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Top 25 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 25 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Esports startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in May 2025

Investor	eSports Germany investments
DN Capital	5
March Capital	5
BITKRAFT Ventures	5
LVP	3
Carcharodon Capital	2
Investitionsbank Berlin	2
J Ventures	2
Everblue Management	2
The Hive	1
Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder	1
APX	1
Avala Capital	1
Go4it Capital	1
Dreamcraft Ventures	1
Impulse VC	1
Fertitta Capital	1
Nuard Ventures	1
Segnalita	1
TRUST ESPORT	1
IFB Innovationsstarter	1
Raine Ventures	1
Sony Innovation Fund	1
Kakao Ventures	1
Pohlad Family investment group	1
Sequoia Capital	1

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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).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Suki — Suki is an AI-powered voice assistant that lifts the administrative burden from clinicians, so they have time to focus on what matters - patient care.
Luminance — Luminance develops document analysis software to secure big data systems for multinational and governmental organizations. Its software provides overview of various companies and picks out warning signs without any instructions; and document clustering and filtering to enable users focus on eliminating administrative tasks. Luminance identifiesrisk clauses, data visualization, and anomaly detection, as well as reviews and enables users to allocate tasks and track the progress of their team; and manages numerous mergers, acquisitions, and financings. It also helps lawyers and legal teams to categorize, review, and analyze various documents and contracts in the data room. Emily Foges founded founded Luminance in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

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).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AskBrian — AskBrian created an AI assistant that empowers business professionals to focus on high-value work by taking care of tedious tasks for you. Meet Brian.
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 — hitcap esports is an online-based platform that connects esports gamers and fans.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Canada

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 — Conversational AI for the insurance industry. Unleash the full potential of your employees and offer your customers an unmatched user experience.

J Ventures is a venture capital firm. They move fast on decisions, are patient with growth timelines, and hustle to help entrepreneurs reach their goals.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, China

Portfolio highlights

Concentro — Concentro is the marketplace to connect renewable energy developers and investors to buy and sell manage clean energy tax credits.
Musubi — A revolutionary approach to content moderation, supercharging your team's capabilities with AI.
Systole Health — Join Systole Health and take control of your heart health. Our personalized group virtual care combines expert-led medical treatment with the power of community support.

Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Germany

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

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.
Geminus — Geminus.AI uniquely leverages AI embedded in physics to deliver next generation digital twins enabling self-optimized design and operational intelligence. The company is based in Palo Alto, California and venture funded by The Hive.
System Two Security — 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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Poland, Germany, United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Volocopter — Volocopter is here to change air transport and the aviation industry with the its all-electric air taxi. Discover it now!
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.

Go4it partners with entrepreneurs innovating in sports, digital media and well-being, to create an active and enjoyable world.

Investment focus

Sports, Digital Media, Food Processing
Series A, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Brazil, France

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Steerlab — Steerlab is an AI-first solution that automates your responses to RFPs and Security Questionnaires, elevates quality, and delivers insights on how to win.
Catchwise — Fyll kvota mer effektivt. Finn den riktige fisken, med mindre tid og diesel.
Telescope — A practical tool for managing sustainability risk in real estate

Fund for technological internet companies

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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 healhy 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.

Nuard Ventures invests in innovative early stage companies.

Investment focus

IaaS, Real Time, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, United States

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 — Combining human expertise with the power of AI for efficient and high-impact radiotherapy.
Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria

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.

Trust Esport is the name for investment funds for Esports and Gaming founded by Matthieu Dallon

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, eSports
Seed
France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PatronGG — PatronGG is a tech startup built by esports veterans with the goal of changing the way fans follow esports by providing them with a central place to track their favourite teams and players, take part in discussions & compete to be the #1 fan. Join our journey and build amazing fan experiences with us!Our first app “Fnatic Nation” was built asthe official fan app for Fnatic to help them grow, retain and monetize their fanbase. Now, we're scaling our mission across all teams by building one central app that unites all fans and teams in one place.
Supercosi — Video Game Development & Edition

The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

mo:re GmbH — Mo:re is building the new gold standard for organoid-based drug development by offering a lab platform that industrialises cell culture workflows.
Tomorrow — Tomorrow combines mobile banking with sustainability. Open your sustainable account in minutes & start protecting the climate right away.
Neuralfinity — Build Generative AI Models That Truly Deliver: Create datasets, train from scratch, and evaluate generative AI models like LLMs and VLMs.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
MusicInfra — Helping creators and copyright owners getting paid faster and more accurately than ever

Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
CamGraPhIC — Our platform supports the ever-increasing data traffic demand with high-performing and low-power consumption electro-optical engines.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense

Pohlad Family investment group

Investment focus

SaaS, Sports, eSports
Funding Round
Germany

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.

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Strava — Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help membersdiscover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.
Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.

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