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The Metaverse represents a highly interactive 3D virtual world. Like the real world, users can trade land, buildings, and other digital assets in the Metaverse and explore the space using their personalized avatars. It is a shared virtual space that is interactive, immersive, and hyper-realistic. The metaverse will likely infiltrate every sector in some way or the other in the coming years, with the market opportunity estimated at over $1 trillion in yearly revenues. Here is the list of the top 10 venture capitalists that have invested and are still investing huge capital into metaverse projects.
Hiro Capital: Hiro Capital is the big beast of European metaverse investment. It has also launched a special purpose acquisition company and is looking to take a games company with an enterprise value of between €400m and €2bn onto the stock market.
Animoca: Animoca is so interested in the blockchain industry spanning into the metaverse. It launched Sandbox which is one of the most successful metaverse products out there. It raised $359M to build an open metaverse this year.
OMERS Ventures: Omers Ventures is a generalist fund that has only recently come around to the idea of investing in areas like gaming and crypto. They think about the metaverse and gaming as the next stage of the internet and social media.
Play Ventures: Play Ventures is a big player in the venture capital world especially as it relates to blockchain. The global company set aside $75m for the development of blockchain gaming. This will run off on the metaverse.
FOV Ventures: FOV Ventures, is a fund specializing in early-stage metaverse startups. They are also looking at startups in the enterprise metaverse either virtual meetings or digital twins for factories. The third area for investment will be startups creating the tools for the metaverse: the platforms, avatars, sound effects, and backdrops.
Metaverse Ventures: Metaverse Ventures is to invest in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse. It believes that the community-based project is drawing a lot of attention and could become a replacement for the current social media structure of the world is having now.
IQ Capital Fund: IQ Capital, based in Cambridge, is a deep-tech specialist fund and has invested in startups like Virti, which offers virtual reality training for companies. It will also look at other metaverse tools, for example, technologies for enabling advertising in the metaverse.
GameFi Capital: GameFi Capital will be achieved by mitigating investment risks in the blockchain space for investors, and helping with research and analysis, especially for crypto and gaming projects in the blockchain industry.
Outlier Ventures: Outlier uses a very unique and deliberate way to invest in the world of the metaverse. This process makes these individuals become co-investors in projects that Outlier is going in for. Contributions include mentoring founders and team members of projects, financial inclusion, business development processes, and more.
Amadeus Capital Partners: Amadeus Capital Partners is a metaverse skeptic that virtual reality headset-related metaverse experiences will only ever appeal to a subset of the population. Amadeus is also interested in tool makers and recently invested in V7, a machine vision startup that allows users to rapidly tag people and objects in videos.
