Animoca

Basics

• Aka Animoca Brands
• Blockchain game maker and investment firm

Projects

Axie Infinity

• One of the inaugural validators of Ronin (24-12-2021).

Investments

• Animoca Brands’ 2022 investments included companies such as Neptune Mutual, Balthazar, Metaplex Foundation, Burnt Finance, Ancient8, TRLab, Kyoko, Pixels and many others.
• Animoca Brands will aim to raise $1 billion for its metaverse investing fund in the early part of 2023, softening previous ambitions to raise as much as $2 billion.
• Has a portfolio of over 380 Web3 projects like Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, OpenSea and Dapper Labs (5-12-2022).
• Shima Capital; they got some of their seed money for their first $200M fund from here (17-8-2022).

Team, Funding and Partners

• Yat Siu; co-founder and executive chairman
• The firm has continued to grow, raising its valuation to $5.9 billion during 2022.
• From Decrypt (12-11-2020):

"Atari has announced partnerships with other online games and services that plan to implement the Atari Token, providing further opportunities to make use of it.

Atari has also partnered with Animoca Brands, a major player in crypto games thanks to titles like The Sandbox and F1 Delta Time, to develop blockchain-powered versions of classic Atari games like Asteroids and Centipede. These games will be playable on the VCS."