BITKRAFT Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Jens Hilgers. It maintains a global footprint with teams across North America, Europe and beyond, including Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Madrid, Singapore, Barcelona, Chicago and Lisbon. The firm specializes in early‑stage investments at the intersection of interactive entertainment, AI, gaming, esports and immersive technologies, backing companies in information technology and related media that develop video games, immersive experiences and web3-enabled platforms. BITKRAFT operates as a global investment platform with a focus on entrepreneurs shaping digital entertainment and next‑generation interactive experiences.

NODWIN Gaming is a Gurugram-based esports and gaming company that develops and operates esports and gaming applications, including a dedicated esports platform, mobile games, and live events. It provides talent management, sponsorship, and brand integration services across its IP portfolio spanning esports, gaming, music, comedy, and other youth entertainment, enabling publishers, brands, and fans to engage through scalable experiences and monetization opportunities. The company focuses on creating and monetizing intellectual property and delivering content production, joint IP opportunities, and strategic partnerships to expand reach in global markets, with particular emphasis on emerging markets.

Play Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in gaming and consumer apps. It invests globally across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, backing gaming studios as well as consumer apps like Duolingo and Calm, and related B2B infrastructure and services. The firm emphasizes founder support through its network and industry expertise to accelerate growth and foster collaboration among portfolio companies. By combining strategic capital with hands-on guidance, Play Ventures aims to help entrepreneurs build leading gaming and mobile ecosystems worldwide.

Animoca Brands is a global developer, publisher, and platform provider in the Web3, metaverse, and blockchain gaming space. It leverages gamification and blockchain to create and publish mobile games and IP-based products, including titles tied to well-known brands, while enabling digital property rights through non-fungible and fungible tokens. The company operates a platform that allows intellectual property holders to issue assets, monetize rights, and grow fan communities within Web3 ecosystems. It also supports a venture arm that finances and mentors creators and early-stage projects in blockchain, gaming, and related technologies. With regional initiatives to advance Web3 strategies for Japanese IP holders, Animoca Brands pursues global expansion of digital ownership, transparency, and new business models across gaming and branded content.

Makers Fund is a global venture capital firm that backs early-stage companies in interactive entertainment, gaming, and related technology sectors. Based in San Francisco, with an additional office in Hong Kong, the firm focuses on seed to Series B investments across North America, Europe, and Asia. It supports founders with capital, strategic guidance, and access to a broad network of industry connections, helping startups navigate growth and emerging opportunities. The portfolio has included companies such as Cheer Games, Vento Games, Novig, and General Intuition, reflecting a commitment to fostering innovation and growth in the interactive entertainment ecosystem.

Courtside Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early-stage companies operating at the intersection of sports, technology, media, lifestyle, gaming, and esports. The firm leverages specialized industry networks and domain knowledge to provide ongoing strategic support across operations and partners closely with management on long-term growth. It is registered as an investment adviser.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm concentrates on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups and is stage-agnostic, investing across seed and Series A rounds. It seeks scalable companies with strong unit economics and potential to become market leaders, often co-investing with other global funds to broaden its impact. FJ Labs emphasizes rapid decision-making and leverages its broad network to support portfolio companies in fundraising and growth, helping startups scale across large markets and ecosystems.

Yield Guild Games is a decentralized autonomous organization that operates as a play-to-earn gaming guild and investor in non-fungible tokens used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization seeks to build the largest virtual world economy by aligning community-owned assets for maximum utility and sharing profits with token holders. It coordinates a global community of players to participate in NFT-based games, enabling members to earn rewards through play and to discover new titles. The group also maintains regional sub-DAOs, such as Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia, to support local activity and governance within its broader ecosystem.

Shima Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage blockchain, web3, and related technology companies, including gaming and information technology startups. The firm aims to support founders through the challenges of early-stage development, drawing on a team with diverse expertise in investment, gaming, marketing, talent acquisition, and platform development.

Hiro Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that invests in interactive entertainment and related technologies. The firm backs companies across the video games, esports, streaming and digital sports ecosystems, including front-end content creators and back-end game platforms, as well as metaverse and cloud-based technologies. It typically participates in post-seed to Series A and B rounds, with a geographic focus on the United Kingdom, Europe and North America. Its activities span PC and console games, mobile casual and hyper-casual titles, social mobile communities, game fintech and monetization innovations, and technology platforms such as AI, big data, wearables, augmented and virtual reality, streaming and cloud services. Hiro Capital emphasizes supporting firms that shape the future of gaming and digital sports, often leveraging an advisory board of industry leaders to accelerate growth.

Konvoy Ventures is a United States based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in gaming and related technology, including gaming platforms, esports, and interactive entertainment. Founded in 2017, the firm pursues a global investment footprint, backing startups across North America, Europe and other regions, and concentrates on companies at the frontier of gaming technology and adjacent software sectors.

Stadia Ventures is a Saint Louis, Missouri-based venture capital firm and sports- and esports-focused accelerator. Founded in 2015, it concentrates on startups in sports, esports, and related areas such as lifestyle and recreation, performance and wellness, fan engagement and experience, media and entertainment, esports, and sports betting. It operates a sports business accelerator that selects 4-6 startups twice a year, investing around 100,000 per company and guiding founders through a 14-week bootcamp with mentors and opportunities to connect with potential clients. Stadia Ventures has expanded its operations to Frisco, Texas, and has a portfolio of about 40 companies with several exits and ongoing fundraising by portfolio firms.

Sharp Alpha Advisors is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that concentrates on investments in sports, gaming, entertainment, media, and other consumer-facing sectors, including esports opportunities.

SucSEED Indovation is a Hyderabad-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that provides capital and support to early-stage deep tech startups. The firm backs tech-driven ventures addressing India’s large-scale needs with the potential to serve global emerging markets. Its investments span sectors including edtech, health tech, fintech, security and regulatory tech, enterprise software as a service, gaming, sports tech, and media tech, along with digital economy and emerging technologies. Through its funding and guidance, it aims to help startups scale and grow.

Acies Investments is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Manhattan Beach, California. It focuses on investing in sports wagering and sports technology, iGaming, and esports, targeting opportunities within these sectors.

SeventySix Capital is a Pennsylvania-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in sports technology, esports, sports betting, and other sports-consumer sectors, with additional activity in tech-enabled consumer markets. Founded in 1999, it targets entrepreneurs developing game-changing platforms in sports, health, and retail, and has established an Athlete Venture Group that enables professional athletes to invest in and collaborate with portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes connecting athletes, executives, and influencers with opportunities to support and scale sports tech startups.

Gaingels is a venture capital organization focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders and their allies. It invests across stages and industries, building a global portfolio of 130+ companies and deploying around $70 million in capital. Beyond funding, Gaingels helps portfolio companies recruit diverse C-suite and board talent and fosters a global community of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs working toward inclusive leadership and positive social change through business.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire. It connects accredited individual investors with startup deals and co-invests alongside established venture capital firms across multiple stages, from seed to growth. The firm provides access to diversified portfolios through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, supported by a large network of community members and individual investors. It invests across sectors and geographies, with a focus on transparency and due diligence in collaborative investments with leading firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. Alumni Ventures operates internationally with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo and has raised substantial capital to back founders with strategic capital and resources.

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the gaming industry. It invests across the broad gaming ecosystem, including content, software infrastructure, platforms, social experiences, and gaming-related web3 initiatives. Founded in 2019 and based in Santa Monica, California, the firm seeks opportunities across game developers, service providers, and related technologies that support gameplay, communities, and monetization.

LvlUp Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, founded in 2019. It invests from pre-seed through Series B and backs hundreds of startups annually across global innovation hubs. The firm is industry-agnostic and aims to unlock growth through an extended-team ecosystem, deep corporate partnerships, and a technology backbone that enables collaboration and opportunities across portfolio companies. With a global team of more than 2,500 core and extended members, LvlUp provides hands-on growth and fundraising support beyond capital, helping founders scale, access strategic resources, and accelerate product development and market entry.

Sfermion is a venture capital firm that invests in the metaverse and related digital assets. Founded in 2019 and based in Chicago, it backs technology companies leveraging Web3, artificial intelligence, and augmented/virtual reality. The firm concentrates on esoteric digital assets and ventures within the experiential internet, seeking opportunities where creation, connection, and competition converge in immersive digital experiences. Through its investments, Sfermion aims to support startups building platforms and applications that enable exploration, interaction, and value creation in metaverse ecosystems.

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm and the investment arm of GREE, operating through GREE VR Capital. It backs early-stage startups in gaming, entertainment, consumer technology, and related fields such as generative AI, blockchain, and creator economy, leveraging GREE’s experience in mobile gaming and digital media. The firm seeks global opportunities across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa to help scalable ventures grow within gaming, media, and technology sectors.

Trust Esport is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in esports technology and services across France and the European Union. It targets startups developing applications, platforms, marketplaces, accessories, environments, extensions, bots, mods, and other esports offerings, with seed and early-stage investments. Core themes include improving viewing experiences, monetizing audiences, and optimizing playing conditions within the esports ecosystem.

RightBridge Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2020. It concentrates investments in information technology, electronic sports and gaming within the digital entertainment sector.

Dreamcraft Ventures is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that invests in European tech-driven companies from pre-seed to Series A. The firm focuses on B2B, SaaS, and fintech sectors across the Nordics and Europe. Dreamcraft positions itself as venture engineers who support founders through engagements that go beyond traditional advice, aiming to accelerate growth by combining strategic guidance with hands-on collaboration.

FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. It partners with exceptional entrepreneurs building technology companies across enterprise and consumer sectors, primarily in the United States and beyond. The firm emphasizes a founder-first approach, providing more than capital by offering access to networks, customers, and top talent to accelerate growth. Through its active involvement and collaborative community, FirstMark supports portfolio companies as they scale. Notable investments include Pinterest, Shopify, DraftKings, Discord, Airbnb, Riot Games, InVision, and Synthesia, reflecting a track record in helping transformative companies reach broad markets.

aXiomatic is an esports and video gaming company that applies sports and entertainment expertise to enable engaging gaming experiences and to build a portfolio of holdings in the esports and video gaming industry. Through strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions, it connects esports groups with venues, technologies, media content, distribution partners, and capital to support growth. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, the organization provides financial resources and industry know-how to ambitious teams and ventures that create compelling gaming experiences for fans, fostering the development and expansion of esports and gaming enterprises.

Savvy Games Group is a games and esports company focused on investing in the broader games and esports ecosystem, aiming to drive long-term growth by supporting game development, empowering people, and promoting access and inclusion in the industry; it seeks to enable gaming developers with esports resources and to foster the expansion of esports and the wider gaming sector.

Antler is a global venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Singapore that invests in technology companies and incubates startups across diverse sectors. It supports founders from day one with a worldwide community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, and expansion support, complemented by capital to help launch and scale ventures. Through regional funds and programs, Antler backs early-stage ventures across geographies, facilitating collaboration among founders and providing resources to help teams recruit, validate ideas, and enter markets.

Powerhouse Capital is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm focused on global technology opportunities in media, entertainment and interactive gaming. The firm bases its investment approach on four pillars—Sight (visual content), Sound (audio, music and podcasts), Play (gaming, sports and esports) and Live (the experience economy)—and targets direct-to-consumer platforms powered by data. With a cross-border lens on the United States and Canada, Powerhouse Capital pursues sectors where rapid scale and content-driven value creation can occur. It was founded in 2019 by veterans of Evolution Media to bring operating experience and strategic insight to high-growth companies in its target spaces. The firm aims to connect and support the broader Los Angeles ecosystem, helping portfolio companies scale through specialized knowledge and industry relationships.

Andromeda Capital is a Dubai-based venture capital firm founded in 2020. It focuses on investing in artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, financial technology, gaming, infrastructure, insurance technology, advanced manufacturing, and electronic sports sectors, leveraging a global network across industries to create long-term value for initiatives it incubates or advises on.

Mechanism Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on the cryptocurrency industry. It backs startups operating in decentralized finance, Web3, and blockchain infrastructure, as well as other transformative technologies in the digital economy. The firm seeks to support visionary founders developing solutions in crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and related programmable value, emphasizing permissionless innovation and alignment with evolving digital markets. By tracking industry trends and liquidity dynamics in crypto assets, Mechanism Capital aims to help portfolio companies scale and advance the adoption of decentralized technologies.

The Raine Group is an integrated merchant bank that advises and invests in high-growth technology, media and telecom sectors. It provides mergers and acquisitions advisory, private capital raising and strategic guidance, and also invests through growth equity and venture capital to support portfolio companies. The firm leverages a global network to serve clients across the United States, Europe and Asia, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mumbai and Singapore. Founded in 2009, The Raine Group focuses on entertainment, digital media, sports, content and gaming, backing innovative companies and adopting a global perspective on technology-driven growth.

Goal Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on digital media, ad tech, rights tech, social media, streaming, games and esports, data analytics, artificial intelligence, spatial computing, blockchain, digital retail and commerce, technology, and other emerging tech sectors.

WISE Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2018, it pursues early- and growth-stage investments in sectors such as consumer technology, information technology, advertising technology, real estate technology, and electronic sports. Led by a team with deep experience in sports, entertainment, and real estate, WISE Ventures aims to assess, champion, and add value to next-generation companies operating in these industries.

Will Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2019, it uses sport as a lens to identify and back innovative technologies with potential to scale beyond the sports world, focusing on opportunities at the intersection of sports, entertainment, consumer, healthcare, media, and technology. The firm seeks to invest in and support startups across sectors including healthcare services and devices, software and information technology services, apparel and accessories, consumer products and services, artificial intelligence, gaming, the creator economy, and emerging consumer technologies, aiming to apply sports insights to large adjacent markets.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in New Jersey. The firm focuses on seed-to-growth investments in deep tech sectors, including biotech and life sciences, hardware and robotics, and cross-border software with emphasis on markets in Asia. It supports startups from early stages with investment capital as well as resources such as laboratories, collaborative spaces, and expert mentorship to accelerate product development and market traction. SOSV operates purpose-built programs to help portfolio companies raise follow-on funding, scale operations, and reach customers, often through structured matchmaking and access to a global network of investors. With a broad portfolio spanning hundreds of companies worldwide, SOSV aims to foster innovation, build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems, and contribute to sustainable technological advancement.

Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. It invests in SportsTech and Entertainment, supporting companies that integrate sports, gaming and media with technology and data-driven platforms. The firm seeks opportunities across early-stage and growth-stage rounds to advance new markets and categories in the sports and entertainment ecosystems. Founding partners include DraftKings, General Catalyst, Accomplice and Boston Seed Capital, reflecting a collaboration between a leading sports entertainment company and veteran investors. Drive by DraftKings emphasizes backing ventures that enhance fan engagement, digital experiences and monetization models at the intersection of sports, gaming and media.

Mirana is an investment firm that focuses on Web3 technologies and provides investment, legal and advisory services. Its venture arm, Mirana Ventures, was founded in 2021 and is based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, aiming to invest in information technology and blockchain sectors.

STIC Ventures is a Seoul-based venture capital firm that invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models. Founded in 2018 as part of STIC Investments, the firm focuses on opportunities in Asia and targets sectors including B2B and B2C technology, gaming, media, logistics, healthcare, information technology, life sciences, and materials and resources.

Remagine Ventures is a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm that backs seed, pre-seed and early-stage startups, focusing on Israeli companies operating in media-related technology including artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, video and audio, marketplaces and platforms, e-commerce, advertising, esports, consumer tech and digital commerce, with emphasis on gaming, metaverse and the creator economy and often acting as a first cheque investor for ambitious founders. It collaborates with corporate partners to facilitate commercial opportunities and accelerate time to market, and maintains close ties to the Israeli tech ecosystem.

zVentures is the corporate venture capital arm of Razer, based in Singapore and established in 2016. It focuses on investments that align with the Razer ecosystem, including gaming hardware and software, esports, streaming, the internet of things, entertainment, communication, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, blockchain, renewable energy, carbon management, plastic management, and fintech. In addition to providing capital, zVentures facilitates collaboration by connecting portfolio companies with Razer's network of suppliers and original equipment manufacturers, customers, investors, and other industry stakeholders, helping to bring innovative technologies into Razer's strategic initiatives. The firm acts as a bridge between external innovators and Razer's business lines, accelerating opportunities for integration and scale.

Transcend is a venture investor that backs AI-native entrepreneurs building the next generation of interactive entertainment. In a $250 billion global market shaped by AI, the firm partners with founders leading that shift. Founded in 2020 by veterans with more than 70 years of operator experience and over $10 billion in lifetime revenue, Transcend focuses on early-stage opportunities, investing from pre-seed through Series A.

Sixers Innovation Lab is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Camden, New Jersey, affiliated with the Philadelphia 76ers. It supports early-stage consumer product startups by providing office space, mentorship from industry experts and leaders, and access to investors, alongside services in branding, marketing and legal matters, as well as housing and meals in the Philadelphia area. The program crafted in partnership with Kimball Office offers rapid, flexible engagement and opportunities to pitch to venture capital firms, with a focus on consumer products and related sectors such as sports, gaming, media and entertainment.

LVL1 Group is a London-based family office and private investment firm that engages in multi-strategy, venture-oriented investing across asset classes and geographies. Established in 2014, the firm pursues minority seed, early-stage, and later-stage investments in startups, emphasizing flexible, opportunistic approaches and close collaboration with founders to forge strategic relationships. The company seeks long-term value through disciplined research and analysis, aiming to support portfolio companies with global reach and potential. Sectors of focus include Online Travel, Gaming, eSports, Content and Community Platforms, among others.

The Hashgraph Group is a Swiss-based international venture capital and technology company that operates within the Hedera ecosystem. It funds and builds companies while delivering enterprise-grade Web3 solutions built on Hedera to enable secure, scalable digital infrastructure. The firm focuses its investments in FinTech, agtech, cleantech, gaming and edtech, and supports enterprise use cases such as supply chain traceability, digital credentials, IoT transactions, ESG measurement, and digital identity. By concentrating on Hedera-powered technologies, The Hashgraph Group aims to accelerate innovation across industries and contribute to a connected, decentralized digital economy.

March Capital is a Santa Monica-based growth-stage venture firm investing globally in enterprise technology companies with proven product-market fit. Since 2014, it focuses on areas such as cloud-based software, automation, AI, and IT infrastructure, and seeks to partner with entrepreneurs who have a provocative vision to scale rapidly. The firm leads rounds with deep conviction, emphasizes sector focus and disciplined time-to-value, and leverages a broad network, including The Montgomery Summit, to connect founders with investors and accelerate growth. March Capital aims to build category-defining companies that address large market opportunities and deliver meaningful, durable value for portfolios.

Verve Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It provides early-stage investment and support to startups across sectors including business and consumer products and services, healthcare, information technology, big data, esports, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It partners with founders to fund ideas and accelerate growth, seeking entrepreneurs with ambitious visions and the grit to bring them to life.

First Serve Partners is a Florida-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Waylon Ian Chin and Joey Brander. It concentrates on investing in consumer-driven sectors, including sports, media, entertainment, and consumer products, and also supports opportunities in technology, information technology, gaming, esports, blockchain, cryptocurrency, virtual reality, and other TMT sectors. The firm emphasizes an active, hands-on approach and leverages strategic relationships and insights into Millennials and Gen Z to engage with emerging trends and help portfolio companies grow. The organization is headquartered in Florida, with roots in Boca Raton.

305 Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Miami, Florida. It invests across a broad technology-oriented portfolio, targeting B2B and B2C companies as well as sectors such as media, healthcare, information technology, blockchain, fintech, esports and gaming, real estate technology, adtech, artificial intelligence, and digital health.