BITKRAFT Ventures

BITKRAFT Ventures, founded in 2015 by German entrepreneur Jens Hilgers, is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, with a global presence in key cities such as Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, London, Madrid, and Lisbon. The firm specializes in investments across various sectors of digital entertainment, focusing on video games and esports. BITKRAFT targets game developers, gaming platforms, and gaming-related technologies, as well as emerging areas like web3, virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain applications. With a team that spans significant hubs of digital innovation, BITKRAFT Ventures aims to support the growth and development of interactive media and gaming industries.

Jasper Brand

Partner

Martin Garcia

CFO

Jonathan Huang

Principal

Benedikt Hubenthal

Associate

Ben Naylor

Analyst

Carlos Pereira

Partner

Justin Swart

Associate

Anuj Tandon

Partner

Jamie Wallace

Associate

Malte Barth

Founding General Partner

Past deals in Virtual Reality

Scriptic

Seed Round in 2023
Scriptic is an entertainment agency that operates a gaming studio focused on delivering interactive entertainment services for mobile devices. The company specializes in creating interactive dramas that simulate crime investigation scenarios, allowing users to detect, investigate, and solve murders through the smartphones of the fictional victims. By utilizing an artificial intelligence-led mobile app platform, Scriptic enables players to immerse themselves as the lead character in high-quality narrative-driven experiences.

Arcturus

Series A in 2022
Arcturus is a software company that specializes in the post-production and streaming of volumetric videos. The company's platform, Holosuite, enables creatives to finesse and amplify volumetric captures to fit artistic and production goals. HoloSuite is designed to author, edit, and stream volumetrically captured performers so that producers can create immersive virtual and augmented reality experiences using live-action performances.

Tripp

Series A in 2022
TRIPP Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a digital psychedelic wellness platform utilizing virtual and augmented reality to enhance emotional well-being. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with a satellite office in Chicago, TRIPP combines audio, visual elements, and gameplay mechanics with mindfulness techniques to create immersive experiences aimed at transforming users' emotional states. The platform is designed based on scientific research, demonstrating that interactive digital experiences can positively impact the brain. Through targeted sound frequencies, visuals, and interactive exercises, TRIPP provides users with tools to manage stress, anxiety, and promote a sense of calm and focus in their daily lives.

Ready Maker

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Ready Makers Inc. is a cross-platform programming environment designed for personal robotics, catering to users with no coding experience. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the platform allows individuals to create and share games using Unity3D, which can be played across various devices. Ready Makers Inc. supports major robotics platforms and provides a range of customizable professional-grade behaviors, such as bullet movement and physics simulations including gravity and torque. Additionally, it features user interface elements like timers and scores, as well as a visual coding language that simplifies programming through intuitive blocks. This accessibility empowers users to engage with technology creatively and effectively.

Ola GG

Seed Round in 2022
Ola GG is a developer of decentralized gaming software created to provide Hispanic play-to-earn gamers with a community platform. Gamers may earn money from gaming and enhance their quality of life thanks to the company's platform, which offers complete cryptocurrency and blockchain games as well as a sustainable virtual economy's integral web3 products and instructive games.

RSTLSS

Seed Round in 2022
RSTLSS is a developer of a digital fashion label that allows individuals to freely and fluidly express their identity. The company's platform gives artists, brands, and influencers the freedom and access to create and sell multiverse fashion through an engaging, gamified experience. It also grows crypto-native brands and onboards traditional internet protocols (IPs) into the metaverse via curated non-fungible token (NFT) drops, allowing them to create and monetize wearables and merchandise in the metaverse while maintaining complete control over their visual identities.

MYTY

Seed Round in 2021
MYTY operates a decentralized social platform designed to allow users to transcend the limitations of the physical world. The platform facilitates the conversion of crypto punks NFTs into customizable avatars, empowering individuals to express themselves creatively within a social metaverse. By leveraging NFT technology, MYTY offers a unique space where users can maximize their imagination and engage with others in a liberated digital environment.

Splash

Series A in 2021
Splash develops AI-powered video games that lets anyone create and perform music to live audiences inside virtual venues.

Spatial

Series B in 2021
OUR MISSION Ideas take on new life in three dimensions, offering more depth, clarity, and collaboration. At Spatial, we’re reimagining how teams design, interact, and solve problems by unlocking the power of spatial computing. Frustrated with the limitations of traditional tools, we set out to create something better—something that makes collaboration feel intuitive and immersive HOW WE STARTED What began as a simple experiment in spatial audio has grown into a robust platform for designing, sharing, and experiencing 3D environments in real time. Spatial isn’t just another tool — it's a whole new way to bring ideas to life TODAY Today, forward-thinking teams—from design studios to automotive innovators—use Spatial to transform their ideas into immersive experiences. We help them shape the future, one dimension at a time Spatial's team and demo location is located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Led by experienced leaders from Apple, Nest & PlutoTV and backed by DBL Partners, BITKRAFT Ventures, National Geographic Society, The Kraft Group, Marquee Sports Holdings, WS Development and others.

Arcturus

Seed Round in 2021
Arcturus is a software company that specializes in the post-production and streaming of volumetric videos. The company's platform, Holosuite, enables creatives to finesse and amplify volumetric captures to fit artistic and production goals. HoloSuite is designed to author, edit, and stream volumetrically captured performers so that producers can create immersive virtual and augmented reality experiences using live-action performances.

Tilt Five

Series A in 2020
Tilt Five, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing and manufacturing augmented reality (AR) products specifically designed for tabletop gaming. Founded in 2017 and based in San Jose, California, the company offers a unique gaming system that includes AR glasses to project holographic images, a game board that transforms physical spaces into interactive environments, and a wand for user interaction within these holographic realms. The system allows users to connect their existing devices, such as Windows PCs or Android phones, to access a wide range of games available on platforms like Google Play or Steam. Tilt Five aims to enhance social gaming experiences by enabling players to engage with friends and family in immersive, shared gaming environments.

Immutable Systems

Series B in 2020
Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizations to bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies.

Spatial

Series A in 2019
OUR MISSION Ideas take on new life in three dimensions, offering more depth, clarity, and collaboration. At Spatial, we’re reimagining how teams design, interact, and solve problems by unlocking the power of spatial computing. Frustrated with the limitations of traditional tools, we set out to create something better—something that makes collaboration feel intuitive and immersive HOW WE STARTED What began as a simple experiment in spatial audio has grown into a robust platform for designing, sharing, and experiencing 3D environments in real time. Spatial isn’t just another tool — it's a whole new way to bring ideas to life TODAY Today, forward-thinking teams—from design studios to automotive innovators—use Spatial to transform their ideas into immersive experiences. We help them shape the future, one dimension at a time Spatial's team and demo location is located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Led by experienced leaders from Apple, Nest & PlutoTV and backed by DBL Partners, BITKRAFT Ventures, National Geographic Society, The Kraft Group, Marquee Sports Holdings, WS Development and others.

Ready Maker

Series A in 2019
Ready Makers Inc. is a cross-platform programming environment designed for personal robotics, catering to users with no coding experience. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the platform allows individuals to create and share games using Unity3D, which can be played across various devices. Ready Makers Inc. supports major robotics platforms and provides a range of customizable professional-grade behaviors, such as bullet movement and physics simulations including gravity and torque. Additionally, it features user interface elements like timers and scores, as well as a visual coding language that simplifies programming through intuitive blocks. This accessibility empowers users to engage with technology creatively and effectively.

Lofelt

Series A in 2019
Lofelt is developing cutting-edge haptic technology. Their aim is to provide the most remarkable haptic experiences on the market – spearheading the adoption of high-definition haptics in mobile, AR/VR, headset and gaming industries. Their first consumer product was the Basslet - a wearable watch-sized subwoofer. They are currently working with world-renowned brands to improve the user experience in some of the most recognized consumer products and they recently partnered with Razer to launch the Razer Nari Ultimate Wireless Headset. As a deep tech company in the heart of Berlin, they stay true to German engineering heritage while growing our business globally. They are an efficient, meticulous and fast-moving company driven by a dynamic team. Their hardware mechanics, electrical engineers, software developers, product designers and business professionals come together to create truly remarkable haptic experiences.

WTFast

Angel Round in 2017
WTFast is the Gamers Private Network (GPN). Our goal is to have the fastest and most secure network on the Internet. While we currently have a large addressable market with MMO and eSports segments, we aim to have the must have infrastructure for the emerging VR/AR market to ensure a smooth connection without motion sickness for sophisticated online games.
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