{"id":5085,"date":"2022-08-31T03:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:25:38","slug":"temasek-invests-100-million-in-metaverse-giant-animoca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/temasek-invests-100-million-in-metaverse-giant-animoca\/","title":{"rendered":"Temasek Invests $100 Million in Metaverse Giant Animoca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Temasek, a Singaporean state-owned company managing $300 billion, has invested $100 million in Animoca Brands, known for its metaverse investments, through convertible bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animoca Brands, a game developer company, recently received a $22.5 million<\/strong> investment from Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG), the world’s second-largest banking and financial institution, for its Japanese branch. Now, it has secured a substantial investment from Temasek, a Singapore state-owned enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources, Temasek plans to finance this significant investment using convertible bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither Animoca Brands nor Temasek have made any official statements regarding this matter as of yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hundreds of millions of dollars poured in from the world’s biggest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Animoca Brands raised $359 million from investors, including George Soros and the Winklevoss twins, owners of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, in an investment round launched in January of this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same investment round, the company previously secured $75 million in the summer. Following these investments, Animoca reached a valuation of $6 billion, transforming from a small mobile game developer into Asia’s largest blockchain-focused investor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-known for its investments in the Metaverse, Animoca also holds the largest stake in Sandbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yat Siu, a co-founder of Animoca, recently mentioned in an interview with Bloomberg that they are closely monitoring the dips in the cryptocurrency<\/a><\/em><\/strong> markets and considering this environment as an opportunity for further acquisitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Temasek, a Singaporean state-owned company managing $300 billion, has invested $100 million in Animoca Brands, known for its metaverse investments, through convertible bonds. Animoca Brands, a game developer company, recently received a $22.5 million investment from Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG), the world’s second-largest banking and financial institution, for its Japanese branch. Now, it has secured a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaverse1","tag-metaverse-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}