Huub Heijnen brings an unusually hands-on technical background to venture investing: before joining Lionheart Ventures, he co-founded Scape working on visual positioning and 3D mapping, built what’s been described as the world’s first platform for fully autonomous evolution on hardware robots, and won an IEEE award for research on controlling agile quadruped robot motion, alongside work on hexapod robots that learn directly in the real world rather than just in simulation. He also stands out for how he thinks about technology itself, describing in his own writing a shift from pure enthusiasm for tech toward a more reflective view shaped by meditation, philosophy, and psychedelics, and he even describes himself professionally as an evolutionary roboticist rather than as a typical investor.