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ORIGIN Innovation Awards 2021: Startup Winners – EduTech and Gaming & Esports

We are thrilled to announce the Startup Winners - EduTech and Startup Winners - Gaming & Esports for the second edition of the ORIGIN Innovation Awards.

London: A global hub for games [BEYOND Virtual Panel recap]

London has features that make it a very appealing destination for investments in the gaming industry. The tax incentives offered by the government are just one of them. There are many other reasons why investors continue to support gaming development in London and the UK as a whole. Even Asian gaming companies have been investing in London gaming companies…

Gamers are making a living from play-to-earn: Here’s how to get started [Podcast]]

Compared to traditional video games, NFT games offer more to players by allowing them to truly own their game assets. This is the opposite in traditional games, where the game makers in fact own the player’s items. The play-to-earn model is flipping that around, where players now truly own their NFT game assets. 

Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands and South Korea’s Cube Entertainment form joint venture for K-pop music metaverse and NFTs

Animoca Brands and Cube Entertainment (Cube Ent) announced a joint venture for the purposes of building a music metaverse, and issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and ecosystem tokens based on the intellectual property rights of Cube Ent’s globally popular K-pop music artists and actors.

Thailand NFT platform GuildFi raises $6M seed financing from DeFiance, Capital and Hashed to create an interoperable Metaverse

GuildFi is developing a Web3 infrastructure to connect games, NFTs, and communities, with an aim to maximize players' benefits and enable interoperability across the metaverse.

Hong Kong-based gaming platform The Sandbox raises $93M funding led by SoftBank to grow its open NFT metaverse

The investment will enable the company team to scale the platform’s growth as a prime entertainment destination where brands, IPs, and celebrities can engage with their fans through virtual experiences including games, live performances, and social experiences.

UK AdTech Admix raises $25M Series B for APAC expansion, looks to scale as the content monetization layer for the metaverse

The funding will be used to scale up its In-Play solution worldwide and establish the company as the content monetization layer for the metaverse

Vietnam blockchain game studio Sipher raises $6.8M Seed round to develop its upcoming World of Sipheria game

Sipher is fostering an ecosystem where people can play for fun while also being rewarded for their time spent in-game. By leveraging blockchain technology, Sipher is bringing economic freedom to gamers and providing the community with ownership of in-game assets which directly contributes to the growth and success of the gaming industry.

Philippines: Southeast Asia’s next big breakout market?

TechNode Global’s series on the Philippines will delve into why now, after years of depending on income from remittances, Filipino entrepreneurs and founders are attracting venture capital (VC) money in droves. In this first part, we briefly explain the key growth drivers and opportunities awaiting VCs in the country, while laying the groundwork for future…

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Singapore’s Sea aims to raise $6.3B in share & convertible bond sale

The company plans to use the net proceeds from the offerings for business expansion and other general corporate purposes, including potential strategic investments and acquisitions.