Yat Siu, Co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands
Entrepreneur and angel investor Yat Siu. Austrian-born and -raised, he left Vienna in 1996 to found Hong Kong Cybercity, the region's first free web page and email provider. Before moving to Hong Kong, he worked his first job at Atari in Germany before moving on to Lexicor, where he held the positions of director and head of the U.S. East Coast division. He founded Outblaze in the late 1990s, and in 2009 IBM purchased it. Outblaze is now a part of IBM's LotusLive family of products.
He established Animoca, one of the biggest apps in the world for publishers and developers, in Hong Kong in 2011. The developer is responsible for popular programs like Cinderella Cafe and Pretty Pet Salon, which was one of Apple’s top apps of 2011. The venture capital firms Intel Capital and IDG-Accel provided Animoca with early funding, which it used to build and release hundreds of apps for both the Android and iOS platforms.
In 2014, Siu established Animoca Brands, a business that was spun off from Animoca’s licensing and publishing divisions. It combines artificial intelligence and blockchain technology to produce and distribute smartphone apps like The Sandbox, and it is the official distributor of CryptoKitties in China.
Yat Siu had a successful career and was recognized for his services to business and society by the World Economic Forum as a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” and a “Young Global Leader,” among other honors.
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On August 24, Yat Siu, the executive chairman and co-founder of Animoca Brands and a pioneer of the open metaverse, attended Coinfest Asia. Yat was recently named to the newly formed Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Yat thinks that by supporting this creative project, other countries will be able to utilize it as a model to address a variety of issues related to commerce, education, finance, corporate operations, and even daily living.
2022
Liberty City Ventures and many other VCs were the driving force behind the $360 million round of funding that Animoca Brands completed in January 2022 at a valuation of $5.4 billion. The company is anticipated to expand the open metaverse and become one of the key participants in the entire sector by driving digital property rights through NFTs and gaming.
Yat Siu is an active Twitter user who frequently tweets about blockchain games, NFTs, and the open metaverse. He believes that in 2022, additional funds and investments will expand the Web3 and improve how we live, play, and work.
It is anticipated that Yat Siu and Animoca Brands would continue to invest in sports, a sector with a significant capital allocation, as well as in the development and resources of the metaverse and NTFs. It is realistic to anticipate that Animoca Brands will announce further projects for release in 2022 and beyond.
Latest news about Yat Siu
Chiliz Chain has welcomed Animoca Brands as a validator and leading participant, further decentralizing its governance. Animoca Brands, a leading institution in blockchain innovation, will join Chiliz’s existing network of validators, including Ankr, Paribu, Meria, Luganoes, and InfStones. The move allows Animoca Brands to integrate within Chiliz’s thriving ecosystem of elite sports brands and Web3 sports operators. The Chiliz Chain is becoming the home for leading sports brands in Web3, with over 80 Fan Tokens deployed on the chain.
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