Nick Clegg joins VC firm HIRO Capital to target spatial AI opportunities

Nick Clegg, the former president of global affairs at Meta and deputy prime minister of Britain, has joined founder-led venture capital firm HIRO Capital to invest in spatial AI innovation in Europe, the firm said on Wednesday.

Clegg will join HIRO’s general partners Luke Alvarez, Cherry Freeman and British computer games legend Ian Livingstone in the new HIRO III fund, which is aiming to have more than 500 million euros ($582 million) to deploy.

Yann LeCun, who recently announced he was standing down as Meta’s chief AI scientist, will join HIRO’s…