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Animoca Brands develops and publishes its broad portfolio of blockchain and traditional games and other products. It is a prolific investor with over 170 investments in NFT-related blockchain companies and decentralized projects that are contributing to building the open metaverse. The portfolio includes Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others.
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others.
Their mission
To deliver digital property rights to the world's gamers and Internet users, thereby creating a new asset class, play-to-earn economies, and a more equitable digital framework contributing to the building of the open metaverse.
THEIR VISION
Since 2018, we have laid out our vision for the new reality of digital ownership in a variety of thought pieces and explainers. Here are some of the thought pieces from Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, to give you background and context.
Animoca, mobile games developer, raised an undisclosed amount of funding on November 15, 2011. In 2014 Animoca Brands was founded by Yat Siu and David Kim as the company (Animoca Brands) spun out from Animoca.
Animoca Brands raised a $1 million investment from Sun Hung Kai and $0.5 million from strategic partner Lympo on August 15, 2018[1].
Animoca Brands has raised $2.5 million in funding for blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox, which is based on user-generated content[2].