Jens Hilgers

Berlin Germany

Founding General Partner

Venture Capital / Private Equity

Jens is a Founding Partner of BITKRAFT Esports Ventures, the world’s first and largest dedicated esports investment fund. He is also Co-founder and Chairman of Esports team G2 Esports as well as Co-Founder and CEO of the leading big data company in Esports DOJO Madness. Widely considered one of the Godfathers of esports Jens launched his first esports online platform gamers.de in 1997 which he sold in 1999 to then found ESL in 2000. As CEO for ten years, Jens grew ESL into the world's most prestigious esports brand and, along with it, paved the way for esports to go mainstream. In 2015, international entertainment company, MTG, acquired a majority stake in ESL in 2015.