Animoca Brands计划为阿联酋初创企业建立资金

据报道，这家位于香港的面向Web3的公司的价值约为60亿美元，将在迪拜开设其第一个区域办事处

Venture capital and software company Animoca Brands is planning to set up funds for UAE start-ups as it makes its debut in the Middle East, its newly-appointed regional head has said.

新任命的区域负责人说，风险投资和软件公司Animoca Brands计划为阿联酋初创企业建立资金，因为它在中东首次亮相。

The Hong Kong-based Web3-oriented firm, which reportedly has a value of about $6 billion, will be opening its first regional office in Dubai, where it plans to bridge the gaps in financing, market access and mentorship that start-ups are facing.

据报道，这家总部位于香港的面向Web3的公司的价值约为60亿美元，将在迪拜开设首个区域办事处，该公司计划弥合初创公司面临的融资，市场准入和指导方面的差距。

Web3 is the third stage of the World Wide Web's evolution that uses the capabilities of artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain to make the internet smarter.

Web3是全球Web演变的第三阶段，它使用人工智能，机器学习和区块链的功能使互联网更聪明。

“There is definitely a high concentration of capital and investors [in the UAE], liquidity providers who are sitting on the sidelines that maybe have been burnt in the past and are waiting for an institutional grade platform to come in. So, that's where we really do see an opportunity; we will be looking to launch a liquid fund and a venture-style investing fund,” Omar Elassar, managing director for the Middle East and head of global strategic partnerships at Animoca Brands, told The National.

“There is definitely a high concentration of capital and investors [in the UAE], liquidity providers who are sitting on the sidelines that maybe have been burnt in the past and are waiting for an institutional grade platform to come in. So, that's where we really do see an opportunity; we will be looking to launch a liquid fund and a venture-style investing fund,” Omar Elassar, managing director for the Middle East and head of global strategic partnerships at Animoca品牌告诉国民。

The size of the funds have yet to be determined.

资金的规模尚未确定。

“In terms of founder enablement, we're going to be supporting some of the start-ups and the more established crypto companies [in the UAE] through investment, through ecosystem advisory and through infrastructure,” Mr Elassar said.

Elassar先生说：“就创始人的支持而言，我们将通过投资，通过生态系统咨询和通过基础设施来支持一些初创公司，以及[阿联酋​​]中更具成熟的加密公司。”

This strategy would then branch out into strategic and commercial expansion, with Animoca planning to work “with some of the corporates the government and regulators to drive high impact, real world use cases”.

然后，该策略将融入战略和商业扩展，Animoca计划“与政府的一些公司和监管机构一起开展高影响力，现实世界用例”。

Animoca, which is also a gaming company, has four major business lines aimed at start-ups – advisory, incubation, investments and institutional applications. It has investments in more than 540 companies, including in Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular blockchain game Axie Infinity.

Animoca也是一家游戏公司，拥有四个主要业务系列，旨在咨询，孵化，投资和机构应用。它对流行的区块链Axie Infinity的开发商包括Sky Mavis，包括超过540家公司的投资。

It also has a regulated stablecoin project in partnership with Standard Chartered and Hong Kong Telecom.

它还与标准特许和香港电信合作，拥有一个受管制的稳定项目。

Animoca's bookings – a measure of total sales and income generating activity – from Web3 operating businesses of subsidiaries and projects incubated by the company hit $110 million in 2024, the company reported in March.

该公司在3月报道说，Animoca的预订 - 衡量了该公司在2024年孵化的子公司和项目的Web3运营业务的衡量标准。

While that is down from the $182 million it posted in 2023, overall bookings for last year grew more than 12 per cent annually to $314 million, anchored by its digital asset advisory business that surged 114 per cent year-on-year to $165 million, it said. Investment activity, meanwhile, jumped more than 85 per cent to $39 million.

它说，虽然这与2023年$ 1.82亿美元的票房相比，去年的总预订量增长了12％以上，达到3.14亿美元，这是其数字资产咨询业务的基础，该业务的同比增长了114％，达到1.65亿美元。同时，投资活动增长了85％以上，达到3900万美元。

While Animoca's Dubai office will officially mark its entry into the Middle East, this will not be the first time it will have a footprint in the region: in October 2023, it partnered with Saudi Arabia's Neom Company for a $50 million investment to support Web3 programmes.

尽管Animoca的迪拜办公室将正式标记其进入中东的进入，但这将不是该地区第一次有足迹：2023年10月，它与沙特阿拉伯的Neom公司合作，进行了5000万美元的投资，以支持Web3计划。

The Emirates and the kingdom will be, for now, Animoca's focus, and any expansion into other countries in the region will be explored, according to Mr Elassar.

埃拉萨尔（Elassar）表示，酋长国和王国将是Animoca的重点，并且将探讨该地区其他国家的任何扩展。

“The Middle East is a big place and there are definitely other interesting markets … there's a lot of work to do [in the UAE and Saudi Arabia] for the time being – but I wouldn't take anything off the table,” he said.

他说：“中东是一个很大的地方，肯定还有其他有趣的市场……[在阿联酋和沙特阿拉伯]暂时还有很多工作要做 - 但我不会把任何东西都拿走。”

The UAE has continuously extended its support to start-ups, which are playing a key role, working to pitch and develop new ideas using the latest innovations to solve real-world problems.

阿联酋不断扩大对初创企业的支持，这些初创企业发挥了关键作用，致力于使用最新的创新来解决新的想法，以解决现实世界中的问题。

Start-ups in the Emirates raised about $619 million in 2024, second in Mena behind only Saudi Arabia's $750 million and part of an overall $1.9 billion in the region, according to Dubai-based data platform Magnitt.

根据迪拜的数据平台Magnitt的数据，阿联酋航空的初创企业在2024年筹集了约6.19亿美元，在北非仅在沙特阿拉伯的7.5亿美元之后仅次于该地区的7.5亿美元，这是该地区总计19亿美元的一部分。

“The UAE is a springboard for global business, and this market is very well positioned to influence how the Web3 industry really shapes up,” Mr Elassar said.

Elassar先生说：“阿联酋是全球业务的跳板，这个市场在影响Web3行业的真正塑造方面非常有效。”