# Scott Hartsman

> Scott Hartsman is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Video Games and PC Games. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hartsman
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hartsman
- Website: https://x.com/hartsman

Scott Hartsman is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Video Games and PC Games. Leader with years of experience building, developing, and motivating teams to consistently produce high quality products on time. Passionate about products, customers, culture, and results. • Expert at massive online game launches and live operations • Specialist in leading studio and project turnarounds with repeated success • Extensive backgroundin massive online games, platforms, and consumer-facing tech as an executive and entrepreneur • Operational and strategic experience from inception through live operation at global scale • Partnership builder who successfully forges relationships with developers, publishers, and platforms across NA, EU, and Asia • Fluent in the technologies that drive interactive entertainment companies • Operator with significant Board, VC, and institutional investor experience. Equity capital, bank and venture debt • Frequent spokesperson with extensive press and media experience • Advisor to consumer facing startups across a variety of topics

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video Games | 2 | 67% |
| PC Games | 1 | 33% |
| Aerospace | 1 | 33% |
| Automotive | 1 | 33% |
| Online Games | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brain Jar Games | Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share. | $6.7M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Zibra AI | Zibra is building the AI-native infrastructure for spatial intelligence enabling real-time, scalable 3D data pipelines for AI training and edge inference. Our proprietary technology compresses complex 3D datasets by up to 97%, solving critical streaming and infrastructure bottlenecks across industries including robotics, autonomous vehicles,aerospace, digital twins, and climate modeling. | $1.2M | Convertible Note | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Zibra AI | Zibra is building the AI-native infrastructure for spatial intelligence enabling real-time, scalable 3D data pipelines for AI training and edge inference. Our proprietary technology compresses complex 3D datasets by up to 97%, solving critical streaming and infrastructure bottlenecks across industries including robotics, autonomous vehicles,aerospace, digital twins, and climate modeling. | $700K | Angel | Nov 01, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SID Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sid-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [All Turtles](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allturtles) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Network VC Syndicate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/network-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Network.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/network-vc-syndicate-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Transcend.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transcend-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Hartsman invest in?

Scott Hartsman invests primarily in Video Games, PC Games and Aerospace startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 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 Scott Hartsman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Hartsman closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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