[3][4] He is also the founding general partner of BITKRAFT Ventures, a global early and mid-stage investment platform for gaming, esports, and a new technology named Web3.

Hilgers attributes his fondness for product development to his childhood exposure to the plastic construction toy Lego and the Amiga 500 computer.

While in college, he built Gamers.de, a news portal for online PC games; Later he launched the first German Clan League and created Gamers Gathering, a European LAN-Party.

Turtle Entertainment is the parent company of the Electronic Sports League (ESL), one of the world's largest esports organizations.

During his ten-year tenure as CEO, Hilgers helped expand the company into becoming a major brand that contributed to the esports industry.