Keyvan Peymani, chief strategy officer at Animoca Brands, said that the Web3 gaming giant is expanding its portfolio to 600 companies next year.
“We invest in dozens of companies a year,” Peymani said during CNBC interviewed me on Tuesday. “The aim for that, whether it is AI or DePIN or DeFi or games, or any of the kind of new sectors and stablecoins and opportunities that are coming in, is to always look at how the ecosystem we are a part of is expanding.”
Gaming is the most important category at Animoca Brands portfolioThe gaming industry accounted for 230 out of 628 investments. After its founding in 2014, the company invested heavily into games, including Axie, CryptoKitties and Yield Guild Games.
A growing number of investments are being made by the company in Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure and Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
“What we aim to do is whenever there is something interesting and exciting happening, as with stablecoins and RWAs, that we’re going to become one of the market leaders,” He explained that Animoca aims to be a means for the whole retail sector to profit from the changes happening within the Web3 eco-system.
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“You should expect us to continue doing that and continue to find those projects that we think are going to be game-changing for the industry,” He added that stablecoins are a near-term priority for the firm.
Yat Siu, the founder of Animoca, told Cointelegraph Wednesday that there will be institutional involvement. “very important” Bitcoin is not the only crypto currency that will be growing in popularity.
“The institutional aspect won’t just be led by Bitcoin and buy some tokens to have exposure. It’s going to be institutional adoption in terms of utility, because of the market structure bill,” Siu said.
The Senate will vote in December on a draft bill that outlines how the agencies are going to divide up regulating cryptocurrency.
Animoca remains bullish about gaming
Despite Animoca expanding into new verticals, Peymani said gaming remains a strong priority.
“We’re still very bullish on what’s going to happen in games and how people can truly benefit from their time and energy and effort and money that they spend in those games to have an asset that lives beyond in the Web3 space,” He said.
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In the third quarter 2025, crypto venture capital funding jumped 290% from quarter to quarter. This was its highest quarter since Q1 with $4.8 billion investedGalaxy Digital published a report on Monday.
The report stated that the most capital was raised by established crypto companies, particularly those formed in 2018. Companies founded in 2024 were responsible for the largest number of transactions.
Animoca Brands are planning to go public Currenc Group will be listed on Nasdaq by the end of next year, following a reverse merger.
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