BITKRAFT Esports Ventures

Total investments

60

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

47

Rounds per year

10.00

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareGamingPC GameseSportsAugmented RealityVirtual RealitySportsAdvertisingMedia and EntertainmentVideo Games

Summary

BITKRAFT Esports Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Berlin.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Augmented Reality, Analytics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Playable Worlds, FanAI, Network Next.

The current fund was established by Jens Hilgers. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the BITKRAFT Esports Ventures, startups are often financed by Sisu Game Ventures, Rhino Ventures (Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund), Mike Fischer. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Everblue Management, YuChiang Cheng, Tuesday Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tuesday Capital, TRUST ESPORT, Sapphire Sport.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. This BITKRAFT Esports Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
60
Lead investments
22
Exits
2
Rounds per year
10.00
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Gaming (25)
  • Video Games (20)
  • eSports (19)
  • PC Games (9)
  • Sports (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (33)
  • Sweden (2)
  • Israel (4)
  • Germany (10)
  • Spain (1)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
13M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
13.71

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Latest deals

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