Web3 gaming giant Animoca Brands is looking beyond games next year to expand its current portfolio of about 600 companies, says the company’s chief strategy officer, Keyvan Peymani.
“We invest in dozens of companies a year,” Bhimani said during an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “The goal, whether it’s AI or DePIN or DeFi or gaming, or any kind of new sectors and stablecoins and opportunities coming up, is to always look at how the ecosystem that we’re part of will expand.”
Gaming represents the largest category in Animoca Brands’ portfolio, with 230 of the 628 companies it has invested in related to gaming. The company pivoted heavily into gaming after its founding in 2014, investing in projects including Axie Infinity, CryptoKitties, Colossal, and Yield Guild Games.
The company has a growing amount of investment in infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and decentralized finance (DeFi).
“What we aim to do is that when something interesting and exciting happens, as is the case with stablecoins and RWAs, we will become one of the market leaders,” he explained, adding that Animoca aims to become a way for the entire retail sector to benefit from the changes happening within the Web3 ecosystem.
Animoca eyes ‘game-changing’ projects.
“You should expect us to continue to do that and continue to find those projects that we believe will be game-changers in the industry,” he said, adding that stablecoins will be a major near-term focus for the company.
Animoca founder Yat Siu told Cointelegraph on Wednesday that institutional participation will be “very important” for the next phase of growth in the cryptocurrency industry, but it will not be limited to just Bitcoin.
“It’s not going to be just the institutional side of going through bitcoin and buying some cryptocurrencies to get exposure to it. It’s going to be institutional adoption in terms of utility, because of the market structure bill,” Seo said.
On November 11, US lawmakers released a draft cryptocurrency market structure bill to indicate how crypto regulatory agencies will be divided, which the Senate is scheduled to vote on in December.
Animoca remains bullish on the gaming sector
Although Animoca is expanding into new verticals, Bhimani said gaming remains a strong priority.
“We’re still very optimistic about what’s going to happen in games and how people can really leverage their time, energy, effort and money that they spend in those games to have assets that live outside of Web3,” he said.
The third quarter of 2025 saw a 290% QoQ jump in cryptocurrency project funding, its strongest quarter since Q1 with $4.8 billion invested, Galaxy Digital reported Monday.
He stated that existing companies in the field of cryptocurrencies, especially those founded in 2018, accounted for the majority of the pooled capital, while companies founded in 2024 accounted for the largest number of deals.
Animoca Brands plans to go public on the Nasdaq next year through a reverse merger with public AI-focused fintech company Currenc Group.
