# BITKRAFT Ventures > Global early-stage venture capital firm investing in gaming, interactive media, and immersive technology. Founded 2017 by Jens Hilgers. ## About - [Vision and thesis](https://www.bitkraft.vc/): BITKRAFT homepage with firm overview and investment thesis - [People](https://www.bitkraft.vc/people): Partners and investment professionals across Europe, North America, and Asia - [Strategies](https://www.bitkraft.vc/strategies): BITKRAFT investment strategies and focus areas - [Insights](https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights): Portfolio news, theses, market research, and industry reports - [Portfolio](https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio): Active portfolio companies - [Careers](https://www.bitkraft.vc/careers): Open roles at BITKRAFT - [Contact](https://www.bitkraft.vc/contact): Founder pitches, press, investor relations ## Funds (7) - BITKRAFT Venture Fund 1 (BV1): Early Stage Venture Fund investing in Seed and Series A. 165M US$ and 2019 vintage. Not actively investing any more. - BITKRAFT Venture Fund 2 (BV2): Early Stage Venture Fund investing in Seed and Series A. 270M US$ and 2021 vintage. Not actively investing any more in new companies, purely follow on. - BITKRAFT Venture Fund 3 (BV3): Early Stage Venture Fund investing in Pre-Seed and Seed, occasionally Series A companies. 100M US$ target and 2024 vintage. Actively investing. - BITKRAFT Token Fund 1 (BIT1): 70M US$ size Venture Fund investing in Equity and Tokens in early stage Web3 companies with a focus on interactive entertainment. Not actively deploying any more. - BITKRAFT Token Fund 2 (BIT2): 230M US$ size Venture Fund investing in Equity and Tokens in early stage Web3 companies with a focus on interactive entertainment and gamified consumer apps. Actively deploying. - BITKRAFT Opportunity Fund 1 (OP1): Later stages Venture Fund investing into Growth phase startups typically Series B and later. 90M US$ in size. Actively deploying. - BITKRAFT Customer Growth Fund 1 (BCG1): Credit fund providing scaling capital for User Acquisition and Customer Growth. Actively deploying with commitments from 500K US$ to 20M US$ ## Portfolio (134 active companies) ### 1UP Ventures - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/1up-ventures - Profile:(North America · Platform · ["Seed","Series A"]) - Description: Building a diverse and inclusive community of talented, experienced, creative independent game developers. We support indie teams with capital, operational expertise, and community resources to help them create great games and achieve sustainable success. ### Actioneer (Glitchkraft) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/actioneer-glitchkraft - Profile:(North America · Platform) - Description: AI first Mobile Game publishing platform by two founders who are very well known and referenced in Indian gaming industry worked with global gaming companies in key role. ### Addressable.io - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/addressable-io - Profile:(Middle East · Platform · Series A) - Description: Addressable is a Web3-focused marketing and user acquisition platform that enables companies to identify, target, and convert crypto users by linking on-chain wallet activity with off-chain identities (e.g. social profiles). It builds a proprietary identity graph and uses AI-driven attribution and analytics to help businesses run highly targeted ad campaigns, optimize conversion funnels, and measure ROI across the Web2–Web3 user journey. ### Airoclip - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/airoclip - Profile:(Asia · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Mobile games company developing casual puzzle games for women aged 35+ in western markets ### Alethea - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/alethea - Profile:(Asia · Platform · 1 - Series A) - Description: leading synthetic media protocol, to create a photorealistic and emotive avatars with elements of crypto. Alethia AI builds real-time, character-led video agents and digital twins that let brands, creators, and enterprises deliver always-on, interactive engagement across education, marketing, storytelling, and community management. ### ALLCITY Network, Inc. - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/allcity-network-inc - Profile:(North America · Series B) - Description: Next-gen digital sports media powerhouse modernizing fan engagement with hyper-local sports content, creator-led communities, and community-driven experiences that bring fans closer to the teams they love ### AMGI - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/amgi - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: AMGI Studios is an independent animation technology and gaming studio building at the intersection of AI, real-time animation, gaming, storytelling, and Web3. Its core focus is “character-driven AI” — creating lifelike interactive characters and digital experiences that can respond dynamically to users — alongside proprietary real-time animation workflows that reduce production time/costs. The studio’s products include My Pet Hooligan, a Web3-enabled social shooter and flagship IP; Click Zero, an AI-driven animated chat companion app; and WinVote, a DAO governance platform. ### AMI Labs - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ami-labs - Profile:(Europe · Immersive Technology) - Description: Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, aims to create what LeCun calls “world models”: AI systems that understand physics, maintain persistent memory, and plan complex actions rather than simply predicting the next word. ### Anzu - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/anzu - Profile:(Middle East · Platform · Seed) - Description: anzu is aa leanding intrinsic in-game ad solution for mobile, pc, and console. anzu’s in-game ads put players first and help advertisers reach audiences programmatically in a non-disruptive and highly engaging way. ### Appcharge - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/appcharge - Profile:(Middle East · Platform · Series A) - Description: Appcharge is an AI infused analytics platform creating proven monetization lift for games. ### Arcturus - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/arcturus - Profile:(North America · Immersive Technology · Seed) - Description: Software tools for volumetric video creation and streaming. ### Audiotool - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/audiotool - Profile:(Europe · Platform · Seed) - Description: Cloud based Digital Audio Workstation with real time collaboration and social features, enabling music creators to produce, collaborate and share music in the cloud. ### Avalon Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/avalon-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 1 - Series A) - Description: Avalon is building an AI-powered, player-generated online game universe where players can create a persistent character, move across official and user-created worlds, and build their own RPGs, dungeons, PvP arenas, social spaces, or entirely new experiences using natural-language creation tools. The platform combines MMO-style exploration, skill-based gameplay, crafting, marketplaces, guilds, creator monetization/revenue share, and intelligent NPCs that can remember and react to players. In short: Avalon is trying to be a creator-first “living multiverse” for games — closer to a next-gen Roblox/UGC MMO layer powered by AI, persistent identity, and player-owned worlds. ### Baton - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/baton - Profile:(North America · Seed) - Description: Baton is a music collaboration and marketplace platform for unreleased music, built to help artists, producers, managers, A&Rs, and catalog owners organize works-in-progress, collaborate privately or publicly, source new material, and track who has accessed or used creative assets. The platform combines cloud library management, collaborative spaces, audio editing tools, placement opportunities, and buy/sell functionality, with a broader goal of improving chain-of-custody, attribution, and compensation for music creators. In short: Baton is building infrastructure for creative exchange in music — making unreleased songs, samples, and packs easier to share, monetize, and properly credit across the industry. ### Bebopbee - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/bebopbee - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: next-gen emotive, dynamic casual games. ### Believer - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/believer - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: A game studio developing a next.gen open-world game with transmedia IP potential ### Billions.network (fnk as Disco.xyz) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/billions-network-fnk-as-disco-xyz - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Solution that aims to leverage blockchain technology to bridge the gap between digital and physical identities ### Bit Fry Game Studios - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/bit-fry-game-studios - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: sports arcade video-game studio ### Blackpool - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/blackpool - Profile:(Europe · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: BlackPool Finance is a Web3 gaming/NFT asset management DAO that invests in, manages, and helps scale digital gaming assets across ecosystems like Sorare, Big Time, Aavegotchi, Cometh, and other NFT/game economies. The company combines professional portfolio management, data analytics, and on-chain ownership structures to give its community exposure to gaming NFTs, early-stage blockchain gaming deals, and yield-generating strategies through its $BPT token ecosystem. In short: BlackPool is trying to be a crypto-native asset manager and community investment DAO for the Web3 gaming economy. ### Blocklords - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/blocklords - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Blocklords is a medieval grand-strategy game franchise from MetaKing Studios that blends city-building, farming/resource management, alliances, warfare, and player-driven political control into a persistent Web3 strategy world. Players can choose different paths — grow and trade, raid and fight, govern cities/kingdoms, or compete for power — with “Legendary Heroes” functioning as key playable/ownable characters that can rule other players, control taxes, set bounties, hire guards, and start with specialized traits. In short: Blocklords is trying to build a crypto-native strategy MMO/IP where player decisions, asset ownership, and social-political gameplay shape the world over time. ### Brandbow - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/brandbow - Profile:(Middle East · Platform · Seed) - Description: Brandbow is a platform revolutionizing the e-commerce potential in the merchandise segment for brand and ip owners. ### Brinkbound Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/brinkbound-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Game studio developing compeititve AAA shooting games ### Buddy.ai - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/buddy-ai - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Seed) - Description: Personalized AI language learning tutor for kids ### Burn Ghost - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/burn-ghost - Profile:(North America · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: Burn Ghost is a casual “play-to-win” gaming platform built around quick, skill-based games where users compete for prizes such as cash, NFTs/digital collectibles, crypto, and other rewards. The company’s wedge is turning familiar casual formats like trivia/arcade-style games into lightweight competitions that can drive fandom, community engagement, and repeat play, with entry fees and rewards layered on top. In short: Burn Ghost is a Web3-enabled real-money / prize gaming platform for casual competitive games, positioned around skill-based play rather than pure chance. ### Cambria - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/cambria - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Cambria is a crypto-native “risk-to-earn” MMO inspired by old-school games like RuneScape and Ultima Online, where players compete across skilling, PvP, PvE, trading, politics, banditry, and exploration inside a medieval fantasy economy. The game is built around real stakes and onchain significance, meaning player actions, territory, resources, and rewards can carry financial value rather than being purely cosmetic/progression-based. In short: Cambria is building a high-stakes onchain MMO where social coordination, risk-taking, resource competition, and player-driven economies define the core gameplay loop. Play your own specialized role in a high-stakes competition for sovereign territory and limited resources, set in a medieval fantasy universe inspired by oldschool MMOs like Runescape and Ultima Online. ### Carbonated Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/carbonated-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: Carbonated is an independent mobile game studio founded by veterans from Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Blizzard, focused on building hardcore PvEvP games for phones with AI-driven moment-to-moment gameplay. Its flagship title, MadWorld, is a high-fidelity third-person mobile shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world where players fight, team up across maps/modes, discover weapon blueprints, build arsenals, and compete in a Web3-enabled economy. In short: Carbonated is building ambitious mobile-first shooter experiences that combine core-gamer combat, AI-enhanced gameplay systems, and digital ownership mechanics. ### Carry 1st - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/carry-1st - Profile:(Africa · Series B) - Description: carry1st is a leading consumer fintech platform, helping global brands unlock hard-to-reach markets by enabling local payments, boosting digital sales, and simplifying settlements across 19 core markets across africa and the middle east. ### Cartridge - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/cartridge - Profile:(North America · Platform · Series A) - Description: Cartridge is an onchain gaming infrastructure platform for studios that want to add player-owned economies, game-native wallets/identity, asset trading, and real-money rewards into their games. Its stack includes Cartridge Controller, a wallet/identity layer built for smoother player onboarding and open economies, and Dojo Engine, an open-source deterministic onchain game engine where game rules and state are transparent and verifiable. In short: Cartridge is building the backend rails for onchain games that want to feel more like real games while supporting ownership, marketplaces, provable fairness, and compliant skill-based rewards. ### CCP Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ccp-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: CCP Games is the parent company of EVE Frontier. EVE Frontier is an expansion to the EVE universe focused on significantly leveraging onchain elements for unprecedented degree of player freedom e.g., the ability to deploy certain mods directly into the game via smart assemblies ### Circle Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/circle-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: circle games is an istanbul-based mobile gaming company dedicated to creating high-quality experiences with user-centered design. we believe that "details are the product," a mentality that drives everything we do—from game design to player engagement. join us at circle games, where each player experience is exceptionally crafted, and every team member shapes our journey! ### CoinFello Labs (fka Hyperplay) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/coinfello-labs-fka-hyperplay - Profile:(North America · Platform · Series A) - Description: CoinFello Labs (FKA HyperPlay) is an AI crypto agent that lets users research, execute, and automate onchain actions through natural-language chat while keeping custody of their own wallets. The product understands a user’s wallet context and can help with actions like swapping, bridging, staking, finding yield opportunities, setting alerts, or automating DeFi strategies, with granular permissions, spending limits, expiry dates, and revocation controls so the agent cannot freely access funds. In short: CoinFello is building the self-custodial execution layer for AI agents in crypto — turning complex DeFi workflows into simple conversational commands across EVM chains. ### COR3 - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/cor3 - Profile:(Middle East · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: L1 focused on AAA hardcore games anchored by a new title called Fragmentary Order, made by one of the main co-founders of Escape from Tarkov, Nikita Buyev ### Darkbright Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/darkbright-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Darkbright Studios is a game studio originally incubated by Treasure DAO, focused on building accessible midcore games that blend cozy life-sim mechanics, RPG progression, UGC, and seamless Web3 ownership. Its flagship title, Smolbound, is described as a quirky life-sim RPG with farming, exploration, collection, travel, creator-made content, and a colorful fantasy world, with plans to launch on Treasure’s Layer-2 ecosystem. In short: Darkbright is building a Web3-native cozy RPG studio around Smolbound, combining Animal Crossing-style comfort, player creativity, and blockchain-enabled ownership into a long-term live game world. ### Digital Fire Studios - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/digital-fire-studios - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Games studio building casual games and distribution tools on telegram ### Discord - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/discord - Profile:(North America · Platform · Late Stage) - Description: Community platform and next-gen social network anchored in the games community. ### Distinct Possibility Studios (fka Fusion Point Studios) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/distinct-possibility-studios-fka-fusion-point-studios - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: Distinct Possibility Studios is an independent game studio led by veteran MMO and FPS developers, building Reaper Actual, an open-world persistent shooter. The game is designed around large-scale, always-on digital warfare, where players participate in a shared combat environment rather than isolated match-based sessions. DPS is positioning Reaper Actual as a blend of MMO-style persistence and tactical FPS combat, with the goal of creating a deeper, more durable shooter experience built around territory, coordination, and long-running player conflict. ### Donut - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/donut - Profile:(North America · Series A) - Description: Donut is an agentic crypto browser built for active traders, combining market discovery, risk analysis, strategy generation, and onchain execution inside the browser itself. The product is designed to let users move from signal to trade without bouncing between Twitter, charts, wallets, DEXs, and analytics tools, with AI agents that can interpret market context, reason through trading ideas, and help execute onchain actions. The broader positioning is a browser-native trading cockpit for crypto: part research terminal, part execution layer, and part AI trading assistant for users who want faster, more integrated workflows. ### Epic Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/epic-games - Profile:(North America · Late Stage) - Description: games developer, engine technology, and operates a game store ### Forge - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/forge - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Forge is an all-in-one self-publishing platform for Steam game studios, helping teams playtest, market, engage, and sell games before and after launch. The platform includes tools for sourcing relevant playtesters, managing waitlists and beta keys, building no-code game marketing pages, running quests/referral campaigns, tracking wishlists and ROAS, managing Discord/email/creator communities, and analyzing player cohorts and engagement. Forge is positioning itself as a go-to-market and LiveOps layer for indie and mid-sized PC game developers, combining playtesting, community growth, marketing automation, and AI agents into one workflow. ### Gamezop - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/gamezop - Profile:(Asia · Platform · Series A) - Description: Leading Indian Mobile Games publishing platform ### ggwp - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ggwp - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: ggwp helps games harness their data to create safer and more positive experiences for their players. our ambition is to transform game moderation: by thoughtfully leveraging ai to identify and respond to toxic incidents and empowering moderators to become superhuman with automation and streamlined tools. ### Global Worldwide - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/global-worldwide - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · ["Pre-Series A"]) - Description: Global World Wide(GWW) is a mobile gaming company and creator of Kingdom Maker(KM) ### Higgsfield AI - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/higgsfield-ai - Profile:(North America · Seed) - Description: AI video company for commercially viable use cases and changing workflows on mobile ### Immutable - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/immutable - Profile:(Oceania · Platform · 2 - Series B) - Description: Immutable is advancing the future of gaming through Immutable Play Platform, the leading platform for discovering and engaging with games, Immutable Audience Builder, supporting the successful growth and launch of leading game studios, and the Immutable Passport, a global gaming wallet with over 6 million users. ### Immutable Token - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/immutable-token - Profile:(Oceania · Platform · 2 - Series B) - Description: leading NFT scaling infrastructure on top of Ethereum ### IMVU - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/imvu - Profile:(North America · 1 - Series A) - Description: IMVU is a long-running 3D avatar social platform / “social metaverse” where users create highly customizable avatars, chat, attend virtual parties, make friends, play games, and shop for digital fashion/items across mobile and desktop. The platform has a large creator economy, with virtual goods created and sold by users, and positions creativity, avatar identity, and social connection as the core loop. In short: IMVU is a virtual-world social network built around avatars, user-generated digital goods, and persistent online relationships. ### Infinity Force Limited - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/infinity-force-limited - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Hybridized 4X MMORTS Title Incubated by Everest Ventures Group ### Intract - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/intract - Profile:(Asia · Platform · Pre-Seed) - Description: Intract is a Web3 growth and engagement platform that helps crypto projects acquire, verify, educate, and retain users through gamified quests, rewards, loyalty campaigns, and onchain/social task verification. Projects can launch no-code campaigns that ask users to complete actions like joining communities, learning about a protocol, making onchain transactions, or participating in ecosystem events, while Intract provides fraud resistance, analytics, user-quality checks, and access to a large Web3 user/community network. The company appears to be expanding beyond questing into a broader Web3 user data and identity layer, using wallet activity, reputation, and user-permissioned data to support targeted campaigns, proof-of-humanity, portable KYC, and personalized crypto experiences. Now working on Investabl - the global trading infrastructure for commodity & forex trading. Transparent rails to protect against stop hunting withdrawal freezes & enable 24/7 market access. ### Inworld AI - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/inworld-ai - Profile:(North America · Seed) - Description: Building "brains for virtual characters", helping buid virtual characters with high configurability, context awareness, natural behaviors ### Itherael VCC - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/itherael-vcc - Profile:(Asia · Seed) - Description: Web3 Games focussed Fund by former Netease head of Web3. Focussed on China games founders ### Jabali - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/jabali - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: AI native-game creation software company focusing on content creation, working towards becoming the AI standalone engine ### Jin Anomaly - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/jin-anomaly - Profile:(Asia · Games/Content/IP · Pre-Seed) - Description: Gaming studio developing the Jin Universe games. Jin Anomaly is a 3D anime rogue-lite action RPG and will be the first installation of the Jin Universe IP. ### Karate Combat - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/karate-combat - Profile:(North America · Immersive Technology · Series A) - Description: Karate Combat is a full-contact striking league that turns professional karate into a modern combat-sports entertainment product, combining live events, elite fighters, digital production, and crypto-native fan participation. The league features Olympic medalists, national champions, and other high-level strikers competing across weight divisions, with events presented in immersive CGI environments powered by Unreal Engine. Karate Combat also layers in a Web3 community model through the $KARATE token and app-based fan voting, positioning the company as a hybrid of sports league, media property, and gamified combat-sports ecosystem. ### Klang Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/klang-games - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · Series C) - Description: Klang is an independent game development studio based in berlin. it was founded by three icelanders in the spring of 2013. in july 2015, klang launched its first project, rerunners: race for the world, for ios and android devices, which was extremely well-received by both the gaming press and the gaming community. now, klang is working on its next project, seed, a simulation mmo utilizing spatialos technology. ### Koji - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/koji - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Interactive content creation ### Kolex - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/kolex - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Platform for digital and physical collectibles in e-sports and traditional sports ### KukuFM - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/kukufm - Profile:(Asia · Applied Game Mechanics · Series C+) - Description: Mobile-first content platform offering subscription-based audio and video content across major Indian languages, with deep engagement and a scaled paying user base. ### Legacy Labs - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/legacy-labs - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Legacy Labs is a player-first game studio founded by industry veterans Lincoln Hamilton, co-founder of Blue Mammoth Games/Brawlhalla, and Mike Masland, formerly of Prime Video and Meta, focused on building polished online multiplayer games. Its current title, Backdraft, is a roguelike deckbuilder where each run pairs a hero with a companion/minion, combining elemental card pools, shop-based drafting, artifacts, upgrades, and tactical battles into a repeatable “shop, fight, repeat” loop. In short: Legacy Labs is building approachable, replayable multiplayer-first strategy games, with Backdraft as its flagship card-battler IP. ### Lila Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/lila-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Games studio creating a new FPS subgenre for mobile with social features ### Literal - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/literal - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Seed) - Description: Social Digital Reading Platform making the world's literature accesible for Millenials and GenZ consumers ### LIV - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/liv - Profile:(North America · Platform · Series A) - Description: Software tool for users and creators to capture their VR/AR gamplay and steam it to an audience ### Loftia - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/loftia - Profile:(Oceania · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: crossplatform cozy game meant to bring people together in a Solarpunk world ### Loot Labs - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/loot-labs - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Seed) - Description: Loot Labs is based out of seattle, backed by bitkraft, with leadership from microsoft, nasa, boeing, lucas arts, twitch, and 2k. our product, boxed.gg, is the ultimate collectibles experience, empowering collectors and trading card players with a fun and convenient way to enrich their hobby. today, fans of pokémon, and magic: the gathering can unbox rare trading cards, then have them shipped straight to their home with none of the fuss or bulk. in the near future, this novel experience will expand into digital gaming items and cosmetics with games like counter-strike, rust, and more. transparency is at the forefront of what we do, through a provably fair system, clear drop table, easy to understand spice meter and open communication with our community. learn more about boxed.gg and sign-up for free today! ### Lost Lake Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/lost-lake-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Game studio developing turn-based cross-platform shooter ### Luda - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/luda - Profile:(North America · Seed) - Description: ML-enabled game loop modding platform ### Luxon - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/luxon - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 1 - Series A) - Description: Investing in crypto gaming subsidiary of major Asian internet conglomerate with a successful mobile-focused gaming business ### Magicave - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/magicave - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Magicave is a UK-based remote game studio building digital hobby games that combine puzzle, RPG, collectible, and AI-driven storytelling mechanics. Its current products include Mindset Go!, a mobile/web puzzle game, and Beneath The Six, a turn-based roguelike built around collectible digital dice, procedural characters/worlds, and an AI narrator developed with ElevenLabs and actor Tom Canton. The company’s broader vision is to create a new category of “digital hobbies” inspired by tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, where players collect, create, customize, and explore persistent game worlds shaped by procedural generation, digital ownership, and community participation. ### Manticore Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/manticore-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series B) - Description: Platform for quick creation of UGC Games ### MatchboxDAO - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/matchboxdao - Profile:(North America · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: MatchboxDAO is an ecosystem DAO focused on supporting and accelerating fully on-chain games through developer education, hackathons, incubation, community programming, and game-related infrastructure. Its activities include teaching technical skills to developers, running on-chain gaming hackathons, operating Matchbox Arena / 0xTitans for tournaments and game entertainment, and supporting a portfolio of on-chain gaming projects such as Cartridge, Citadel, Mithraeum, Metafight, and others. In short: MatchboxDAO is a community and venture-building layer for the on-chain gaming ecosystem, helping developers, studios, and infrastructure projects build toward autonomous / blockchain-native games. ### Mavia - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/mavia - Profile:(Asia · Games/Content/IP · 1 - Series A) - Description: Heroes of Mavia is a mobile Web3 base-building strategy game from Skrice Studios where players build and defend bases, grow armies, attack rival bases, and earn in-game resources including Ruby, Gold, and Oil. The game combines familiar Clash-style mobile strategy loops with crypto-native features like the $MAVIA governance token, Ruby in-game currency, NFT marketplace, Ruby-to-$MAVIA exchange, DAO governance, and referral/creator programs. In short: Mavia is trying to bring Web3 mobile gaming to a mass-market audience through an accessible build-battle-trade strategy game with tokenized resources and digital asset ownership. ### Metatheory - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/metatheory - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Metatheory is a technology-driven entertainment studio founded by Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, focused on building Web3 games, virtual worlds, and cross-media story franchises. Its flagship IP is DuskBreakers, a sci-fi saga spanning games, NFTs, video, and other media formats, with the current game positioned as a free-to-play roguelite shooter built around fast action, collectibility, and competitive leaderboards. In short: Metatheory is trying to build Web3-native entertainment IP that starts with games but can expand across broader interactive media, community, and franchise storytelling. ### Methodical Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/methodical-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Game studio aiming to build Open World Survival Scavenging and Extraction Multiplayer PvPvE games ### Mira - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/mira - Profile:(Asia · Platform · Seed) - Description: Mira Network is building a decentralized verification layer for AI, designed to make model outputs and agent actions more reliable before they are used in production workflows. The network breaks complex AI-generated content into independently verifiable claims, routes those claims through distributed verifier models, and uses cryptographic/economic incentives to produce attestations around whether an output is valid. The broader positioning is a “trust layer” for autonomous AI: infrastructure that helps developers and enterprises reduce hallucinations, bias, and single-model failure risk when deploying AI systems in higher-stakes environments. ### Mirado (FKA Lolli Inc) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/mirado-fka-lolli-inc - Profile:(North America · Platform · Series B) - Description: mirado ai provides merchant funded rewards for marketers and publishers across our network of over 85 million cardholders. for marketers, whether you are a brand or agency, our technology uses powerful transaction data to reach and engage your customers at the peak of their interest, driving incremental sales online and in-store. for publishers, whether you are a card issuer, neobank, traditional bank, fintech app, reward platform, or point program, mirado can quickly and easily provide you with the ability to engage and retain your users through merchant funded offers. learn more and get in touch with us at mirado.ai. ### Network Next - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/network-next - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Private Internet Network ### New Tales - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/new-tales - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: A new game publisher with live games and AAA game operator experience allowing to maximize success at global scale. ### NFT Bank - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/nft-bank - Profile:(Asia · Platform · 1 - Series A) - Description: Contxts.ai (previously NFT Bank) is an applied research lab building automation and risk infrastructure for digital asset / DeFi financial flows. Its core work appears to focus on engineering “financial contexts” through autonomous agents that decompose complex DeFi vaults into underlying assets, assess risk across each layer, and run simulations around liquidation cascades, oracle failures, and collateral regime shifts. In short: Contxts.ai is building AI-driven DeFi intelligence infrastructure to make opaque vault strategies, yield sources, and on-chain financial risk easier to understand, monitor, and automate. ### Night Street Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/night-street-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Social PvP, celebrity-led game studio leveraging deep music tie-ins ### OFF - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/off - Profile:(Asia · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: Off-Live is an AI application studio building consumer/business tools around image generation, computer vision, LLMs, multilingual support, and domain-specific AI workflows. Its products include AiVee, which uses computer vision to turn images or screenshots into calendar events, and Pumky, an AI image-generation tool for creating and customizing visuals. In short: Off-Live is building a portfolio of lightweight AI-native apps that automate everyday creative and productivity workflows, backed by investors including BITKRAFT, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Hashed, Samsung Next, and others. ### Ola.GG - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ola-gg - Profile:(North America · 0 - Seed) - Description: Ola GG is a LATAM-focused Web3 gaming community and discovery platform that helps players find games, participate in quests, tournaments, events, creator-led content, and reward programs, while helping game studios reach and onboard Hispanic/Latin American gamers. The company originally emerged around play-to-earn / guild-style gaming, including education, scholarships, and Web3 onboarding, but now positions more broadly as the largest gaming community in LATAM with a game catalog, creator network, social distribution, IRL events, and user-acquisition support for game partners. In short: Ola GG is a regional gaming community and growth platform that connects games with LATAM players through content, quests, tournaments, education, and rewards. ### OND Holding - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ond-holding - Profile:(Europe) - Description: Jens Hilgers FO Holding Company ### OpenBCI - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/openbci - Profile:(North America · Immersive Technology · Series A) - Description: Leading non-iknvasive BCI, aims to capture the market through a multimodal hardware advantage ### ORO - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/oro - Profile:(North America · Platform · Series A) - Description: ORO is a human-intelligence protocol that lets users contribute private, high-value data to AI systems while preserving privacy and earning rewards for their contributions. The product rewards users for completing data collection activities such as quests or linking social/health accounts, with ORO points determining future token rewards. Its technical approach uses privacy-preserving compute, including zkTLS, TEEs, anonymization, encryption, and on-chain validation/scoring, so AI models can benefit from user data without exposing or reselling the raw underlying information. The broader positioning is a data network for frontier AI: giving individuals control and compensation for the private data AI companies increasingly need as public training data becomes less sufficient. ### Outpost Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/outpost-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: blockchain-based virtual worlds for 3rd party competitive game integrations ### Party Icons - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/party-icons - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Party Icons is a Web3 game studio building a “party royale” ecosystem that combines extraction shooter mechanics, battle royale, casual party games, tournaments, and digital collectibles. Its current product is positioned around an AI-assisted extraction shooter experience, where players act as commanders making strategic decisions while AI agents execute battlefield combat, shifting the gameplay emphasis from twitch skill to information, timing, risk management, and extraction strategy. The broader vision is to create a metaverse-native theme park for multiplayer entertainment, with first-party game modes, customizable tournaments, user-generated content, and blockchain-enabled ownership/rewards layered into the player economy. ### Playable Worlds - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/playable-worlds - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: MMO Game, cross platform ### PlayBrain - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/playbrain - Profile:(Asia · Platform · Series A) - Description: Esports Production Studio ### Playmint - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/playmint - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Playmint is a UK-based onchain gaming studio focused on building fully onchain games, autonomous worlds, and supporting developer technology for decentralized game ecosystems. Its work includes The Crypt, described by Cartridge as the first fully onchain co-op multiplayer game, and Downstream, an autonomous world / UGC platform where players could permissionlessly extend the game itself; Playmint also developed Playerchains, a peer-to-peer consensus architecture for real-time multiplayer without centralized servers. In short: Playmint is a pioneer in fully onchain games and autonomous worlds, building both experimental game IP and the underlying infrastructure for persistent, player-owned, composable game worlds; Cartridge acquired the company in January 2026. ### Pocket Worlds - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/pocket-worlds - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: social-first game company targeting underserved female players ### Queens - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/queens - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: next-generation lifestyle organisation powered by female gamers ### Radian Arc - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/radian-arc - Profile:(Oceania · Platform · Series B) - Description: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company that provides Telcos with complete solutions for cloud gaming and AI services ### Raid Base - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/raid-base - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: "Specter" game will be an open-world, sandbox PVPvE exprience ### Ready Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ready-games - Profile:(North America · Platform · Series A) - Description: Casual Esports delivered through mobile app ### Redemption Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/redemption-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Web3 RPG game studio built by industry veterans ### Resolution Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/resolution-games - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · Series C+) - Description: major virtual reality (VR) game studio ### Return Entertainment - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/return-entertainment - Profile:(Europe · Platform · Seed) - Description: Extremely shareable, cloud-native games - setting the new standard in gameplay, UA and social interaction. ### Ribon - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ribon - Profile:(North America · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: Protocol to coordinate charitable donations across Web2 and Web3 leveraging donationation-virality, AGM and tokenomics to engage communities and catalyze additional donations inflow while reducing fundraising costs ### Roundhill Investments - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/roundhill-investments - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: roundhill investments is an sec-registered investment advisor focused on offering innovative etfs and structured public markets financial products. ### Ruckus Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/ruckus-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: A game studio aiming to create unaparalleled player experiences through style and interaction. The games are visually inviting with a recognizable style ### Sanctuary - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/sanctuary - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Seed) - Description: Gameified alternative spirituality app. Like Headspace or Talkspace ### Scriptic (ex Electric Noir) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/scriptic-ex-electric-noir - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: An IP-first interactive fiction platform, with a Bafta-winning owned and operated crime IP. ### Seeker Entertainment - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/seeker-entertainment - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: ex-Riot and Blizzard leaders building a new game studio focussed on co-op social play ### Series Entertainment (Series.ai) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/series-entertainment-series-ai - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Game studio developing industry-defining games leveraging AI-infused game development ### Sipher - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/sipher - Profile:(Asia · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Sipher Odyssey is a sci-fi fantasy multiplayer looter-shooter / action RPG from Ather Labs, set in the world of Sipheria and built around collectible animal-inspired heroes such as INU, NEKO, and BURU. Players assemble squads, fight through dungeons and bosses, customize characters with gear and card-like Augments, and participate in guilds and progression systems across a vibrant anime-style universe. In short: Sipher is a Web3-enabled action RPG IP combining fast mobile-friendly combat, collectible characters, social/guild systems, and digital ownership around a persistent sci-fi fantasy world. ### Sirius - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/sirius - Profile:(North America · Platform · ["Seed"]) - Description: Sirius is an AI-driven retention platform that integrates into subscription cancellation flows to reduce churn. By leveraging real-time data from sources like Stripe and Amplitude, the platform provides personalized retention offers, resulting in an average 20 percentage point retention lift for its 18 paying customers, including Promova and Headway. The company is raising a $5,000,000 seed round to scale its AI inference capabilities, expand into enterprise-grade subscription brands, and build a dedicated enterprise sales motion. With $3,200,000 in ARR, 75% month-over-month growth, and 196% net revenue retention, the company is demonstrating strong product-market fit and rapid adoption. ### Skarvo - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/skarvo - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Personalized social app that is moving away from mass social media and making it more intentional. ### SonicSVM (Mirror) - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/sonicsvm-mirror - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: Sonic SVM is a Solana-based infrastructure network from Mirror World focused on turning user attention and engagement into programmable onchain incentives. The platform helps developers and institutions capture offchain signals like views, clicks, social activity, wallet connections, staking, and transactions, then aggregate them into “Attention Scores” that can be used to distribute protocol-level rewards to apps, campaigns, and ecosystem participants. Sonic positions itself as an attention network for consumer crypto and gaming ecosystems, giving builders scalable Solana rails, analytics, incentive infrastructure, and open integrations to acquire users, measure engagement, and reinvest rewards back into growth. ### Spatial Inc. - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/spatial-inc - Profile:(North America · Immersive Technology · Seed) - Description: 3d audio soundscape solution ### Spectarium - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/spectarium - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Spectarium is a remote-first game studio building cross-platform action RPGs, with an experienced founding/team background spanning EA, Epic Games, Riot Games, Square Enix, and Plarium. Its flagship game, Myths, is a mobile/PC action RPG where players battle through dungeons, master abilities, loot and upgrade gear, and play solo or in up to four-person co-op against bosses; the company has also announced Mintarium, a platform for interactive card collections with dynamic collectibles, gacha-style loops, leaderboards, seasonal events, and on-chain rewards. In short: Spectarium is building frontier cross-platform RPG and collectible-game experiences that combine high-quality game development, AI-enabled personalization, and Web3/on-chain reward mechanics. ### Spruce Systems - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/spruce-systems - Profile:(North America · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: SpruceID builds digital identity and trust infrastructure for government services, helping agencies modernize resident identity, credentialing, verification, fraud prevention, and workflow automation. Its products span state-issued digital IDs, government wallets, identity gateways/SSO, document intake, form modernization, legacy system integration, privacy-preserving verification, and compliance tooling. In short: SpruceID is building the backend rails for secure, privacy-preserving digital government services — making it easier for agencies to verify users, reduce fraud, connect fragmented systems, and deliver faster public-service decisions. ### Starform - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/starform - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: realistic, cross-platform playable games with strong social mechanics ### StockGro - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/stockgro - Profile:(Asia · Applied Game Mechanics · Series A) - Description: StockGro is a leading social finance and education company based out of India. The company uses fantasy-style games, curated insights, monitored chat groups, and other analytical features to help users learn about markets and be better investors. ### Stoke Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/stoke-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: A game studio building upon World of Tanks premise, reinventing the game ### Strafe - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/strafe - Profile:(Europe · Platform · Seed) - Description: Companion App for Esports ### Superbloom Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/superbloom-games - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Seed) - Description: A table setting and hosting themed game to market with event planning and travel aspiration ### SuperVerse - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/superverse - Profile:(North America · Platform · 0 - Seed) - Description: Masters of Mayhem is a free-to-play social-deduction action game from Super Studios that blends Among Us-style betrayal with roguelite action, monster encounters, and colorful co-op chaos. Its main mode, Monster Lockdown, puts 4–15 players into abandoned facilities where they must work together to contain creatures while hidden impostors sabotage the team; the game also supports public/private lobbies, voice/text chat, open beta events, and a planned Steam release in July 2026. In short: Masters of Mayhem is building a party-friendly multiplayer game that combines social deduction, PvE action, roguelite abilities, and streamer-friendly mayhem into one accessible free-to-play experience. ### Tarta Games - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/tarta-games - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Pre-Seed) - Description: Tarta Labs is building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem that combines AI-native character technology with anime-style games and interactive entertainment. Its flagship game, Spot Zero, is a 3D anime action RPG set in a world where humans and yokai coexist, while its broader AI work includes Eimi, a multimodal emotional AI model designed to sense emotions across voice, face, and gaze in real time. The company is positioning itself at the intersection of anime gaming, companion AI, and emotionally responsive character IP, using games as both a distribution channel and a live environment for more expressive AI-driven characters. ### Tatsu Works - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/tatsu-works - Profile:(Asia · Games/Content/IP · 0 - Seed) - Description: Tatsu Works is a Singapore-based game and community platform company best known for Tatsu.GG, a Discord community-management and engagement platform used by over 1.4 million Discord communities. The company is now expanding that foundation into Tatsumeeko, a Discord- and mobile-based JRPG designed around community-driven gameplay, social progression, and storytelling, with a team of 40+ veterans from Square Enix, Gumi, Koei Tecmo, and Tencent. In short: Tatsu Works is turning its large Discord community infrastructure footprint into a social JRPG ecosystem that blends chat-native community engagement with mobile game progression and anime/JRPG-style worldbuilding. ### The Snow League - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/the-snow-league - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Series A) - Description: Leading emerging global winter sports league founded by Shaun White, tapping an affluent, high-participation audience with engaging formats. ### Theorycraft - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/theorycraft - Profile:(North America · Games/Content/IP · Series A) - Description: cross-platform-native game at the interface of social and mastery ### Tier One - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/tier-one - Profile:(Asia · Platform · 1 - Series A) - Description: Tier One Entertainment is a venture-backed esports, gaming, and entertainment company that develops, manages, and commercializes top-tier creators, streamers, and competitive gaming talent across Southeast Asia and global markets. The company is best known as the home of Blacklist International, one of the region’s most successful esports organizations, and combines talent management, content production, brand partnerships, and fan-community building into a broader gaming entertainment platform. In short: Tier One is building a next-generation gaming media company around elite creators, esports IP, and culturally influential gaming communities. ### Tilt5 - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/tilt5 - Profile:(North America · Series A) - Description: in-home AR game entertainment ### TMRW Sillicon - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/tmrw-sillicon - Profile:(Europe · Immersive Technology · Series A) - Description: Next-generation chip company , enabling light based signal processing on nanoscale through their plasmonics based transistor platform. ### Trioscope - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/trioscope - Profile:(North America · Seed) - Description: Hybrid entertainment studio + tech company, pioneering a new genre of content ### Tripp - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/tripp - Profile:(North America · Applied Game Mechanics · Series A) - Description: TRIPP offers new and proven meditation techniques in VR and AR, combined with flow-inducing gameplay, binaural audio, and breath visualization ### TypeX - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/typex - Profile:(Asia) - Description: TypeX is building a crypto and AI-native mobile keyboard on Solana that turns everyday typing into an engagement and rewards surface. The product appears to sit directly inside the user’s keyboard experience, creating a lightweight consumer crypto wedge around messaging, social activity, and “type-to-earn” mechanics rather than asking users to open a standalone app. TypeX is positioning itself as a distribution layer for crypto-native attention, rewards, and consumer engagement embedded into a behavior users already perform constantly: typing. ### Verisoul - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/verisoul - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Verisoul is the ultimate platform for stopping fake accounts. from multi-accounting detection and ai fraud decisioning to bot & deepfake prevention, verisoul is the all-in-one solution designed to automate fake account defense and help you grow faster and healthier. stay one step ahead of fraud with verisoul. businesses that switch to verisoul replace an average of 4 other vendors, spend 32% less, and detect >95% fake/bot accounts. it's why customers call us "the holy grail" of fraud prevention. ### Vermut - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/vermut - Profile:(North America · Seed) - Description: Platform that facilitates experiences for seniors within their locality. ### Voicemod - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/voicemod - Profile:(Europe · Platform · Series A) - Description: Voice transformation software ### Volley - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/volley - Profile:(North America · Series B) - Description: Dominant multiplatform voice controlled entertainment company ### Waywise - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/waywise - Profile:(North America · Platform · Seed) - Description: Real-time audience understanding engine for your game studio, spanning design, development, community formation, marketing & live ops, moving into AI game design chat bot space ### WeLevel - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/welevel - Profile:(Europe · Games/Content/IP · Seed) - Description: Redefining the survival, open-world and city-building genres with a cutting-edge modular game design, powered by AI-driven dynamic storytelling and gameplay experiences. ### XSET, INC. - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/xset-inc - Profile:(North America · Platform) - Description: next-generation lifestyle organisation ### Yield Guild - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/portfolio/yield-guild - Profile:(Asia · 1 - Series A) - Description: YGG Play is the publishing arm of Yield Guild Games, focused on bringing casual crypto games to market by pairing studios with YGG’s Web3 gaming community, go-to-market playbooks, token launch support, creator network, and “degen” engagement mechanics. Its portfolio includes first-party games like LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper, second-party titles like Giga Chat Bat, and third-party ecosystem games such as Gigaverse, Roach Race, and Proof of Play. In short: YGG Play is building a crypto-native casual games publisher that helps studios turn simple, social, reward-driven games into durable Web3 communities and monetizable player networks. ## People (26 listed) ### Malte Barth — Partner (Equity Investments) - Location: Cascais, Portugal - Bio: Malte has been a leader, investor, and operator in the media, games, and esports spaces for over 20 years. Wherever he is at this exact moment, he'd probably rather be kitesurfing. ### Jasper Brand — Partner (Equity Investments) - Location: Los Angeles, United States - Bio: Jasper was part of BITKRAFT's founding team, and currently focuses on identifying and evaluating new investment opportunities. High probability he could beat you in golf. ### Philip Camilleri — CTO (Information Technology) - Location: Miami, United States - Bio: Philip is a founder and hands-on techie who cofounded SmartAsset (YC S12), serving as CTO and raising over $150 million to build financial tools for consumers in the USA. He currently heads up Tech at BITKRAFT. ### Everett Chiang — Analyst (Crypto Investments) - Location: New York, United States - Bio: Everett is a former Top 25 North American Valorant player and semi pro Fortnite player. Enough said. ### Antonio de la Esperanza — VP, Legal (Operations) - Location: Madrid, Spain - Bio: Antonio is BITKRAFT's legal counsel and brings with him extensive experience in cross-border debt and venture financing. A bad but enthusiastic gamer and golfer. ### Adrian Galea — VP, Finance (Operations) - Location: Madrid, Spain - Bio: Adrian is a finance and legal services professional experienced in regulatory and taxation matters, and is responsible for tracking the portfolio. Best accent at BITKRAFT. ### Martin Garcia — General Partner / CFO (Operations) - Bio: Responsible for all operational and financial activities, Martin leverages experience from work across almost 20 countries. He is a proud graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. ### Becky Harold — Operations Manager (Operations) - Location: Madrid, Spain - Bio: Becky supports the operations team across all of its core functions, driving many of the day-to-day priorities of the firm. Low-key is the most interesting person at BITKRAFT. ### Jens Hilgers — Founding General Partner (General Partner) - Location: Berlin, Germany - Bio: Jens started BITKRAFT in 2015 after the acquisition of esports juggernaut ESL, which he founded in 2000. Playing Minecraft with his two sons is where he’s happiest. ### Sven Hoffmann — Head of Events (Events) - Location: Cologne, Germany - Bio: A veteran of global Esports events production having spent nearly 20 years at ESL. Tattoo game is A+. ### Mei Homs — HR Manager (People Operations) - Location: Sabadell, Spain - Bio: With a background in operations at early-stage US startups, Mei now leads People Operations. As a gymnast enthusiast she balances people, processes, and culture with precision. ### Jonathan Huang — Partner (Equity Investments) - Location: Sembawang, Singapore - Bio: Jonathan is responsible for supporting the entire investment process from origination to evaluation, structuring, and closing within the Asia region. Secretly part Witcher. ### Spencer Ma — Intern (Equity Investments) - Location: Stanford, United States - Bio: Spencer is an MBA candidate at Stanford University having wet his toes prior at our portfolio company Carry1st and NBC. Investor by day, Wukong obsessed by night. ### Ben Naylor — AI Engineer (Equity Investments) - Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Bio: A rare blend of technical and creative, a former sound engineer and software developer turned analyst, Ben informs deal decisions and is now applying his investor and technical skills within the developer team. Probably the nicest person here. ### Carlos Pereira — General Partner (Crypto Investments) - Location: New York, United States - Bio: Leading BITKRAFT's crypto strategy, Carlos is an experienced investor with a background in gaming, media, and interactive entertainment. He believes Call of Duty is the new golf. ### Elena Provine — Investor Relations Manager (Investor Relations) - Location: Austin, United States - Bio: Elena’s scaled disruptive tech across gaming, web3, and media—now focused on investor partnerships that outlast cycles (and a Clash Royale habit that never will). ### Scott Rupp — Founding General Partner (Sports Investments) - Location: Denver, United States - Bio: Interactive entertainment entrepreneur, investor, and operating executive with over 20 years experience. He'd like you to know the Nuggets are NBA champions. ### Shagun Shah — Associate (Equity Investments) - Location: Mumbai, India - Bio: Armed with a one-two combo of game development and venture capital experience, Shagun looks for the next big thing in gaming and interactive media in India. ### Ariel Shimoni — Head of Growth & Origination (User Acquisition Team) - Location: New York, United States - Bio: Ariel leads growth and origination for our Growth Fund, he brings years of private credit and mobile growth expertise. Probably make the best Schnitzel you've ever had. ### Oliver Stad — Finance Manager (Operations) - Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina - Bio: Oliver is responsible for tracking financials and key performance metrics in service of potential follow-on rounds and portfolio allocation. Techno-optimist and skilled pianist. ### Justin Swart — Partner (Crypto Investments) - Location: Cape Town, South Africa - Bio: Justin comes from a background in IB and VC, and carries a deep passion for being able to work with entrepreneurs in pursuit of their dreams. His grey hair is not Witcher cosplay. ### Anuj Tandon — Partner (Equity Investments) - Location: Pune, India - Bio: Anuj leads investments and strategy in India and MENA. Lifelong Manchester United optimist, Anuj dreams of conquering FIFA like a Total War campaign. ### Dani Tran — Principal (Equity Investments) - Location: Denver, United States - Bio: Focused on backing visionary founders innovating in consumer tech. Lifelong Pokémon trainer and frisbee player. ### Jamie Wallace — Associate (Equity Investments) - Location: London, United Kingdom - Bio: A deep believer in the power of blockchain, Jamie is focused on identifying and evaluating new investment opportunities in Web3 / crypto. Resident Canadian. Literal Olympian. ### Lauren Wilhelm — VP, Finance | Controller (Operations) - Location: Tabernacle, United States - Bio: Lauren is a CPA supporting all internal accounting operations. Horseback rider extraordinaire. ### Jerry Ye — Partner (User Acquisition Team) - Location: Burlingame, United States - Bio: Jerry Ye leads BITKRAFT’s UA financing, bringing adtech expertise and VC experience from Lightspeed and SignalFire. His favorite pastime is trolling his two boys. ## Insights (46 most recent) ### Industrial Policy and the Next Chip Era (2026-07-08) — by Dani Tran - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/industrial-policy-and-the-next-chip-era - Summary: Industrial policy is back. More than $190B committed globally to rebuild chip capacity, the largest coordinated intervention in advanced economies since Apollo. But policy doesn't create innovation — it creates seams. A look at where the interesting hardware companies actually get built, and why the scaling-capital gap is the more important problem. ### From Owners to Everyone (2026-07-02) — by Dani Tran - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/from-owners-to-everyone-2 - Summary: How Value Is Being Redistributed Across the Sports Economy- For most of modern sports history, the answer to "who wins when sports wins?" was simple. Owners won. That structure is unwinding — downward to athletes, outward to fans, outward to leagues the media machine hasn't pointed at yet. And it's creating an infrastructure gap worth paying attention to. ### World Models: Dreams Turned Into Reality (2026-06-03) — by Sven Hoffmann - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/article-world-models-dreams-turned-into-reality - Summary: World models — AI systems that simulate dynamic environments — have attracted over $10 billion in funding, almost entirely for robotics and enterprise. In this piece, BITKRAFT's Spencer Ma argues the consumer opportunity is real but misread: the first widely-used application will be a content creation tool, not a game. ### The Future of Consumer Apps 2026 (2026-03-24) — by Dani Tran - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/the-future-of-consumer-apps-2026 - Summary: How AI + Game-Design Principles Are Reshaping Every Category ### Smarter Models Won't Save You (2026-02-12) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/smarter-models-won-t-save-you - Summary: How Worlds Shape Intelligence ### Why We Invested in Donut (2025-12-09) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-donut - Summary: The Agentic Browser for the Financial Internet ### Why We Invested in Cambria Again (2025-12-03) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-cambria - Summary: Doubling Down on the High-Stakes Future of Onchain MMOs ### REPORT: India's Gaming and Interactive Media Market Opportunity (2025-10-30) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-india-report ### Why We Invested in Loftia (2025-09-11) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-qloud-games - Summary: Bridging the gap between cozy and social ### Why We Invested in Appcharge Again (2025-09-09) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-appcharge - Summary: Empowering developers to take back control ### India Levels Up (2025-09-03) — by Shagun Shah - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/india-levels-up-thesis - Summary: Interactive Media and the Future of Play ### Why We Invested in GameRamp (2025-08-14) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-gameramp - Summary: Unlocking the Future of Mobile Game Publishing ### BITKRAFT Founder Spotlight: Series Entertainment (2025-08-12) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-founder-spotlight-series-entertainment ### Why We Invested in Global Worldwide (2025-07-31) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-global-worldwide - Summary: Where battle maps meet soap operas–and we're here for it ### Why We Invested in Circle Games (2025-07-22) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-circle-games - Summary: Investing in Turkey’s next mobile gaming champion ### Why We Invested in Distinct Possibility Studios (2025-07-09) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/why-we-invested-in-distinct-possibility-studios - Summary: Backing the next evolution of FPS with the legends who helped define it ### BITKRAFT FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT: LOOT LABS (2025-07-01) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-founder-spotlight-loot-labs ### BITKRAFT Ventures Doubles Down on its Web3 Strategy with Key Leadership Promotions and New Venture Partner (2025-05-28) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/doubling-down-on-web3-strategy-with-key-leadership ### Agents of Change: The AI Saga Revolutionizing Gaming Worlds (2025-01-23) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/agents-of-change-the-ai-saga-revolutionizing-gaming-worlds ### Reimagining Engagement: The Evolution from Gamification to Applied Game Mechanics (2025-01-16) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/reimagining-engagement-the-evolution-from-gamification-to-applied-game-mechanics ### Indian Games Industry Veteran Anuj Tandon joins BITKRAFT Ventures (2024-12-10) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/india-games-industry-veteran-anuj-tandon-joins-bitkraft-ventures ### Announcing a Minority Investment from Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital Platform (2024-12-05) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-ventures-secures-a-minority-investment-from-blue-owl-s-gp-strategic-capi ### BITKRAFT FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT: SUPERBLOOM (2024-10-24) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-founder-spotlight-superbloom ### BITKRAFT Founder Spotlight: David Amor of Playmint (2024-08-27) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-founder-spotlight-david-amor-of-playmint ### From Farmville to Farcaster: How Decentralization is Shaping Social Gaming (2024-07-16) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/from-farmville-to-farcaster-how-decentralization-is-shaping-social-gaming ### BITKRAFT Founder Spotlight: New Tales (2024-06-19) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/founder-spotlight-newtales ### Is Mixed Reality Signaling a Platform Shift? (2024-06-12) — by Jonathan Huang - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/is-mixed-reality-signaling-a-platform-shift ### Exploring the Future of Gaming: The Rise of Fully Onchain Games (2024-06-05) — by Nico Vereecke - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/fully-onchain-games-thesis ### The Creator Economy & 2nd Renaissance (2024-05-24) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/the-creator-economy-2nd-renaissance ### Apple Vision Pro and Beyond: Unveiling Investment Horizons in the XR Revolution (2024-04-11) — by Stephanie Llamas - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/apple-vision-pro-and-beyond-unveiling-investment-horizons-in-the-xr-revolution ### Dungeons and Dojos: Exploring Onchain Game Development with MUD and Dojo (2024-02-06) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/dungeons-and-dojos-exploring-onchain-game-development-with-mud-and-dojo ### BITKRAFT: The Silk Road of Asia Gaming (2024-01-11) — by Jonathan Huang - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-the-silk-road-of-asia-gaming ### The State of Web3 Game Developer Tooling (2023-07-17) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/the-state-of-web3-game-developer-tooling ### How Blockchain Gaming Founders Should Think About User Acquisition (2023-05-24) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/how-blockchain-gaming-founders-should-think-about-user-acquisition - Summary: Though the rise of Web3 and Blockchain technologies has created many opportunities for new approaches to game design, games development, and digital asset ownership, when it comes to user acquisition (UA) the fundamental problem to be solved remains unchanged: maximizing player lifetime value (LTV) while minimizing customer acquisition costs (CAC). ### The zkEVM – The Next Frontier of Web3 Gaming (2023-04-01) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/the-zkevm-the-next-frontier-of-web3-gaming - Summary: Ethereum currently has the strongest network effects of any smart contract layer 1 blockchain. Relative to other blockchain ecosystems, Ethereum has more developers, tooling and infrastructure. Despite its limitations, it continues to be a popular choice for founders looking to build games, NFTs, and Metaverse dapps. If these are going to become an integral part of our lives, the underlying infrastructure has to be extremely secure, resilient and resistant to bad actors. ### Moving On Up: Exploring the Move Smart Contract Language (2023-03-24) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/moving-on-up-exploring-the-move-smart-contract-language - Summary: The Move Whitepaper was first published in 2018 at Facebook, as part of the Diem project. It laid out a novel approach for securely creating digital assets centered around native scarcity and access control. Its semantics are inspired by Rust, and it aims to address the issues and short-comings the designers identified in the available languages at the time (both smart contract specific and general purpose). This article will explore some of Moves features, components and tools, how they compare with existing smart contract languages, and what this new ecosystem could mean for the Web3 gaming space. ### Pursuing the Holy Grail of Web3 Game Interoperability (2023-03-21) — by Ben Naylor - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/pursuing-the-holy-grail-of-web3-game-interoperability - Summary: Interoperability is a bit of a buzz word in Web3 circles, but what is its definition in practice, its practical applications, and what are Web3 builders leveraging it to achieve? Interoperability can have different meanings depending on the context. For instance, in the traditional gaming space, games can be interoperable across platforms, e.g., launching on Xbox, Playstation and PC. Within the Web3 space, there exists the notion of cross-chain interoperability, which allows assets to traverse multiple different blockchains, usually via bridge contracts. Another type of interoperability unique to Web3 is that of cross-application interoperable or portable game assets. The underlying substrate that is the blockchain in theory allows assets (NFTs or fungible tokens) to have utility in any of the applications built on top of it. Many Web3 gamers envision being able to take their in-game characters/items earned or crafted in one game and use them in another game. ### Is VR making a comeback again? Spoiler: It never left (2023-03-20) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/is-vr-making-a-comeback-again-spoiler-it-never-left - Summary: There has been no shortage of VR news of late – Meta announced Quest Pro; Bytedance launched Pico 4, pricing it to compete with Quest 2; Sony is expecting to launch 2 million PSVR2 units on 22 Feb 2023; Apple is reportedly developing three headsets to be announced in 2023 (although Apple VR rumors have been around since 2014); On the AR front, Microsoft’s Hololens and Magic Leap have also seen new releases this year. ### Bringing Your Whole Selves Online: The Present and Future of Avatars (2023-03-17) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bringing-your-whole-selves-online-the-present-and-future-of-avatars - Summary: Why Avatars Matter. What do you look like on the internet? Answering this simple question is trickier than it may seem. That’s because your digital identity is most likely split between different places — each of them, its own world, with distinct rules and limited possibilities when it comes to self-representation. Technical constraints aside, how you present yourself to the world also depends on who you’re talking to. LinkedIn you might understandably look more serious than Instagram you, donning formal attire instead of a boxy T-shirt: to each social graph, a certain facet of your personality. ### BITKRAFT Summit 2022 (2023-03-16) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-summit-2022 - Summary: After an extended hiatus, the BITKRAFT annual summit returned September 19-20, 2022, with over 400 investors, entrepreneurs, strategic partners, and high-profile speakers convening at Chelsea Factory in New York City. ### A Lucid Look at The State of AR Technology (2023-03-15) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/a-lucid-look-at-the-state-of-ar-technology - Summary: In October last year, we shared our Perspectives on Extended Reality — an umbrella term by which we encompass Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality. Much has happened since then. From Apple reportedly working on an AR/VR “reality OS,” to Qualcomm introducing a wireless version of its Smart Viewer headset, to Google now testing prototypes in public, the AR race is officially on. This presents us with the perfect opportunity to follow up with a dedicated deep dive on the state of Augmented Reality (AR). ### Assessing Blockchain Gaming’s Environmental Impact — and What Can Be Done About It Today (2023-03-14) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/assessing-blockchain-gaming-s-environmental-impact-and-what-can-be-done-about-it - Summary: If you follow the crypto space even remotely, you may have seen one particular topic come up a lot in recent months: the environment. Though cryptocurrencies are no strangers to ecological controversy, the sudden rise of NFTs and the attempt of a number of gaming publishers to implement them inside their properties have brought new grist to the mill of the cryptosceptic crowd. ### BITKRAFT Green Initiative #008000 (2023-03-13) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/bitkraft-green-initiative-008000 - Summary: There is an increasing need for each of us to act more directly in accordance with the world we envision. It is not enough to merely hope that others will do the work we know is necessary to advance progress towards a better future.This is true certainly for each of us as individuals, but especially true for those who feel a sense of responsibility for embodying responsible entrepreneurship and for making an outsized impact, as we do at BITKRAFT. ### How AI is helping build, and humanize, virtual worlds (2023-03-10) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/how-ai-is-helping-build-and-humanize-virtual-worlds - Summary: Playing video games, it’s easy to forget how much calculation is actually running in the background to produce what you’re seeing. Everything from a game’s physics to its lighting and terrain is the result of some carefully programmed computation — gaming companies can be some of the most complex software companies out there. ### Infrastructure & the Future of a Decentralized Web (2023-03-09) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/infrastructure-the-future-of-a-decentralized-web - Summary: A few months ago, we wrote an Insights piece that explored how gaming could potentially drive greater adoption of decentralized blockchain technology. While it’s still early, signs suggest this thesis is playing out. According to DappRadar, blockchain gaming activity is accelerating and gaining a greater share of user activity across Web3 applications. ### Gamification is Dead. Long Live Applied Game Mechanics! (2021-04-27) — by Jens Hilgers - URL: https://www.bitkraft.vc/insights/gamification-is-dead-long-live-applied-game-mechanics - Summary: Have you ever wondered why riding your Peloton, learning a language on Duolingo, or trading stocks on Robinhood feels so intuitive and fun? All three (non-gaming) companies use game design principles and mechanics to not only disrupt their respective industries through more appealing value propositions and experiences for their users, but also through creating strong engagement loops... ## Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitkraftvc - X: https://twitter.com/BitkraftVC - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEmviINQC7iVSQK3i0hXPg