Top 30 eSports Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $300k–$65M |
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, Australia | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain | $2M–$40M |
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March Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics | $4M–$273M |
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LVP
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Finland | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Mobile | $1.3M–$17M |
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Investitionsbank Berlin
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Canada | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $19k–$2.3M |
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Carcharodon Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $274k–$3M |
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J Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.1M–$44M |
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Everblue Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, eSports | $2M–$30M |
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The Hive
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $663k–$190M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $5.4M–$180M |
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Pohlad Family investment group
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | SaaS, Sports, eSports | ||
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Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder
VC Fund
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1 | Poland, Germany, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $240k–$13M |
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Avala Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1M–$22M |
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Impulse VC
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Advertising, Software, E-Commerce | $450k–$6M |
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Myke Naef
Angel
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, SaaS, Sports | $10M–$20M |
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $5.2M–$255M |
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APX
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $55k–$15M |
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Go4it Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, France | Series A, Series C | Sports, Video, Mobile | $3.6M–$58M |
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Dreamcraft Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $200k–$4.4M |
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IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Grant | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $80k–$3M |
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Raine Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Gaming, Mobile, Internet | $2.3M–$62M |
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Dan Gilbert
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series B, Series A | Video, Sports, Content | $1.6M–$40M |
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Joseph Tsai
Angel
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1 | United States, China, Germany | Seed, Series A | Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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TRUST ESPORT
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany | Seed | Gaming, Mobile, eSports | $1M–$2.2M |
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Fertitta Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Sports, Fitness, Media and Entertainment | |
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Christian Edler
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $497k–$555M |
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Segnalita
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology | $9.3M–$20M |
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Sumit Gupta
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Argentina | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Gaming | $2M–$2M |
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Nuard Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Germany, United States | Seed | IaaS, Video, Fashion | $339k–$680k |
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YuChiang Cheng
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | eSports, Video Games, Gaming | $3.5M–$17M |
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DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 273
- Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8.5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Weezy — Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping. The application enables users to discover their favourite groceries, snacks, drinks, home essentials and OTC pharmaceuticals in one tap away. Users can easily browse the aisles from their home or office.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London,England.
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
- Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $4.2M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Studio 369 — METALCORE is a free-to-play, first-person/third-person multiplayer mechanized combat game powered by towering War Machines fighting for dominance in large-scale battles.
- Laguna Games — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
- Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $12M–$110M; Series C $27M–$273M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $650M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- Drop Fake — Drop Fake is here to start a new game. We are a remote-first games company founded in 2021. Our mission is to help you find your digital family. We are building a cross-platform strategy game that will be open and available to all.
- Nifty Games — Nifty Games is reimagining innovative, authentic and competitive game experiences for the massive global audience of passionate sports fans, from casual gamers to seasoned aficionados. We develop and publish quick-session, head-to-head games for mobile devices, in partnership with the world’s largest sports licenses and backed by a contingent ofthe industry’s most powerful investors.
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- VaultN — VaultN's smart distribution platform enables automated self-service distribution of game keys, digital assets, and more. Unlock efficiency, secure revenue, and scale with confidence.
- NAG Studios — NAG Studios is a Sweden-based gaming startup that gives competitive gaming and esports its Superbowl format. Founded by games industry veteran Peter Stahl (ex-DICE & Resolution Games) and esports expert Johan Skott (ex-Tobii, Survivors Esports, Co-Op.gg), NAG is dedicated to creating competitive games and streaming platforms for players,broadcasters, and spectating audiences, all with the community integrated into the team.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Storycraft — Storycraft is a mobile video game creation platform with AI-powered maps, characters, and gameplay.
Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) is the subsidy bank of the Federal Land of Berlin. With its newly orientated economic support and subsidy policy, it actively contributes towards developing Berlin as a business and industry location.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $598k–$2.3M; Grant $19k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
- CyberTide — CyberTide is an AI-based Data Leak Prevention Solution
- muffintech — Generative AI for the insurance industry. Unleash the full potential of your employees and offer your customers an unmatched user experience.
Carcharodon Capital provides seed financing for start-ups. The funds can also be provided during the foundation and serve the development and development of the company. The investment volume is between € 50,000 and € 200,000 per investment and can be provided in the form of equity, debt capital or as a hybrid (eg silent partner).
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $487k–$3M; Pre-Seed $274k–$549k
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LemonDocs — Skin cancer rates have doubled in recent years. The most common problem is that the cancer is not detected early enough to be treated. In the fight against skin cancer, LemonDocs uses artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and its own specialist clinics to provide direct, fast, and comprehensive care for patients, with a focus on early preventionand personalised treatment.
- Jupus — As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients.
- hitcap esports GmbH — League of Legends coaching service from verified Challenger players. VOD review, live games, and duo queue with a LoL coach who helps you improve fast.
The first check for foundational industries. We back the people building for healthcare, financial services, energy, and the infrastructure of everyday life.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$17M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.9M; Series A $6M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- SOC Prime — SOC Prime is the only Threat Detection Marketplace where researchers monetize their content to help security teams defend against attacks faster and more efficiently than ever. Powered by its Detection as Code platform, SOC Prime curates the most up-to-date Sigma-based threat detection content from over 300 researchers and natively delivers it viasubscription to 20+ SIEM and XDR platforms at more than 6,000 enterprises, governments and MDRs worldwide.
- Pillar —
Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $2M–$21M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VAULT — Flick is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of software development, android, iOS, and mobile applications. Flick draws an audience of sports fans who want to engage on a deeper level with their favorite sports influencers, teams, and leagues. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York.
- Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
- House of Blueberry — House of Blueberry is the leading digital fashion house in the metaverse. Since 2012, Blueberry has served hundreds of thousands of consumers and sold more than 20 million digital assets, making it the industry leader in this quickly expanding sector. Blueberry is actively bringing its community and brand to the biggest web 2.0 and 3.0 metaverseplatforms, where it is already present on a number of platforms.Blueberry was established in 2012 by Gizem Mishi McDuff in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
The Hive is a studio that incubates, funds and launches businesses that use large volumes of data for intelligent decision making. The Hive’s startups create applications that leverage data with one or many of the following characteristics: - Combining First Party, 3rd Party & Public Data - From different sources (unstructured/structured, streaming/stored) - Volume of data - New scale-out processing & storage infrastructures - Use of Search & Machine Learning ApproachesThe Hive also hosts events featuring thought leaders in the applications and technology of Big Data. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Areas-Big-Data-Think-Tank/Are you an entrepreneur seeking to disrupt a market? Contact us at startup@hivedata.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $700k–$7.4M; Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $663k–$190M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sonet.io — Sonet.io is built for IT leaders that want a great experience for their users, while enhancing security and observability. Save up to 10x on IT costs for remote users.
- Diskover Data — Diskover is a data management platform that unifies storage, cuts costs, boosts visibility, and delivers AI-ready datasets for analytics.
- dweva.com — System Two Security offers a platform that combines AI agents and assistants to support detection engineering teams in processing intelligence, creating new detections, and managing detection libraries. The system enables users to draft and refine detections based on threat intelligence and coverage gaps.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1594
- Round size: Series A $5.4M–$40M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $10M–$180M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
- Nevis — Nevis is the world's first AI-powered platform designed specifically for wealth management. It automates operational tasks that consume as much as 80% of a financial advisor's day, such as meeting preparation, document management, opening custodian accounts, and client onboarding. This allows advisors to focus more on deliveringpersonalized client service and growing their businesses.
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- Industry: SaaS, Sports, eSports
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bayes Holding — Dojo Madness develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. It offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis,gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. Dojo Madness offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. Christian Gruber, Jens Hilger, Markus Fuhrmann, and Mathias Kutzner founded Dojo Madness on December 29, 2014. It has its headquarters in Berlin in Germany.
Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder is a venture capital fund and venture builder investing in early-stage startups. We offer funding as well as support in strategy, technology, business development, and team building.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Poland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $240k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $250k–$764k; Series A $5.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BoxMarket — BoxMarket.eu - Online store with shipping packaging. We offer boxes, cardboard envelopes and book wrappers
- Innential — Innential builds AI Assistants to tech and support teams grow and operate. Learning Assistant - onboarding and training automation. Service Assistant - pre and after sales support automation.
- Multilango — Multilango is an operator of a learning platform designed to improve employees' language skills. The corporate platform provides learning in a variety of languages with a personalized teacher based on individual preferences, allowing clients to learn languages through self-paced videos.
Avala Capital invests in high-growth companies with ambitious goals and the talents to achieve them. The company partners with exceptional entrepreneurs capable of disrupting a market by creating major change in a way which can be sustained and scaled. Its focus is on Internet business models, such as cloud, mobile, and online marketplaces as wellas on businesses heavily benefiting from offline to online conversion.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volocopter — Volocopter is an urban air mobility service provider that develops battery-powered electric air taxis.It offers a holistic approach to the UAM market by developing a full ecosystem to connect all the vital parts to get the industry off the ground. This includes multipurpose aircraft (VoloCity and VoloDrone), physical and digital infrastructure(VoloPort and VoloIQ), as well as partnerships with global leaders in their respective fields. With VoloCity, the company is developing the fully electric vertical take-off and landing “eVTOL” aircraft in certification to transport passengers safely and quietly within cities. Volocopter leads and cooperates with partners in infrastructure, operations, and air traffic management to build the ecosystem necessary to ‘Bring Urban Air Mobility to Life’.Co-founders Stephan Wolf and Alexander Zosel established the company in Bruchsal, Baden-Wurttemberg in 2011.
- Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
- Talentspace — Talentspace is the hybrid & virtual career fair platform that brings real hiring results. Our event experience is the branding that employers need to attract talent.
Fund for technological internet companies
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- Industry: Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Russian Federation, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Series A $800k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
- Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
- Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.
Myke Naef
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- Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
- Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- Round size: Series A $5.2M–$50M; Series B $13M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $185M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Jabali — At Jabali, our mission is to democratize creation and bring innovation to video games. We are building an AI-native engine to empower visionaries, game designers and developers. Jabali will offer a comprehensive, easy-to-use, engine to create games and interactive experiences.
- Superpedestrian — Superpedestrian provides cities with the world's safest and most advanced small vehicle technologies. Download the Superpedestrian app to begin riding today.
- Urban Jungle — We're doing insurance differently, by shaking up a traditional industry. We make it clearer, easier and more affordable to insure the stuff you love.
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.3M; Series A $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $61M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- Spike Technologies — Spike is an API for all fitness and health data from wearables & loT devices designed for digital health app developer.
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
Go4it partners with entrepreneurs innovating in sports, digital media and well-being, to create an active and enjoyable world.
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- Industry: Sports, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $3.6M–$50M; Series C $54M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adventure — Adventure is platform for entrepreneurs and companies, that helps the company achieve more, faster and better.
- Fazenda Futuro — Fazenda Futuro is a food tech company that produces flat meat. It offers its first product, the Futuro Burger which is made of pea, soy, and chickpea. The company currently sells its products in approximately 2,000 places across Brazil, with a major presence in the south and southeast of the country, besides Brasilia and Salvador.
- Future Farm — Future Farm engages in the production and supply of plant-based protein that captures the taste and texture of real meat.
Seed-to-A engineers. We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $412k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Catchwise — Fyll kvota mer effektivt. Finn den riktige fisken, med mindre tid og diesel.
- Leadfamly — The gamification platform for marketers to create immersive brand experiences. Join hundreds of global brands making marketing playable >>
- GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $658k–$3M; Grant $80k–$165k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
- Flexvelop — Flexvelop combines financial technology with circular economy to add innovative values to the core function of equipment funding.Local vendors and online-shops integrate Flexvelop as a seamless embedded payment option. Business customers are now able to #flex new equipment per click right at the point of sale. Insurance is already covered, andour customers have now the weekly option, to buy- or return their equipment, easily. This enables a new world of worry-free and flexible business growth.We #flex business equipment from €300 up to €20.000 per item; e.g. coffee-machines, laptops, gym- or dental-equipment,... anything you need for your business.NEXT GENERATION PAYMENTS + Technological Innovation: fully automatic embedded payment option + Economical Innovation: optionality (rent/buy/return) + insurance included + Ecological Innovation: sustainability (contributing to a circular economy) = Enabling worry-free flexible business developmentForget renting. Forget leasing. Grow smart - flex it!
- eleQtron — eleQtron creates and operates quantum computers based on trapped ions, radio frequency control, and Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling (MAGIC). It also puts forward novel ideas for scalable quantum processors based on RF-controlled trapped ions. eleQtron will run MAGIC quantum computers and provide quantum computing performance on a subscriptionbasis.
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Browse database — It's Free!Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $10M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
- Whip Media — Discover how Whip Media is revolutionizing the business of content with AI-native solutions for smarter licensing.
- Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.
Dan Gilbert is the Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He previously worked at StockX as an Investor. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.
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- Industry: Video, Sports, Content
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $10M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
- 100 Thieves — 100 Thieves is the premier lifestyle brand and gaming organization. Find out more about 100 Thieves and shop the latest premium apparel drops at 100thieves.com.
- Doppler Labs — 2026's Top 5 Best Headphones Top Rated and Reviewed. Easily choose and compare the Best Headphones for you all in one place. (Fan Favorites)
Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School.
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- Industry: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cambium Carbon — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
- WNBA Enterprises — The official home of the Women's National Basketball Association. Keep up to date with news, scores, and standings for your favorite teams.
- Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.
Trust Esport is the name for investment funds for Esports and Gaming founded by Matthieu Dallon
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PatronGG — Own Patron.gg today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
- Supercosi — Video Game Development & Edition
Fertitta Capital Inc. is a principal investment firm specializing in fund of fund investments and direct investments. It invests in a throughout business' lifecycle and across the capital structure. The firm seeks to invest in consumer-facing companies in the technology, media, and entertainment sectors. It prefers to invest in the UnitedStates. The firm invests between $20 million and $75 million per position. The firm prefers to take minority or majority stakes in its portfolio companies. Fertitta Capital Inc. was founded on May 1, 2017 and is based in West Hollywood, California.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moonbug — Moonbug is a global entertainment company that creates and distributes inspiring and engaging stories to expand kids’ worlds and minds.Founded in 2018, with offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy andresilience to kids around the world.
- The Beachbody Company — BODi is your complete healthy lifestyle solution: workout & get real results, eat well without restrictive diets, & stay motivated with our proven programs.
- Bayes Holding — Dojo Madness develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. It offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis,gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. Dojo Madness offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. Christian Gruber, Jens Hilger, Markus Fuhrmann, and Mathias Kutzner founded Dojo Madness on December 29, 2014. It has its headquarters in Berlin in Germany.
Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $700k–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $497k–$11M; Series A $10M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
- Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Segnalita is very proud of working together with passionate entrepreneurs and promising companies. With a focus on the future and the ongoing expansion of their portfolio they are continuously looking for enthusiastic founders and their ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $9.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- klaep — klaep is an app-based social network for musicians and singers, in which every user can record, edit and publish their own musical ideas and collaborate time-shifted with other users worldwide in split-screen videos (ReJam). All published compositions can be viewed, commented on and rated, so that pure music listeners also enjoy added value.
- Prewave — Prewave and stems from five years of advanced machine learning research.
- Instagrid — Instagrid creates software-defined battery systems for advanced portable power supplies.
Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M
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- Industry: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, Germany, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ShareRoot — Creating value for businesses through social media and digital tools and optimising real-world evidence to advance technologies for life.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
- Experimental — Experimental is a game development studio producing blockchain-based games that are not only incredibly fun to play but also allow users to monetize their gaming experiences. The studio developed CryptoWars (https://cryptowars.jp), the first fully decentralized strategy game played by thousands of users around the globe.
Nuard Ventures invests in innovative early stage companies.
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- Industry: IaaS, Video, Fashion
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $339k–$680k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WARD — WARD is a fantasy sport game, where fans can watch their favourite eSports matches and predict what will happen in real time.WARD is a startup out of Berlin which has created a “pick and predict” real-time prediction smartphone game, where players can win real prizes. People love to watch e-sports. We believe on these occasions they still want tobe able to participate.However, until now no product has offered anything other than the ability to watch. There’s been no way for fans to spectate, participate, analyse and predict the outcomes of their favourite games.
- MVision AI — AI-powered solutions that automate repetitive tasks, enable efficient radiotherapy workflows, and promote consistency across clinical processes.
- Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
YuChiang Cheng is the Chief Product Officer of Zwift. YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs.
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
- VENN — VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names andcreators across industries.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
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