# BITKRAFT Ventures

> BITKRAFT Ventures is a VC fund backing Gaming and Video Games. See 242 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 242
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last fund: Apr 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitkraft-holding
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bitkraftvc
- Website: https://www.bitkraft.vc

BITKRAFT Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Gaming and Video Games. BITKRAFT Ventures was founded in 2015 by german serial entrepreneur, Jens Hilgers. BITKRAFT’s team is located in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Madrid and Lisbon covering videogames and esports investments not only digitally but in the most relevant and busy metropoles for digital entertainment in the Western world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$13M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 65 | 27% |
| Video Games | 36 | 15% |
| Blockchain | 22 | 9% |
| Online Games | 21 | 9% |
| Software | 18 | 7% |

111 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 97 | 40% |
| Series A | 49 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 18 | 7% |
| Series B | 13 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 4% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 69 | 29% |
| Germany | 10 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 2% |
| India | 5 | 2% |
| Australia | 5 | 2% |

24 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jens Hilgers | Founding General Partner | 49 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jens-hilgers |
| Jonathan Huang | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-huang-4786 |
| Malte Barth | Founding Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/malte-barth |
| Scott Rupp | Founding General Partner | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-rupp |
| Benedikt Hübenthal | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benedikt-h%C3%BCbenthal-794c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hulp | Hulp provides a personal assistant service that helps manage household tasks, bookings, family coordination, and daily activities. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Acti | Acti is an "agentic" smartphone keyboard developed by TypeX Limited that turns any text field into an AI action layer. Unlike traditional AI keyboards that focus solely on predicting words, fixing grammar, or refining writing tone, Acti operates as an invisible agent capable of executing complex tasks and workflows across multipleapplications directly from your typing interface. | $5.3M | Seed | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Jin Universe Studios | Jin Universe Studios is a gaming studio that develops games for the Jin Universe IP. The company is creating the Jin Universe games, with their initial project being a role-playing game called "Aether Dawn" that features anime-inspired hack-and-slash elements. They focus on building durable intellectual property through immersive gamingexperiences. The studio's work centers on game development within the mobile gaming apps industry. |  | Seed | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Arya | Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship. | $17M | Grant | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Power Protocol | Power Protocol is an infrastructure layer that drives the single, cohesive blockchain entertainment ecosystem. | $3M | Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| TrustBridge.GG | The premier platform for competitive PlayStation gaming with secure escrow-based competitive gaming. Put your gaming skills to the test and earn real money on the most secure PlayStation competitive gaming platform. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| Verisoul | Verisoul provides an AI-driven identity verification and fraud-prevention platform designed to help online businesses distinguish real users from bots, fake accounts, and coordinated abuse. The company’s products analyze behavioral signals, device attributes, network patterns, and identity indicators to assess whether an account or transaction isoperated by a genuine human. Verisoul offers tools for user onboarding protection, account integrity monitoring, and ongoing risk assessment across sign-ups, logins, and in-app activity. Its platform supports use cases such as preventing fake account creation, detecting multi-accounting, reducing promotional abuse, and identifying automated or scripted behavior. Verisoul delivers these capabilities through APIs and dashboards that integrate into customer workflows and provide actionable risk scores and alerts. The service is used by digital platforms seeking to maintain trust, reduce fraud-related losses, and protect community quality without relying solely on traditional CAPTCHA or document-based verification methods. | $8.8M | Series A | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Donut | Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents. | $15M | Seed | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Kuku FM | Kuku FM is a podcast platform that is re-inventing the traditional radio by allowing listeners to easily discover new, emerging and diverse audio content, and engage with their favorite creators. With 700+ podcasts, Kuku FM has grown into a family of 350K+ happy listeners and 500+ creators in only 8 months. People lose countless hours to mundaneactivities such as commuting, chores and aimlessly staring at their phones. What if they could turn these little blocks of unallocated time into a mind-space well filled? These are moments of learning, joy, reflection and even memories. Their goal is to democratize audio content. By providing production, distribution and marketing support, they want to empower creators to monetize their content, grow their audience and connect with their fans through their platform. | $35M | Secondary Market | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Airoclip | Airoclip operates as an AI-powered gaming studio. | $2.7M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |

10 of 242 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does BITKRAFT Ventures invest in?

BITKRAFT Ventures invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 242 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BITKRAFT Ventures's check size?

BITKRAFT Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$13M at Seed and $4.2M–$28M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BITKRAFT Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact BITKRAFT Ventures?

Public channels for BITKRAFT Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at BITKRAFT Ventures?

The team at BITKRAFT Ventures includes Jens Hilgers (Founding General Partner), Jonathan Huang (Partner) and Malte Barth (Founding Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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