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Animoca Brands

Unit 417-421, Level 4, Cyberport 1, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong

Overview

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

Total investments
214
Lead investments
82
Investments · 12mo
20
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Apps
  • Blockchain
  • Casual Games
  • Developer Platform
  • Metaverse
  • Video Games
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Investment portfolio

  • Dow Protocol

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Dow Protocol develops infrastructure to tokenize real-world assets and bring traditional assets onto blockchain networks. The company aims to enable tokenized representations of assets such as real estate, commodities, and private credit for on-chain trading and liquidity. Specific technical differentiators and product details have not been publicly disclosed, and no launch timeline was provided in the reporting. Dow faces competition from established RWA platforms including Ondo Finance, Centrifuge, and Maple Finance. The firm recently bolstered its balance sheet with a $9 million seed round backed by a diverse group of investors, suggesting market validation but early-stage status. Regulatory uncertainty around securities classification and cross-border compliance in the RWA sector is noted as a material consideration for the company’s development and adoption.

  • Vangrid

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Vangrid develops a decentralised spatial intelligence network that activates cameras and sensors on smartphones to generate continuously updated, verified spatial data. The platform emphasizes privacy-first capture with on-device blurring of faces and license plates and onchain verification for provenance before data reaches its enterprise spatial API. Vangrid positions itself between legacy fleet-based mapping and unverified open crowdsourcing by compensating contributors and providing enterprise-grade, provenance-tracked data. Its target customers include robotics, autonomous systems, and defence organisations, and the company has signed MOUs with strategic data partners while reporting live transactions on the platform. Vangrid raised $9 million in seed funding to bootstrap network density, expand its edge-computation pipeline, and deepen enterprise partnerships.

  • UpRock

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Founded in 2022 and based in Bucharest, UpRock runs apps (desktop and mobile) that collect anonymized device and web-performance data and sells aggregated datasets and testing services to business customers. The project publicly states apps are cryptographically signed and mobile clients are distributed only via official app stores; the desktop app presents internally as "UpRock Mining." Users earn in the project's token, UPT, which trades at about $0.004 with a market capitalization of a little over $1 million and is listed on exchanges including MEXC, BitMart, Meteora and Orca. The company presents a B2B revenue model (clients buying performance tests and aggregated data) while disbursing rewards to users in token form. Reported withdrawal policies from June 2024 set a 250 UPT minimum and a dynamic fee linked to SOL, but some June 2026 user reports cite a 255 UPT threshold plus a 55 UPT fixed fee; coverage recommends verifying withdrawal terms in the app. Public reputation is mixed, with Trustpilot averaging about 2.4/5 and automated site-rating services like Scam Detector assigning higher trust scores (~80/100).

  • Savior of Health

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Savior of Health operates an AI medical platform focused on AI-driven medical and health management services. The company is pursuing development of next-generation medical infrastructure and AI research grounded in health questionnaires and surveys. It announced a $4 million strategic financing to support those initiatives and to expand its global medical ecosystem. Specific operating metrics, revenue, users, founding year, and location were not disclosed in the articles. The announcement emphasizes strategic use of proceeds for product and infrastructure development and international expansion.

  • KOR Protocol

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    KOR Protocol offers an end-to-end platform intended to serve as a clearinghouse for creative assets and talent in the AI era. Its product stack centers on three layers—production (establishing origin, authenticity, ownership, and clearance), distribution (intelligence and workflow tools to route talent and content), and monetization (payments, splits, licensing flows, and revenue management). Several apps already build on the protocol, including KORUS (music remixing and release packs), Pacer (an AI operating system for music release and audience management), VRSNS, Streamline, and KOR Hubs. Since launch the company reports over 1 million lifetime sign-ups, 400,000 connected wallets, 1,000+ IP partners (including Black Mirror, Beatport, mau5trap, Imogen Heap, Banijay Group, and KDDI), and more than $2 million in gross revenue. Ritty Quin was appointed CEO late in the prior year to lead the company’s growth across technology and the creator economy. KOR intends to expand licensed IP supply, deepen its protocol and products, scale partnerships across music and entertainment, and onboard more creators and commercial partners as it builds toward a larger network rollout.

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