Yat Siu co-founded Animoca Brands, a blockchain and gaming company focused on digital property rights for virtual assets, and works as its executive chairman and managing director. Yat Siu's Twitter Score is 528 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, with 165,695 followers and a rank of #290 out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform. Yat Siu ranks #290 (top 0.1%) out of 389,000+ tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Yat Siu began his career at Atari Germany, then founded Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation and founded Outblaze in 1998, building it into a digital entertainment incubator from which Animoca Brands later emerged. Animoca Brands backs more than 600 builders in digital ownership economies and holds investments in more than 540 companies. Its NFT strategy includes The Sandbox digital land and digital collectibles, as well as items from F1 Delta Time, a blockchain game that ceased operations in March 2022.
Yat Siu's company raised $65 million in October 2021 at a $2.2 billion valuation, with backers including Liberty City Ventures, Ubisoft Entertainment, Sequoia China, Dragonfly Capital, Com2Us, Kingsway Capital, 10T, Token Bay Capital, and MSA Capital. Animoca Brands was delisted from the Australian stock exchange in 2020 due to concerns over governance and the legal status of some crypto assets. As of May 2025, the company was planning a New York listing, holding nearly $300 million in cash and stablecoins and $538 million of digital assets on its balance sheet. It also launched Anchorpoint Financial as a joint venture, which participated in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority stablecoin issuer sandbox.
Yat Siu is an official member of the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development by the Hong Kong SAR government and an advisor to BAFTA, and is affiliated with the Asian Youth Orchestra. He has been active on the platform since 2008 and has published 14,549 posts. He has been mentioned by 787 accounts, with 2,963 total mentions. His tracked portfolio includes ABLO, Berachain Foundation, Chillchat Games now building Watch.fun, Life Beyond, BeraTone, Endless Clouds, Moca Network LEAP East and io.net.
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