BITKRAFT Ventures

BITKRAFT Ventures is a global venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jens Hilgers. It maintains a multi-city team with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Madrid and Lisbon, and focuses on early-stage investments in videogames, esports and related immersive digital entertainment. Positioned as a global investment platform, it pursues opportunities across video gaming, immersive technology, interactive media, Web3 and AI, with activity spanning North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Malte Barth

Founding Partner

Jasper Brand

Senior Associate

Adrian Galea

Vice President, Finance

Jens Hilgers

General Partner

Jonathan Huang

Partner

Benedikt Hubenthal

Analyst

Piers Kicks

Senior Associate

Faye Maidment

Associate

Ben Naylor

Technical Crypto Analyst

Carlos Pereira

Partner

Scott Rupp

General Partner

Justin Swart

Principal

Anuj Tandon

Partner

Nicolas Vereecke

Venture Partner

Jamie Wallace

Associate

Past deals in Virtual Reality

Buddy.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Buddy.ai is an innovative company that offers a voice-based virtual tutoring platform designed to teach English to children worldwide. Utilizing proprietary speech and virtual human technologies, Buddy.ai addresses language learning challenges by providing an engaging and adaptive learning experience through a cartoon character tutor. The platform enables users to give children unlimited speaking practice, making it a cost-effective alternative to traditional tutoring. With a focus on native Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Polish speakers, Buddy.ai aims to make English language learning accessible to millions, with plans to expand into additional languages. The company has achieved significant market presence, ranking in the Top 10 of the App Store’s Kids and Education charts in various countries across Latin America and Europe. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Buddy.ai has generated over $4.5 million in sales and is recognized with multiple international awards for its contributions to educational technology.

Mirror World

Series A in 2024
Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where they aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.

Scriptic

Seed Round in 2023
Scriptic operates a Generative AI-powered mobile app platform specializing in interactive dramas. Users can engage as the main character in high-quality dramas, with the flagship experience being a crime drama where they investigate and solve murders through the victim's smartphone.

Latent Technology

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Latent Technology specializes in developing advanced animation technology for virtual worlds. The company employs artificial intelligence, specifically reinforcement learning and generative modeling, to create highly realistic and responsive characters. These characters can interact dynamically with their environments in real-time, thanks to neural networks. This innovation enables gaming studios to offer immersive experiences by enhancing the physical responsiveness of digital characters within virtual settings.

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 is a digital wellness company that develops immersive experiences for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mobile devices to support emotional well-being. The platform combines mindfulness structures, sound frequencies, visuals, and interactive elements to influence mood—helping users feel calmer, more focused, and less stressed. Aimed at consumer households, TRIPP delivers these experiences through VR, AR, and mobile formats, grounded in research-based content. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with a satellite development office in Chicago.

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.

Playable Worlds

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2018, Playable Worlds specializes in developing cloud-native online games. The company focuses on creating immersive worlds with regular content updates and strong community engagement.

LIV

Series A in 2022
LIV is a Prague-based company that develops virtual reality software and extended reality capture technology for creating, publishing, and sharing immersive VR experiences. Its platform provides a full-stack content creation toolset that enables developers and creators to build immersive VR games and entertainment content and to share these experiences with audiences. The company focuses on empowering VR creators to live stream experiences in real time, turning passive viewers into active participants. Since launching in 2018, LIV has driven over 1.5 billion views, reflecting strong engagement with its audience-centric approach to VR storytelling and gameplay.

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 is a decentralized social platform that enables users to express themselves freely and escape physical world limitations through the use of NFT avatars.

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.

Pocket Worlds

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2015, Pocket Worlds is a Y Combinator-backed company that has grown rapidly to serve over 40 million users. They specialize in developing cutting-edge technology for both professional developers and enthusiasts to create immersive virtual worlds within the Highrise universe.

Tilt Five

Series A in 2020
Tilt Five, Inc. is a company that specializes in augmented reality (AR) products designed for tabletop gaming. Founded in 2017 by Jeri Ellsworth and Jamie Gennis, and based in San Jose, California, the company offers an innovative gaming system that includes AR glasses, a game board, and a wand. This system utilizes advanced projection technology to deliver immersive 3D holographic imagery and sound, allowing users to interact with the gaming environment and each other in a new way. Tilt Five's products enable seamless connectivity with existing computers, such as Windows PCs and Android devices, and support popular gaming platforms like Google Play and Steam, enhancing social gaming experiences for friends and family.

Playable Worlds

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018, Playable Worlds specializes in developing cloud-native online games. The company focuses on creating immersive worlds with regular content updates and strong community engagement.

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.

Playable Worlds

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Playable Worlds specializes in developing cloud-native online games. The company focuses on creating immersive worlds with regular content updates and strong community engagement.

Lofelt

Series A in 2019
Lofelt GmbH, founded in 2014 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the development of advanced haptic technology aimed at enhancing user experiences across various industries, including gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality, consumer electronics, and entertainment. The company's flagship product, the Basslet, is a wearable device that allows users to feel music's bass frequencies, bridging the gap between audio and physical sensation. Lofelt is committed to spearheading the adoption of high-definition haptics and collaborates with prominent brands, such as Razer, to innovate within the audio and gaming sectors. The company prides itself on its strong engineering expertise and dynamic team, which includes hardware mechanics, electrical engineers, software developers, and product designers, all dedicated to creating exceptional haptic experiences that connect users more deeply with their digital devices.

Spatial

Seed Round 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.

WTFast

Angel Round in 2017
WTFast operates the Gamers Private Network, a service that optimizes online game connectivity by routing traffic through hundreds of alternative network paths instead of the default internet route. Using patent-backed technology, it aims to reduce latency and improve stability for latency-sensitive titles across MMO and eSports, with an eye toward VR/AR gaming to deliver smooth connections and reduce motion sickness.
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