# Malte Barth

> Malte Barth is a seed investor at BITKRAFT Ventures (London) backing Gaming and Blockchain. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 82%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maltebarth/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mabarth
- Website: https://bitkraft.vc

Malte Barth is a seed investor at BITKRAFT Ventures in London focused on Gaming and Blockchain. Malte is a Founding Partner of BITKRAFT Esports Ventures based in London/Lisbon. Since 2014 he served as Head of Esports at Modern Times Group, which holds one of the largest Esports portfolios globally with leading brands like ESL, DreamHack, ESEA, and others. He holds Board Roles at ESL and DreamHack and serves as an Industrial Advisor toEQT, a leading global Private Equity, since 2010. Malte graduated in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from Nordakademie and is active as an entrepreneurial leader, investor and operator in the Media, Games and Esports space for over 20 years.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 12 | 43% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 21% |
| Video Games | 4 | 14% |
| Media and Entertainment | 4 | 14% |
| Apps | 3 | 11% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 61% |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 11% |
| Japan | 2 | 7% |
| Sweden | 2 | 7% |
| India | 1 | 4% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starform | Starform was started by industry veterans with the goal of changing the way people play games together. It puts together small, autonomous teams of talented game developers and provides them with the tools, infrastructure, and support to design and build games in partnership with players, enabling gamers to get state of the art graphics and qualityentertainment.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $6M |  | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Addressable | Addressable is an innovative end-to-end Web3 marketing solution. The company’s best-in-class SaaS platform provides Web3 marketing teams with a powerful platform to effectively target new audiences by matching blockchain activity with social profiles. Addressable is a trusted partner of leading Web3 companies including Polygon, Bancor, Immutable,and Kryptomon. Founded by data analytics veterans Tomer Sharoni, Tomer Shlomo and Dr. Asaf Nadler, Addressable has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures and Fabric Ventures. | $6M | Seed | Dec 21, 2023 |  |
| Baton Media | Baton Media creates an ecosystem of tools that increase transparency throughout the collaborative process, ensuring artists are accurately credited and compensated for their work. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Scriptic | Electric Noir Studios is an entertainment agency known for providing entertainment services for mobile devices. | $5.7M | Seed | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| HyperPlay | HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game. | $12M | Series A | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| Latent Technology | Latent Technology builds the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| Magicave | Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup. | $5.7M | Seed | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Tatsumeeko | Tatsumeeko is a Discord-first fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). | $7.6M | Seed | Jun 09, 2022 |  |
| TRIPP | TRIPP: Empowering You To Change The Way You FeelNamed the Best VR Meditation App of 2020 by Men’s Health and VR Fitness Insider, The Washington Post calls TRIPP “Meditation-meets-a-video-game-meets-a-Happy-Pill!”TRIPP is the award-winning XR platform designed to address mental and emotional well-being. Proven to drive deep engagement, TRIPPcreates advanced digital products that are based on scientific research and delivered through virtual reality, augmented reality, and mobile devices. TRIPP's platform is currently delivering wellness solutions into consumer households, Fortune 1000 companies and hospitals/clinics worldwide. | $11.2M | Series A | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| 555 Comic | 555 Comic brings characters and their stories to life on Twitter and Instagram. Stories are written through the use of GIFs to express emotions. Each character in a story has their own individual Twitter account. The stories also contain clues that can be added in the blogs and videos uploaded by various characters building engagement withaudiences in real-time. |  | Seed | May 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dune Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dune-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ethereal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethereal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Karatage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karatage) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sisu Game Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sisu-game-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BITKRAFT Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

5 contacts available at BITKRAFT Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Malte Barth invest in?

Malte Barth invests primarily in Gaming, Blockchain and Video Games startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Malte Barth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Malte Barth closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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