Investor Spotlight Series — Animoca Brands
Following the spotlight articles on our lead investor Libertus Capital, we’re thrilled to announce the closing of investment from Animoca Brands in Sportium
Sportium, the multi-sports NFT marketplace, announced today that it has successfully closed investment from Animoca Brands, following the successful closing of lead investment from Libertus Capital.
Animoca Brands is a global leader in gamification and blockchain with a large portfolio of over 100 investments in NFT-related companies and decentralized projects that are contributing to building the open metaverse.
The new funding announced today will be used to further reinforce Sportium’s endeavors to become the global leading marketplace and ecosystem to play with, trade, and earn sports NFTs. Animoca Brands is not only the developer and publisher of original games, including The Sandbox, REVV Racing, and Phantom Galaxies, but also works with globally popular IPs including Disney, WWE, MotoGP™ and Power Rangers. The Sportium team is very excited and looking forward to the tremendous values Animoca Brands can contribute to the project as an integral strategic investor.
Yat Siu, the executive chairman and co-founder of Animoca Brands, commented:
“Sportium is led by a team with strong engineering capabilities and a powerful vision. We look forward to leveraging the synergies with our extensive portfolio of products and IPs to collaborate on user-friendly and entertaining NFT-based experiences that will help bring sports fans into the open metaverse.”
About Sportium
Sportium is a multi-faceted sports NFT platform with the goal of bringing traditional sports to the Metaverse. Using the platform, various sports and pro leagues can easily enter the crypto sphere and create fan communities built around officially licensed intellectual property (IP). Each sport or league can be implemented as a customized decentralized application (DApp) in the Sportium ecosystem. Users can collect, trade, play, and earn through Sportium DApps.
Join the Sportium Community
Website: https://sportium.fan/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sportium_Fan
Telegram: https://t.me/SportiumOfficial
Medium: https://medium.com/@Sportium_Official
Discord: http://abit.ly/sportium
