Startup Sky Mavis, which owns the hot game Axie Infinity, has successfully called for $ 152 million in Serie B round, valuing the company is “rumored” to $ 3 billion.

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Recently, the startup Sky Mavis – the owner of the game Axie Infinity announced that it has received 152 million investment from the world’s leading investment funds in the Series B round.

“Today, we’re excited to welcome a group of the world’s top investors to join our amazing community.

Funding from this new round of funding allows us to drive the revolution in NFT gaming, attract the world’s top talent in the industry, expand the infrastructure to support our growth strategy, and build own game distribution platform, to better support game developers in the NFT game segment,” revealed Nguyen Thanh Trung – Founder and CEO of Sky Mavis.

Startup Sky Mavis sở hữu tựa game hot Axie Infinity vừa gọi thành công 152 triệu USD vòng Serie B, định giá công ty được “đồn đoán” lên tới 3 tỷ USD - Ảnh 1.

According to information from two knowledgeable people shared with The Information, the value of Sky Mavis after this funding round is up to nearly 3 billion USD. Sky Mavis side did not disclose anything more about the percentage of shares of new investors.

This round was led by A16Z Crypto and joined by Paradigm, Accel, and 13 other funds. In particular, the Accel fund – once invested in Facebook, Supercell and Spotify.

“As soon as we met the 3 founders of China, Aleks and Jiho, as well as learning – participating in the Axie Infinity universe, we realized one thing: clearly, Sky Mavis has the power to make a ‘revolution’ in the world. traditional gaming world as we know it.

The team is building an infrastructure that can serve the play-to-earn goal of NFT gaming and we’re excited to be with them, continuing to discover new things and break new ones. ambitious limit,” said Andrei Brasoveanu – Partner of Accel Foundation.

Startup Sky Mavis sở hữu tựa game hot Axie Infinity vừa gọi thành công 152 triệu USD vòng Serie B, định giá công ty được “đồn đoán” lên tới 3 tỷ USD - Ảnh 2.

Axie Infinity is currently the number 1 NFT game in the market.

According to the information we have, before that Sky Mavis – Axie Infinty also went through 2 rounds of fundraising.

In 2018, after ‘grading’ the 3-month accelerated training course, Saola Accelerator of 500 Startups Vietnam Investment Fund; Sky Mavis has successfully raised capital from main investor Animoca Brands and side investors such as Hashed, Pangea Blockchain Fund, ConsenSys and 500 Startups with an amount of up to 1.5 million USD.

In May 2021, Sky Mavis continued to receive another round of funding worth $7.5 million, led by Libertus Capital, a British venture capital fund. Some of the other organizations participating in the round are 500 Startups, Collab Currency, DeFi Alliance, CoinGecko Ventures and Animoca Brands.

In terms of personal investment, in addition to billionaire Mark Cuban, the shark in the American game show Shark Tank, there are Alexis Ohanian – Co-founder of Reddit and John Robinson – CEO of 100 Thieves, one of the companies. The world’s most valuable e-sports company.

After 3 rounds of fundraising, the total amount they have raised since its inception is about 215 million USD.

This startup has reached 2 million daily players, their NFT market crypto trading volume has reached a value of about 2.2 billion USD.

According to Sky Mavis, Axie Infinity is still the world’s No. 1 game in the NFT segment, with the following achievements: they just added 38,000 new players in August 2020, bringing the total number of daily players to numbers. 2 million; more than 2 million wallets and $4.5 billion worth of coins are still locked on Ronin – their own Ethereum side chain; This startup also donated $100 million in AXS coins to 10,000 founding community members.

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Source : Genk