We invest in AI, robotics, digital entertainment and gaming, at every stage.
Most see companies from the outside. We know them from the inside.
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Selected investments
Selected investments across Richard Skelhorn and associated investment entities.
Artificial intelligence
Frontier AI research and the Claude family of models.
AI infrastructure
Accelerated computing and the chips behind modern AI.
Space
Reusable rockets, spacecraft and Starlink.
Defence and autonomy
Autonomous systems and the software that connects them.
Further holdings across Richard Skelhorn and associated investment entities.
Holdings may be held by Richard Skelhorn personally or through associated investment entities. They are not investments of a HIT Ventures fund, not a complete list and not a record of performance. Company names are trademarks of their owners and do not imply endorsement.
Arena Entertainment
Arena Entertainment is Richard Skelhorn’s own operating business: a digital entertainment company building online platforms, games and media.
We know what makes people come back.
We know what it takes to ship, and to scale.
We know what it costs to win a customer.
We know when the numbers really work.
Everything we learn there, we bring to every company we back.
A real advantage, and a reason customers choose it rather than just try it.
Growth matters most when it pays for itself.
Founders with the ambition to go far and the discipline to get there.
The questions we ask of every company, including our own.
What we back
We back technology that changes how people work, play, defend and explore.
Intelligence put to work. The models, and the products that make them useful every day.
Tools that become standards. Software and deep technology that whole industries come to rely on.
Products people choose to return to. Where we started. We know what wins an audience, and what keeps it.
Our home ground. Platforms, payments and play, built to scale and built to be trusted.
Technology that has to work. Robotics, autonomy and defence systems built for the hardest conditions.
Built for orbit. Launch, spaceports and the infrastructure that turns space into a business.
Every stage
We back exceptional businesses wherever they are in the journey.
Early stage
First product
Backing the team and the idea before the numbers arrive.
Venture
Initial traction
Turning early demand into a repeatable engine.
Growth
Expansion
New markets, new products and the team to run them.
Late stage
Established scale
Leaders with their biggest chapter still ahead.
The people
An entrepreneur and an investor, judging every company together.
Founder
25 years as an entrepreneur
Builds companies across online gaming, digital entertainment and software, with real-estate interests alongside. Co-founded Atemi Group, acquired by Better Collective in 2020. Founder of Arena Entertainment. Based in Monaco.
Managing Partner
14 years at Goldman Sachs
From Goldman Sachs to family-office investing. Leads investment strategy and capital allocation.
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Offices
Close to founders across Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Monaco
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Dubai
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Miami
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London
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Contact
Send us your deck, your stage and what you are raising.
email@hit.vc