Koi Labs Secured $2.6 Million in Pre-A Funding Round to Unlock the Next-Generation GameFi and Metaverse Economy

5 min readNov 1, 2021

Indubitably, GameFi and Metaverse have been the most popular concepts of 2021 and probably in the years to come, in crypto or not. These concepts are so intriguing and expansive that people begin to take them as the starting point of the next millennia narrative. Within this booming, or even chaotic environment lies countless opportunities. In the 3rd quarter only, NFT sales surged to $10.7 billion, up more than eightfold from the previous quarter.

Koi Labs is creating new kinds of virtual assets on Blockchain.

Certainly we are the true Metaverse believers and builders who have strong motivation to unlock the Next-Gen GameFi Metaverse Economies. In Metaverse powered by Blockchain, we have seen the following core disruptive innovations:

Blockchain infrastructure leads to the property rights revolution. With blockchain, we can imagine a world in which contracts are embedded in digital code and stored in transparent, shared databases so that everyone could have the real ownership of properties.
Non-Fungible Token (NFT) changes the types and rules of games. NFT is a new form of unique digital asset designed to show someone has ownership of a unique virtual asset. It will become a new trend of virtual assets for creating, trading and collecting.
Tokenization and crypto creates brand-new business models. Crypto unlocks new rules of business models in game, like the concept of “Play-to-Earn” which created new types of jobs and professions in digital Metaverse economies.

In our minds, if the Metaverse revolution is coming, it should be much more than a phenomenon. And Koi Labs plans to realize that. With time, we believe you will witness us unfolding the power of a complete ecosystem, a self-circulating economy, and upon that, a fun game where you can play to earn and trade to earn.

$2.6 Million Secured in Pre-A Funding Round

We are thrilled to announce Koi Labs has secured $2.6 Million in Pre-A Funding successfully.

With this incredible news, we are happy and honored to share with you that the funds we raised are all coming from some of the most renowned venture capital firms and communities in the crypto space.

We believe these names and the people behind them can help us take our idea and project it onto the world stage, on which it takes industry expertise, a network of established contacts, and enough finance to develop our idea from seed funding to long-term growth.

The fund raised will be used to explicitly kick off and fuel the exponential growth of Koi Metaverse, whose mission is to unlock the next-generation GameFi and Metaverse economy.

Without further ado, let us introduce to you the backers and believers of Koi Metaverse.

Proud Key Backers

AU21 Capital

AU21 Capital was founded by Chandler Guo and Kenzi Wang in 2017 with the mission of backing the most promising blockchain entrepreneurs and providing founders with resources and connections to succeed.

Titans Ventures

Titans Ventures is an investment fund and incubator that specializes in the crypto space. As Vietnam’s top Incubator, it has connections with more than 10 communities, with +100.000 members around the world. In their 5 years of operations, more than 160 successful projects joined hands with Titans Ventures.

ZBS Capital

ZBS Capital is a VC fund dedicated to build a decentralized world together. It started in 2017 with an ICO boom and continues nowadays. They have assembled the right team from all over the world with diverse experience in blockchain, marketing and finance to support promising early-stage projects & companies with finance and advisory help.

X21 Digital

X21 Digital is a Blockchain Advisory and Investment firm dedicated to helping mainly blockchain startups accelerate their growth and exposure in the industry. It focuses on giving the most optimal strategic advice and guidance, to shortcut our clients and partners’ path to success.

Maven Capital

Maven Capital prides itself on market trend research in identifying the most ambitious cryptocurrency projects revolutionizing the blockchain space. As they invest in them early, they would support them throughout their journey.

Encrypt Club

EncryptClub is the largest independent platform in the Chinese Crypto Industry, publishing an authoritative primary market rating list, and a secondary market influencer recommendation list. As the value information hub of the entire network, EncryptClub has thousands of Altcoin-trader followers. We connect influencers with investors and connect the Chinese and western crypto world.

Kyros Ventures

Kyros Ventures is a pioneer in incubating early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects in Vietnam. It is built upon the solid foundation of the Coin68 ecosystem consisting of exclusive partnerships with the top crypto entities in the Vietnamese Blockchain industry. Coin68 is a leading crypto media outlet in Vietnam with nearly 3 million page views per month.

Exnet Capital

Exnetwork Capital is an investment firm focused on funding innovation in the decentralization movement. As a hybrid hyperconnected fund, idea lab, and incubator, Exnetwork Capital has been a key ingredient in the success of numerous projects launched since 2018.

For us at Koi Labs, 2021 has truly been an exciting year. From the first introduction post on our game on September 8th — An Immersive View At Koi Metaverse, to announcing its very first Koi NFTs Genesis Collection Offering — Phase 1: Newborn, to the Opensea Official Listing & NFTs Airdrop, and the Koi Metaverse Game Development & Launch Plan — 2021 Q4, our team has been working diligently on our mission to build an immersive digital network for our communities.

About Koi Metaverse

Koi Aims to Unlock the Next-Gen GameFi Metaverse Economies by Building the Digital Collectibles Platform for Virtual GameFi NFTs on Multichains.

Koi is a next-generation infrastructure for issuing, trading, and liquifying GameFi NFTs from different chains like Ethereum, BSC and so on. It is aimed at building a Metaverse dedicated for GameFi NFT assets.