The Web3 gaming giant plans to invest in dozens of companies across multiple sectors including AI, DePIN, DeFi, games, and stablecoins.
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Animoca Brands is looking beyond gaming next year to expand its current portfolio of around 600 companies, says the firm's chief strategy officer Keyvan Peymani. The Web3 gaming giant plans to invest in dozens of companies across multiple sectors including AI, DePIN, DeFi, games, and stablecoins.
Peymani said during a CNBC interview on Tuesday that the aim is to always look at how the ecosystem they are part of is expanding. Gaming represents the biggest category in Animoca Brands' portfolio, with 230 of the 628 companies it has invested in being related to gaming.
The company leaned heavily into gaming after its 2014 founding, investing in projects including Axie Infinity, CryptoKitties, Colossal and Yield Guild Games. The company has a growing amount of investment in infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and decentralized finance. Peymani explained that whenever something interesting and exciting happens, as with stablecoins and RWAs, Animoca aims to become one of the market leaders.
He added that Animoca is aiming to become a way for the entire retail sector to benefit from the changes that happen within the Web3 ecosystem. Animoca founder Yat Siu said on Wednesday that institutional participation will be very important for the crypto industry's next phase of growth, but it won't only be about Bitcoin.
Siu said that, rather than the institutional aspect being led by Bitcoin and buying some tokens to have exposure, it's going to be institutional adoption in terms of utility, because of the market structure bill. On Nov. 11, U.S. lawmakers released a draft of a crypto market structure bill to denote how agencies will split the regulation of crypto, which the Senate is set to vote on in December.
Despite Animoca expanding into new verticals, Peymani said gaming remains a strong priority. The company is still very bullish on what's going to happen in games and how people can truly benefit from the time, energy, effort, and money they spend in those games to have an asset that lives beyond in the Web3 space.
The third quarter of 2025 saw a 290% quarter-on-quarter jump in crypto venture funding, marking its strongest quarter since Q1 with $4.8 billion invested, Galaxy Digital reported on Monday.
Established companies in the crypto space, especially those founded in 2018, accounted for the majority of the capital raised. Animoca Brands is planning to go public on the Nasdaq next year via reverse merger with the AI-focused public fintech company Currenc Group.
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