Animoca Brands
Tech company
Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd. is a Hong Kong–based game software company and venture capital company co-founded in 2014 by Yat Siu and David Kim. The company initially focused on developing mobile games, then shifted to blockchain gaming and NFTs in 2018, and to AI in 2025.
Animoca Brands was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange from 23 January 2015 to 9 March 2020.
History
On 15 November 2011, mobile games developer 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). In 2014 Animoca Brands was spun out from Animoca, and the new entity listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in January 2015.
From January to March 2018, Animoca Brands started rolling out Crazy Kings and its sequel, Crazy Defense Heroes generating US$2.8 million in revenue in the first three months worldwide.
In March 2018, Animoca Brands launched OliveX, a fitness metaverse company building mobile games to gamify the fitness industry, which spun off from the company in August 2020.
On 15 August 2018, Animoca Brands raised a $1 million investment from Sun Hung Kai & Co. and $0.5 million from strategic partner Lympo.
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