Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands (Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd) was founded in January 2014 by Yat Siu and is a spin-off of Animoca (Appionics Holdings Ltd.).[3]

Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd
Typeltd
IndustryVideo games, Venture Capital, Blockchain
Founded2014[1]
FoundersYat Siu
Headquarters
Hong Kong
,
China
Key people
Robby Yung, Yat Siu
ProductsThe Sandbox, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, F1® Delta Time, Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes, Crazy Defense Heroes
Revenue38M (2020)[2]

It had been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange since 23 January 2015.[4] As of March 9, 2020, Animoca Brands has been delisted from the ASX.[5]

Video games

Acquisitions
Leade.rs

Animoca Brands owns 100% of the event organisation platform Leade.rs.[7]

OliveX

Animoca Brands owns 85% of OliveX.ai, partner of lympo.com.[8]

Zeroth.ai and RightBridge Ventures

Animoca Brands owns 67% of Zeroth.ai.[9] Zeroth is an early-stage startup incubator focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning companies. So far more than 60 companies from 15 countries have been supported with sums ranging from $20,000 to $120,000. In return, Zeroth receives 6% of the shares in each company. Zeroth.ai has a partnership with the Incubator and VC DEEPCORE, a company of the SoftBank Group. Animoca owns 15% in stocks of RightBridge Ventures. RightBridge will be an investment company dedicated to identifying and acquiring companies in the esports and gaming space.[10]

Pixowl, TicBits, nWay, iCandy Interactive, Sky Mavis, Dapper Labs, TSB Gaming, GAMEE, Tribeflame, Stryking Entertainment, Lucid Sight, Quidd, Experimental Group and Skytree

Animoca Brands owns the game developers Pixowl, TicBits, nWay, TSB Gaming, GAMEE, Quidd, Tribeflame, Stryking Entertainment and is invested in Experimental Group and with $6M in Lucid Sight. Animoca owns 75% of the game developer Skytree.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

Animoca Brands owns 15.5% company shares of iCandy Interactive Limited.[22]

Animoca Brands invested in Sky Mavis, the maker of Axie Infinity.[23]

Animoca Brands has a partnership with the blockchain company Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties.

Fuel Powered

Animoca Brands owns 60% of the shares in Fuel Powered, a multiplayer and live event service provider for mobile games.[24]

Date, LikeCoin, Musicoin, OST, Harmony, I-House and Lympo

Animoca Brands holds stakes in the blockchain companies: Date, LikeCoin, Musicoin, OST, Harmony, I-House and Lympo.

Mind Fund and Helix

Animoca Brands has a partnership with venture capital firm Mind Fund and Accelerator Helix.

Brinc AOA

Animoca Brands is co-founder of the gaming and esports accelerator Brinc AOA.

Talenthouse

Animoca Brands has a strategic partnership with Talenthouse (US$2m for 448,413 shares of preferred stock in Talenthouse).[25]

Partnerships
HTC

Animoca Brands has a partnership with HTC. This includes product development and collaboration in the areas of games, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality.[26]

iClick Interactive Asia Limited

Animoca Brands has a partnership with iClick Interactive Asia Limited. The deal is expected to generate $8 million in revenues for Animoca in 2019.[27]

Softbanks Deepcore

Animoca Brands' subsidiary Zeroth.ai and Softbanks Deepcore have a partnership.[28]

Atari

Animoca Brands has a partnership with Atari. As a pilot project Animoca develops a blockchain version of RollerCoaster Tycoon.[29][30]

Coincheck

Animoca has a collaboration with Coincheck.[31]

Funding

On November 15, 2011, Animoca raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a Series A round led by Intel Capital and IDG-Accel (which tapped its China Growth Fund III).[32]

On August 15, 2018, Animoca raised $1 million investment by Sun Hung Kai and $0.5 million by strategic partner Lympo.[33]

On December 18, 2018, Animoca Brands announced that it has completed a ~A$715k placement to institutional and sophisticated investors.[34]

In May 2019, Animoca raised $2.5 million in funding for the rebuilding of The Sandbox to be a blockchain gaming platform with user-generated content.[35] In Q3/2019, Animoca's The Sandbox raised another $2.01 million in cash and cryptocurrency. Investors included Square Enix, B Cryptos, and True Global Ventures.[36][37]

In September 2020 Animoca launched his own ERC-20-Token: "REVV" on Uniswap.[38]

References
  1. "Animoca Brands: Revolutionizing the branded mobile gaming industry".
  2. https://www.animocabrands.com/reports-record-revenue
  3. "Animoca Spins Off "Animoca Brands"".
  4. "Animoca Brands lists on Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)".
  5. "Animoca Brands (ASX:AB1) delisted from ASX".
  6. "Animoca Brands has an early lead in blockchain gaming boom". February 21, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  7. "ASX-listed Animoca acquires event organising platform Leade.rs".
  8. "Animoca Brands launches new business OliveX".
  9. "AI accelerator Zeroth bags investment from digital media firm Animoca".
  10. https://www.nyemissioner.se/foretag/planerad-notering/rightbridge_ventures_ab/2234
  11. "Animoca Brands acquires Sandbox game developer Pixowl for $4.875 million". August 27, 2018.
  12. https://www.animocabrands.com/animoca-brands-acquires-gamee
  13. "Animoca acquires Finnish dev TicBits".
  14. ""The Sandbox" (TSB Gaming) receives ~$3.6m in investment".
  15. "Animoca Brands acquires Finnish mobile developer Tribeflame".
  16. "Animoca Brands acquires Stryking and completes strategic capital raise".
  17. https://gamesbusinessreview.com/2019/04/04/animoca-brands-invests-6m-in-lucid-sight-developer-of-mlb-champions
  18. "Animoca Brands acquires award-winning game studio Skytree". April 12, 2019.
  19. "HotCopper | ASX Share Prices, Stock Market & Share Trading Forum".
  20. "Snap is raising $1 billion to invest in content, AR, and possible acquisitions". August 7, 2019.
  21. "Animoca Brands to acquire Quidd".
  22. https://www.animocabrands.com/update-sale-game-icandy
  23. "The Maker of Axie Infinity, Sky Mavis, Gets Investment from Animoca Brands". November 7, 2019.
  24. "Animoca buys Fuel Powered and reveals Chinese CryptoKitties deal".
  25. "Animoca Brands partners with global talent platform Talenthouse". March 29, 2019.
  26. "Animoca Brands partners with HTC for capital and mobile distribution boost". July 12, 2018.
  27. https://smallcaps.com.au/animoca-brands-chinese-marketing-partnership-iclick-interactive
  28. "SoftBank's Deepcore and accelerator Zeroth team up to hunt early-stage AI opportunities".
  29. "Atari and Animoca Brands will do blockchain-based Rollercoaster Tycoon and Goon Squad games". December 18, 2018.
  30. https://www.animocabrands.com/expands-partnership-atari
  31. https://www.animocabrands.com/the-sandbox-partners-with-coincheck
  32. "Mobile Games Publisher Animoca Raises Funding From Intel, IDG-Accel". Techcrunch. November 15, 2011.
  33. "Animoca Brands secures investment from renowned Asian financial powerhouse". August 15, 2018.
  34. https://www.animocabrands.com/animoca-brands-invests-in-zeroth-ai
  35. "Animoca Brands raises $2.5 million for The Sandbox blockchain gaming platform". VentureBeat. May 22, 2019. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
  36. https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrynpollock/2020/03/30/blockchain-gaming-attracting-heavy-hitters-as-square-enix-backs-tsb-gaming/
  37. https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/19/the-sandbox-raises-2-million-more-to-build-out-blockchain-based-game-world/
  38. https://www.blockchaingamer.biz/news/14646/animoca-brands-f1-delta-time-revv-token/
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