios aims to take the gameplay experience to richer, deeper levels while making mobile mid-core free-to-play games accessible. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Stockholm Sweden. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Makers Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makers-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dune Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dune-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [zVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — 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 Luke Alvarez invest in?

Luke Alvarez invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Software startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Luke Alvarez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Luke Alvarez closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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