Hartmann Capital is a Frontier-Tech Investment Firm, seeking out opportunities that are producing global paradigm shifts, such as Digital Assets, Metaverse, VR/AR, Space, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism. In early 2018, Hartmann Capital launched its inaugural Long-Biased, Multi-Strategy Crypto Hedge Fund, Hartmann Digital Assets. The fund is renowned for its long/short, special situations, thematic, event-driven, and activist investing in the digital asset space. Since 2020, Hartmann Capital runs a pure prop arm, Hartmann Ventures, which has made long-term investments in both digital assets and space tech (Starbridge, Space Capital, Axiom, Lynk). In November 2021, Hartmann Capital launched its second fund, Hartmann Metaverse Ventures I, a pure Metaverse Venture Fund, focused on investing in the infrastructure, content, and access points of the Metaverse.
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How does Free-to-play Gorilla Tag Make $100MM? In-game cosmetics. Games are the new social media for Gen Alpha - and their status is tied to it. Players buy and wear to show off to their friends and people online. Check it out 👇
Big week ahead as Felix Hartmann keynotes the season opener of the CT Digital Forum -- and shares our thesis across GenAI, Spatial Computing, Gaming, and more.
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I’m working on a piece to explain the success of Gorilla Tag and Social VR - and it coincides with the death of the 3rd place (where people spend time outside of work/school & home) IRL daily social activity for youth has dropped 40% in 20yrs, from 48.4% to 29.5% attending some daily social interaction. GenZ/GenA’s 3rd place is digitally native - and they’re spending a lot of time there.
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Can you tell the difference between these two videos of Doom? One of them is real - the other one is completely AI generated. Incredible break though in generative content technology.
We can't wait for the launch ⚔ Congrats to Alek, Almir, and the team at Sinn Studio Inc. on the new experience and their continued success in making waves across VR gaming.
💰 We raised $2.5M to do the impossible. Earlier this year, despite the widely shared sentiment that it can't be done, we raised funds to chase the holy grail of VR gaming. What everyone else (reasonably) avoided, we dove into head-first like we had no choice. ➡️ Physics-based — multiplayer — VR combat Today, I'm happy to share that we succeeded! "Battlegrounds" is our new free-to-play VR game that successfully enables real-time physics-based combat between players. We're in closed alpha with 1,600+ testers and already seeing early indicators of how powerful the experience is: - Avg. time spent per user in the last 28 days: ~70 Minutes - Longest organic group session: 5 Hours - High retention: 60% (Day 1) — 30% (Day 7) - Low churn: <2% What I'm especially excited about are the unprompted social behaviours we've seen emerge within the community, like players forming their own clans with try-outs and regular multi-hour sessions. All of this was made possible by our exceptionally talented team, many of whom have been working with us in the VR combat genre for years! We're all eager to share our continued progress as we venture deeper into these uncharted waters. Battlegrounds will launch into open Early Access in Q1-2025 on the Meta Quest and Steam!
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This week in Generative AI and Gaming 🤖🕹 👇 - Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines by Google Research. - NeoFables released AI-generated VR storytelling in Quest Web Browser. - nunu.ai beat the Pokemon Emerald record. - Perplexity plans to start running ads in the fourth quarter. - NVIDIA launched AI agent blueprints for enterprises to build their AI apps. - Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here. - Aleph Alpha unveiled EU-compliant AI. Launched 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮-𝟭-𝗟𝗟𝗠. - Meta released new bots with web crawling capabilities. - AI21 Labs’ model Jamba gets the longest context window. - Will.i.am launched AI-led RAiDiO.FYI. - D-ID launched AI video translation, including voice cloning and lip sync. - Spellbook launched Associate: ‘First Full-Fledged’ Legal AI Agent. - YouTube has a new tool to help restore hacked channels: an AI chatbot. - Ideogram 2.0 text-to-image model, now available to all users for free. - Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone. Business and Funding: - Viggle AI raised $19M in funding for its AI video generator. - Nectar AI raised $3.9M to build revenue-generating AI companions. - Katara raised $2.2M. - Slingshot AI raised $30M in Seed Funding. - Otto raised $6M in Seed Funding. - Creatopy raised a $10M Series A. - Trace Machina Closes $4.7M Seed Funding. - Skyfire raised $8.5m to bring autonomous payments to AI agents. - Story raised $80M for a blockchain-based IP network. - Cursor raised $60 Million at a $400 Million Valuation. - AI coding startups such as Anysphere and Augment raised $433M in 2024 alone, bringing the total raised since January 2023 to $906M. - DEFCON AI raised $44M in Seed Funding.
Who are the startup leaders driving developments across GenAI? In our newest post, Daniel Derzic shares our thesis on GenAI -- and the companies advancing it forward: https://lnkd.in/eY4KApkx Convai Replika NPCx Regression Games Character.AI Altera Bitpart.AI Agentic Inpris HumAIns AvatarOS Inworld AI Charisma.ai VIRTUAL BEINGS Ready Player Me Evolwe Meeko.ai nunu.ai UneeQ Zibra AI Runway Wonder Dynamics Uthana Move AI Replikant Kinetix Spline Plask DeterminAI DeepMotion Motorica Pika Cascadeur HEAT Electric Sheep Latent Technology Anything World Sloyd Midjourney Alpha3D
Introducing our thesis on GenAI -- and how we see it revolutionizing gaming while developing a new creator economy where individuals can make high-quality games with minimal resources, in real-time. Download our thesis and find out more about our newest fund -- Hartmann Metaverse Ventures II: https://lnkd.in/e_rgfGdJ
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My article is published on XRUpdate! The question: What makes successful VR games differentiated from flat screen counter parts? https://lnkd.in/eGJ6mXqv
Congrats to the Flat2VR Studios team on an electric 5 months. Since our investment the team has announced not one, but four new titles coming to Quest and secured a spot in A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN. We’re excited to see what Eric Jasmine Harry and Elliott pull off by year end.
COO & Co-Founder @ Flat2VR Studios/Impact Reality Head of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
It's been an amazing few weeks. I'm blessed. So a few thanks are in order. A16Z GAMES Jack Soslow & Andrew Chen for believing in us. My partners Jasmine Uniza Harry Skigis Elliott Tate Our teams at Flat2VR Studios Impact Reality & early investors Hartmann Capital My wife Stefanie, daughter Charlie & the VR community 🙏