# Top 30 ESports Startup Investors in Germany in May 2026

## DN Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

## March Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS

March Capital is a top-tier venture growth firm headquartered in Santa Monica, California and investing globally since 2014. March identifies entrepreneurs with a provocative vision to lead the future and later-stage companies poised for hyper-growth, then dares to go all in by leading rounds with deep conviction and concentration risk. With $1B+in capital over 4 funds and across 30 market-leading technology companies, March accelerates the digital transformation of Cloud-based software, automation, AI, & IT infrastructure. Our vision is to create a best-in-class technology investment platform by combining intense sector focus, patience, access to a global leadership network (including founding The Montgomery Summit), and high-impact portfolio engagement to inspire & to accelerate extraordinary companies.

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

## LVP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

## Everblue Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, eSports

Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.

## J Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

J Ventures is a venture capital firm. They move fast on decisions, are patient with growth timelines, and hustle to help entrepreneurs reach their goals.

## Investitionsbank Berlin
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy

Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) is the subsidy bank of the Federal Land of Berlin. With its newly orientated economic support and subsidy policy, it actively contributes towards developing Berlin as a business and industry location.

## Carcharodon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Carcharodon Capital provides seed financing for start-ups. The funds can also be provided during the foundation and serve the development and development of the company. The investment volume is between € 50,000 and € 200,000 per investment and can be provided in the form of equity, debt capital or as a hybrid (eg silent partner).

## Nuard Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: IaaS, Real Time, Predictive Analytics

Nuard Ventures invests in innovative early stage companies. 

## Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Analytics

Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder is a venture capital fund and an experienced venture builder co-creating thriving global tech businesses.

## Dan Gilbert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Sports, Digital Media, Internet

Dan Gilbert is Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He was an Investor at StockX. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.

## Raine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, Internet

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

## TRUST ESPORT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, eSports

Trsut Esport is a VC Fund for Esports and Gaming

## Avala Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Avala Capital invests in high-growth companies with ambitious goals and the talents to achieve them. The company partners with exceptional entrepreneurs capable of disrupting a market by creating major change in a way which can be sustained and scaled. Its focus is on Internet business models, such as cloud, mobile, and online marketplaces as wellas on businesses heavily benefiting from offline to online conversion.

## The Hive
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

The Hive is a studio that incubates, funds and launches businesses that use large volumes of data for intelligent decision making. The Hive’s startups create applications that leverage data with one or many of the following characteristics:
- Combining First Party, 3rd Party & Public Data
- From different sources (unstructured/structured, streaming/stored)
- Volume of data
- New scale-out processing & storage infrastructures
- Use of Search & Machine Learning ApproachesThe Hive also hosts events featuring thought leaders in the applications and technology of Big Data. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Areas-Big-Data-Think-Tank/Are you an entrepreneur seeking to disrupt a market?
Contact us at startup@hivedata.com

## Fertitta Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Sports, Fitness, Media and Entertainment

Fertitta Capital Inc. is a principal investment firm specializing in fund of fund investments and direct investments. It invests in a throughout business' lifecycle and across the capital structure. The firm seeks to invest in consumer-facing companies in the technology, media, and entertainment sectors. It prefers to invest in the UnitedStates. The firm invests between $20 million and $75 million per position. The firm prefers to take minority or majority stakes in its portfolio companies. Fertitta Capital Inc. was founded on May 1, 2017 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

## APX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

## YuChiang Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: eSports, Video Games, Gaming

YuChiang Cheng is the Chief Product Officer of Zwift.
YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs.

## Dreamcraft Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, eSports, Health Care

Seed-to-A engineers.
We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.

## Kakao Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

## Joseph Tsai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce

Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School.

## Sequoia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Impulse VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Software, E-Commerce

Fund for technological internet companies

## Sumit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising

Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M

## Myke Naef
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Sports

Myke Naef

## IFB Innovationsstarter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.

## Segnalita
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wattens, Tirol, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software

Segnalita is very proud of working together with passionate entrepreneurs and promising companies. With a focus on the future and the ongoing expansion of their portfolio they are continuously looking for enthusiastic founders and their ideas.

## Sony Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.

## Go4it Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Sports, Digital Media, Food Processing

Go4it partners with entrepreneurs innovating in sports, digital media and well-being, to create an active and enjoyable world.

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