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Animoca Brands portfolio: 135 companies, 48 in gaming

135 Animoca Brands portfolio companies tracked on NAUT, from October 2018 to October 2026. Logos: ApeCoin, Polygon, Yuga Labs, OneFootball, Monad, Immutable X, LayerZero, Berachain, Gunzilla Games, Metaplex, Mask Network, 0G.

NAUT tracks 135 companies in the Animoca Brands portfolio, across 152 round records announced between October 2018 and October 2026. NAUT holds a disclosed size for 141 of those rounds, $3.63B together, with a median of $6.0M, and gaming is the largest group at 48 of the 135 companies.

Data note. Counted on 2 November 2026 from NAUT's own database, across the 3 live rows that hold the Animoca family: Animoca Brands (126 investments on its page), Animoca Brands (Ventures) (45 investments on its page) and Animoca Brands Japan (0). NAUT lists the group under those 3 rows and has not merged them, so a reader who opens only the parent page sees 126 of the 171 stored backer rows. This page counts the union of the rows, each company once. The Animoca Ventures portfolio row carries 45 of the 171 rows on its own.

Those 171 backer rows point at 152 round records. 146 carry an amount, and 5 of those repeat an amount already stored for the same company under a second round label, so the sum here uses 141 priced rounds and $3.63B. Read $3.63B as an upper bound rather than a clean deployment figure: Immutable X holds 2 records of the same $200.0M Series C, Sapien holds 4 records that look like 2 rounds, and the $450.0M stored against Yuga Labs and the $450.0M stored against ApeCoin are very likely the one March 2022 Yuga Labs raise recorded against both company rows. Treat $450.0M of that total as countable once, and the figure reads $3.18B.

20 of the 152 records carry no announcement date, so the 132 dated rounds define the window above, and a date is shown only where NAUT holds one. Each company sits in exactly 1 sector group, the first sector tag NAUT holds for it, so the groups add up to 135; 13 companies carry no tag and get their own group. 91 of the 135 companies have a live token on NAUT's record. Every backer row for all 3 Animoca rows carries no lead flag, so this page says Animoca joined each round and never that it led one: that is NAUT's record of the lead, not the world's. Written by NAUT Research.

What is in the Animoca Brands portfolio on NAUT?

Companies per group, the median priced round and the disclosed total NAUT holds.

Sector Companies Median Total
Gaming 48 $5.0M $1531.0M
AI 15 $12.8M $318.1M
DeFi 15 $5.8M $194.1M
Layer 1, 2 and 3 8 $5.8M $303.7M
Infrastructure 8 $21.4M $675.1M
SocialFi 5 $5.3M $22.1M
DePIN 2 $9.1M $18.1M
Other sectors 21 $6.5M $483.1M
No sector tag 13 $5.0M $87.0M

Gaming holds more companies than every other group put together, 48 of 135, and $1531.0M of the disclosed money. The 8 infrastructure companies carry the highest median round at $21.4M, against $5.0M in gaming, which is the gap between a studio seed and a chain or bridge round. "Other sectors" collects the 21 companies whose first tag is a smaller one: real-world assets, privacy, tools, decentralized exchanges, launchpads, stablecoins, wallets, prediction markets and intelligence.

Which Animoca Brands portfolio rounds were the largest?

Ranked by the round size NAUT records, largest first. These are whole-round sizes, never Animoca's own cheque, which is almost never disclosed.

Company Round Date Amount
Equity round Mar 2022 $450.0M
Funding round Feb 2022 $450.0M
Seed round No date stored $450.0M
Series D Apr 2022 $300.0M
Funding round Apr 2024 $225.0M
Series C Mar 2022 $200.0M
Series A extension Mar 2022 $135.0M
Series B Apr 2024 $100.0M
Funding round Aug 2022 $46.0M
Funding round Jan 2022 $46.0M
Funding round Jul 2022 $42.0M
Cumulative private round No date stored $42.0M
Seed round Nov 2024 $40.0M
Funding round Aug 2022 $40.0M

The sources name a lead for several of these, even though NAUT's own rows carry no lead flag. TechCrunch reported Polygon's $450.0M round as a venture financing round from Sequoia Capital India, SoftBank and Tiger Global. Monad's own announcement names its $225.0M fundraise and the firm that led it. Reports on LayerZero's $135.0M Series A+ name Sequoia Capital, a16z and FTX Ventures as the leads. Berachain's $100.0M Series B was co-led by Framework Ventures and the Abu Dhabi branch of Brevan Howard Digital, and Immutable's $200.0M Series C was reported at a $2.5B valuation. Cointelegraph reported Yuga Labs at a $4B valuation after a $450.0M seed round, which is the raise stored twice here.

Largest round per company, the 12 biggest, $M
  1. ApeCoin$450M
  2. Polygon$450M
  3. Yuga Labs$450M
  4. OneFootball$300M
  5. Monad$225M
  6. Immutable X$200M
  7. LayerZero$135M
  8. Berachain$100M
  9. Gunzilla Games$46M
  10. Metaplex$46M
  11. Mask Network$42M
  12. Recall Network$42M

One round per company, so the duplicate $200.0M record for Immutable X is counted once. 3 of the 12 sit at $450.0M, and 2 of those 3 are the same Yuga Labs raise under 2 company rows.

When did Animoca Brands invest, year by year?

"Gaming" counts the round records in that year carrying a gaming tag.

Year Rounds Companies Disclosed Gaming
2018 1 1 $0.5M 1
2021 33 33 $170.2M 17
2022 40 39 $1968.7M 22
2023 10 10 $82.7M 1
2024 35 33 $680.1M 9
2025 11 11 $91.0M 0
2026 2 2 $5.0M 0
No date 20 18 $869.7M 6

The shape of this portfolio is 2 waves. 73 of the 152 records are dated 2021 or 2022, 39 of them carrying a gaming tag, which is the GameFi cycle. Then 2023 drops to 10 records, 2024 comes back at 35 with AI and base layers instead of studios, and the 13 records dated 2025 or 2026 carry no gaming tag at all. The disclosed totals for each year count every priced record in that year, so the 2022 row includes both $450.0M entries discussed in the data note.

The 13 most recent rounds NAUT records

Company Round Date Amount
Seed Oct 2026 $5.0M
Strategic Sep 2026 No amount stored
Strategic round Nov 2025 $7.0M
Strategic round Oct 2025 $5.0M
Seed round Sep 2025 $6.9M
Seed and Series A rounds Sep 2025 $33.0M
Funding round Jul 2025 $3.6M
Pre-seed round Jun 2025 $4.0M
Funding round Jun 2025 $3.1M
Seed round Apr 2025 $10.0M
Private round Apr 2025 No amount stored
Funding round Mar 2025 $16.0M
Seed round Feb 2025 $2.3M

These are the rows to open first if the job is a warm path into a team that is currently spending: 11 of the 13 disclose a size, and 8 of the 13 sit at $7.0M or below, which is seed territory where a founder still answers direct messages.

Animoca Brands portfolio companies by sector

Every one of the Animoca Brands investments below links to its NAUT page, which lists its team, its rounds and the other funds on its cap table. "Rows" is the number of stored round records, so a company with 2 records of 1 round shows 2. "Disclosed" sums each distinct amount once per company, and "Latest round" is the most recent round NAUT holds for it.

Gaming (48 companies)

Studios, game platforms and guilds, the group with the most companies and the oldest rounds here.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $450.0M Equity Round, Mar 2022
1 $450.0M No date stored
2 $200.0M Series C, Mar 2022
1 $46.0M Funding Round, Aug 2022
1 $46.0M Funding Round, Jan 2022
1 $37.0M No date stored
2 $33.0M Funding Round, Jan 2022
1 $30.0M Funding Round, Sep 2024
2 $15.5M Equity Round, May 2024
1 $15.0M Seed Round, May 2022
1 $15.0M Private Round, Mar 2022
1 $15.0M Seed and Private Rounds, Dec 2021
1 $13.0M No date stored
1 $10.5M Seed and Private Rounds, Feb 2022
1 $10.5M Seed and Private Rounds, Feb 2022
1 $10.0M Funding Round, Mar 2021
1 $10.0M Private A Round, Mar 2024
1 $8.5M Pre-Series A, Oct 2021
2 $8.3M Seed Token Round, Jun 2022
1 $8.3M Seed Round, Oct 2021
1 $8.0M Seed Round, Feb 2024
1 $8.0M Funding Round, Jan 2022
1 $6.1M Funding Round, Dec 2021
1 $6.0M Seed Round, Nov 2021
1 $5.5M Seed Round, Jan 2022
1 $5.0M Funding Round, May 2024
1 $4.8M Seed Round, Dec 2022
1 $4.5M Funding Round, May 2022
1 $4.5M Seed Round, Jun 2022
1 $4.1M Seed Round, Sep 2021
1 $4.0M Private Round, Feb 2022
1 $4.0M Seed Round, Sep 2021
1 $4.0M Series A, Jun 2021
1 $3.6M Pre-Series A, Aug 2024
1 $3.6M Funding Round, Jul 2021
1 $3.0M Funding Round, Apr 2024
1 $2.7M Funding Round, Sep 2021
1 $2.5M Private Round, May 2022
1 $2.0M Seed Round, Feb 2022
1 $2.0M Private Round, Mar 2021
1 $2.0M No date stored
1 $1.9M Seed and Private Rounds, Sep 2021
1 $1.7M No date stored
1 $1.7M Seed Round, Mar 2022
1 $1.5M Funding Round, Oct 2021
1 $1.2M Private Round, Feb 2021
1 $1.0M Private Round, Apr 2021
1 $0.5M Funding Round, Oct 2018

AI (15 companies)

Compute, data and agent teams, 13 of the 20 round records dated 2024 or later.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
2 $75.0M Seed Round, Nov 2024
2 $72.0M Series A, Feb 2022
1 $40.0M Funding Round, Aug 2022
1 $33.0M Seed and Series A Rounds, Sep 2025
1 $30.0M Series A, Mar 2024
4 $15.5M Seed Round, Oct 2024
1 $15.0M Series A, May 2022
1 $10.0M Pre-Series A, Sep 2024
1 $9.0M Pre-Series A, Jul 2023
1 $6.0M Strategic Round, Nov 2024
1 $5.0M Pre-Seed Round, Dec 2024
1 $4.0M Strategic Round, Feb 2024
1 $3.6M Funding Round, Jul 2025
1 - No date stored
1 - Seed Round, Apr 2024

DeFi (15 companies)

Lending, yield, stablecoin and money market teams.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $100.0M Series B, Apr 2024
2 $30.0M Funding Round, Mar 2024
1 $14.0M No date stored
1 $10.0M Seed Round, Apr 2025
1 $8.0M Seed Round, Apr 2024
1 $6.0M Seed Round, Apr 2022
1 $5.5M Seed Round, Sep 2021
1 $5.0M Private Round, Jan 2022
1 $5.0M Strategic Round, Oct 2025
1 $4.5M Seed Round, Oct 2021
1 $2.7M Seed Round, Nov 2022
1 $2.5M No date stored
1 $0.9M Seed Round, Feb 2021
1 - Seed Round, May 2023
1 - Strategic, Sep 2026

Layer 1, 2 and 3 (8 companies)

Base layers and rollups.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $225.0M Funding Round, Apr 2024
2 $33.0M No date stored
2 $23.5M Series A, Apr 2024
1 $6.0M Seed Round, Aug 2024
1 $4.6M Private Round, Dec 2024
1 $4.3M Seed Round, May 2021
1 $4.0M Pre-Seed Round, Jun 2025
1 $3.3M Bridge Round, May 2024

Infrastructure (8 companies)

Scaling, messaging and data layers, and the highest median round on this page at $21.4M.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $450.0M Funding Round, Feb 2022
1 $135.0M Series A Extension, Mar 2022
1 $30.0M No date stored
1 $24.0M Private Investment Rounds, Sep 2023
1 $18.9M Private Round, Mar 2021
1 $7.0M Seed Round, Mar 2023
1 $6.0M Strategic Round, May 2024
1 $4.2M Funding Round, Dec 2023

SocialFi (5 companies)

Social and creator apps.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $7.5M Seed Round, Jul 2021
1 $5.6M Presale Round, Jul 2022
1 $5.0M No date stored
2 $4.0M Funding Round, Jun 2024
1 - Private Round, Apr 2025

DePIN (2 companies)

Physical infrastructure networks.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $15.0M Pre-launch Round, Mar 2024
1 $3.1M Funding Round, Jun 2025

Other sectors (21 companies)

The 21 companies whose first NAUT tag is a smaller one, from real-world assets to prediction markets.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
1 $300.0M Series D, Apr 2022
2 $45.0M Funding Round, Jul 2022
2 $16.0M Funding Round, Mar 2025
1 $12.5M Series A, Oct 2024
1 $12.0M Funding Round, Apr 2024
1 $12.0M Funding Round, Dec 2021
1 $11.0M Series A Extension, Oct 2024
1 $10.0M Funding Round, Jun 2024
1 $10.0M Funding Round, Jun 2024
1 $7.0M Strategic Round, Nov 2025
1 $6.9M Seed Round, Sep 2025
1 $6.0M Private Round, Sep 2021
1 $5.0M Seed, Oct 2026
1 $5.0M Pre-Series A, Jan 2022
1 $4.8M Seed and Private Rounds, Dec 2021
1 $4.5M Seed Round, Mar 2022
1 $4.5M Seed Round, Jun 2021
2 $4.0M Funding, Jun 2024
1 $3.6M Funding Round, Feb 2022
1 $2.3M Seed Round, Feb 2025
1 $1.0M Seed Round, Mar 2023

No sector tag (13 companies)

13 companies NAUT holds with no sector tag, so read each page for what the team does.

Company Rows Disclosed Latest round
2 $18.3M Series A, Apr 2022
1 $12.0M Private Round, Jan 2023
1 $10.0M Seed Round, Dec 2023
1 $9.0M Seed Round, Apr 2022
1 $7.5M Seed Round, Jun 2022
1 $6.0M Funding Round, Jan 2022
1 $5.0M Private Round, Apr 2022
1 $5.0M Funding Round, Sep 2021
1 $4.0M No date stored
1 $3.9M Private Round, Mar 2021
1 $3.0M Seed Round, Nov 2021
1 $2.1M Seed Round, May 2024
1 $1.2M Strategic Round, Feb 2021

Who invests alongside Animoca Brands?

NAUT records 422 other firms across these 152 round records, and 143 of the 152 have at least 1 co-investor on NAUT's record. Ranked by rounds shared with an Animoca row.

Firm Rounds Largest Median
21 , $46.0M $4.8M
19 , $450.0M $8.3M
18 , $46.0M $8.0M
17 , $100.0M $10.5M
15 , $450.0M $8.0M
15 , $40.0M $8.5M
13 , $25.0M $8.3M
12 , $15.0M $7.5M
12 , $225.0M $8.3M
12 , $15.0M $5.0M
12 , $30.0M $4.5M

The repeat names are gaming-cycle funds and exchange arms, and 2 of the top 11 are themselves projects on NAUT rather than funds, HashKey Group and YieldGuild. A founder who wants an Animoca round can read this table as the room Animoca usually sits in.

What this tells a BD team

  • The addressable list is 135 companies, and 48 of them are game studios or game platforms, so a product that sells to studios has one place to start.
  • 15 companies were backed more than once by an Animoca row, from 0G ($35.0M pre-seed then $40.0M seed) to Puffer Finance and Polyhedra. A second cheque is the strongest signal in this dataset that the relationship is live.
  • Recency beats size for outreach. 48 round records are dated 2024 or later, and those teams still have budget, while a 2021 studio round is 5 years old.
  • 91 of the 135 companies have a live token, which usually means a community, a treasury and a listings or market-making need.
How a BD team works this list
  1. Pick the 2024 to 2026 rows48 of the 152 round records are dated 2024 or later, from Monad at $225.0M to PERPTools at $5.0M.
  2. Open the company pageEach NAUT page lists the team, so Immutable X shows Robbie Ferguson as co-founder.
  3. Work the co-investors422 other firms sit on these rounds, Morningstar Ventures on 21 of them, which is a warm path to the company.
  4. Unlock the channelVerified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan.

What this tells a founder raising now

  • Median round in this set is $6.0M across 141 priced rounds, so an Animoca-sized round is usually single-digit millions, not a mega round. The 8 infrastructure companies are the exception at a $21.4M median.
  • Sector fit has moved. 39 of the 73 rounds dated 2021 or 2022 carry a gaming tag, and 0 of the 13 dated 2025 or 2026 do, while AI, decentralized exchanges and real-world assets show up instead.
  • Animoca rarely arrives alone. 143 of the 152 records have at least 1 co-investor on NAUT's record, so a pitch that already carries Morningstar Ventures, The Spartan Group or Shima Capital is pitching into a familiar syndicate.
  • NAUT's rows carry no lead flag for any Animoca round, so plan for Animoca as a participant and line up a lead separately.
How a founder uses this page
  1. Check the sector tableGaming is 48 companies, AI is 15, DeFi is 15, so a pitch should say which of those rooms it sits in.
  2. Price the askThe median priced round here is $6.0M, and infrastructure rounds run to a $21.4M median.
  3. Find the syndicateMorningstar Ventures shares 21 of these rounds and The Spartan Group 19.
  4. Reach the peopleThe Animoca Brands page lists 38 people on its team, with the channels NAUT holds on each.

How to reach the decision makers

The fastest route into any company on this page is its own NAUT page, which lists the team with the channels NAUT holds for each person. The Animoca Brands page itself lists 38 people on team. Named founders on some of the biggest rounds in this set:

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion. NAUT holds a team list for 37 of the 135 companies in this set, so the other 98 pages carry the round and the backers without a named person yet.

Related reading on NAUT: OKX Ventures portfolio: 121 companies, average round $9.6M and Crypto co-investors: 3 steps, 168 on 66 rounds for 1 fund.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes, and it takes 2 calls because NAUT holds the group under 2 rows with investments: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/animoca-ventures returns that row's 45 investments, each with the company, roundType, amountUsd, announceDate and isLead, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/animoca-brands returns the parent company record with its team. Each data call costs 5 credits, so the pair is 10 of the 3,000 credits on the $49 Essential plan, with the parameters documented at https://naut.so/docs/api and the plans at https://naut.so/pricing. A person's verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial at https://naut.so and reveal the channel on the founder you want.

Animoca Brands portfolio FAQ

Which companies has Animoca Brands invested in?

NAUT records 135 companies backed by an Animoca Brands row as of 2 November 2026, across 152 round records dated between October 2018 and October 2026. The largest rounds in that set went to ApeCoin and Yuga Labs ($450.0M), Polygon ($450.0M), OneFootball ($300.0M), Monad ($225.0M) and Immutable X ($200.0M), and by count the portfolio leans on gaming (48 companies), AI (15) and DeFi (15).

How many companies are in the Animoca Brands portfolio?

135 on NAUT's record, read on 2 November 2026, counted across the 3 live Animoca rows: the Animoca Brands page shows 126 investments, the Animoca Brands (Ventures) page shows 45, and Animoca Brands Japan shows 0. Animoca publishes a larger number of its own, so read 135 as the part of the portfolio NAUT has in its database rather than the firm's full history.

How much does Animoca Brands invest in a round?

Across the 141 priced rounds in NAUT's set, the median round was $6.0M and the mean $25.8M, measured between October 2018 and October 2026. Those are whole-round sizes rather than Animoca's own cheque, and the median by group runs from $5.0M in gaming to $21.4M in infrastructure.

Does Animoca Brands lead rounds?

NAUT records no lead flag on any of the 171 backer rows held by the 3 Animoca rows, so every round on this page is recorded as joined. That is a gap in NAUT's record rather than a statement about the firm: the sources for the biggest rounds here name other leads, including Sequoia Capital India on Polygon's $450.0M and Framework Ventures on Berachain's $100.0M Series B.

Where can I find the founders of these 135 companies and their contact channels?

On NAUT. Each of the 135 company pages lists the team NAUT holds, 37 of them have at least 1 named person today, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug> returns a company with its team for 5 credits. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial at https://naut.so to reveal the channel on the person you want.

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