Yat Siu

Bio

• From Cointelegraph (2-2023):

"A vociferous advocate for an open metaverse, Yat Siu is well known as a crusader for true digital property rights and is among the most prolific investors in the crypto ecosystem. Born to musically inclined parents, Siu was enrolled in the Music and Arts University in Vienna to follow in their footsteps. However, in pursuing a faster way to compose music, Siu wrote his own software program that landed him his first job and defined a different career path than his parents had imagined. Siu launched Cybercity as Hong Kong’s first internal and email provider in 1996 and has been a serial entrepreneur ever since, founding companies such as Outblaze, Animoca and Animoca Brands.

Siu’s work over the past two decades has established him as one of the central characters in online gaming, nonfungible tokens and other blockchain applications. Having co-founded Animoca in 2011 as a gaming app company that could cater to the global NFT gaming market, Siu has overseen over 380 investments in the blockchain space, with more than 170 being NFT-based projects that are contributing toward his vision of building an open metaverse."

Occupations

• Animoca Brands; co-founder

Investments

• BeraChain; part of the Series B $100M (12-4-2024).
• From Cointelegraph (2-2023):

"Among his top investments are projects such as OpenSea, The Sandbox, Yield Guild Games, Dapper Labs and Decentraland, with Siu continuing to dedicate most of his time toward driving digital property rights through gaming and NFTs. Siu was the most active venture capital investor in 2022, with 123 individual deals, investing in projects such as Deviants’ Factions, Engines of Fury, Galaxy Fight Club and Drunk Robots."