• About The New Partnership Between Brave group and Animoca Brands KK

  Brave group Inc. is a startup established in 2017 and led by Veteran entrepreneur Keito Noguchi, which currently operates the Virtual Music Agency “RIOT MUSIC” and the next generation Virtual eSports project “Vspo!”.  More recently, Brave group has launched their Metaverse platform development business that utilizes the company’s own metaverse engine, the “Brave Engine.

  Brave group has doubled down on the global development of their business and intellectual property in the last two years. In August 2021, they launched a partnership with “MyAnimeList,” one of the world’s largest anime communities.

  The following May 2022, they formed a business alliance with Billboard Indonesia, the Indonesian chapter of the worldwide music organization Billboard, and are continuing to strengthen their global alliances.

  The year 2022 has also been called the first year of Web 3.0, and while any number of startups within the Web3 space are popping up around the world and the attracting increasing attention, Brave group in anticipation of the coming Web 3.0 era was one of the first to take concrete action by distributing NFTs using sound at RIOT MUSIC’s offline online simultaneous concert “Re:Volt 2022” held in March 2022. These NFT’s were uniquely disturbed using sound.

  Animoca Brands, the parent company of Animoca Brands KK, is a Hong Kong-based Web 3.0 company investing in blockchain games, the Metaverse, DeFi, virtual currency wallets, and various other fields around the world to build a unique Web3 ecosystem.

  Animoca Brands KK was established in October 2021 by Animoca Brands in Japan as a strategic subsidiary. The company aims to help Japanese IP content holders foster a community directly in the world of the Web3 ecosystem, gain fans globally, and support traffic creation. To that end, they’ve partnered with many major publishers and other companies.

  Through this capital and business alliance, Brave Group will strengthen its Web3 initiatives and accelerate further growth of each business’ Metaverse activities, including IP production, and global expansion.

  Comment From Animoca Brands K.K. Co-Founder Kyoya Ozawa
  Helping Japan’s IP to go global is the reason why Animoca Brands KK,. was established. We are pleased to have the opportunity to invest in Brave group because we agree with their vision. We will continue to work closely with Brave group on their Web 3 strategy and support their global expansion in cooperation with the Animoca Brands group. Animoca Brands K.K. will continue to seek various investment opportunities, and will strive to build Web3 in Japan and to discover cutting edge IPs.
  We are very happy to have met a company with such ambitions as Brave group, which has given us a lot of courage to consider pursuing future business and investment opportunities in Japan. I am very happy to have met such an ambitious company like Brave Group. We will continue to do our utmost to bring Japanese IP to the world! We will continue to actively pursue our activities in Japan as Animoca Brands K.K. under the slogan of “Japanese IP to the world!

  Comment From Brave group President Keito Noguchi
  After having the good fortune to meet, we have decided to enter a capital and business partnership with Animoca Brands. With our mission to “strike 8 billion hearts,” we’re striving to become a global company operating worldwide, and so we shall focus even more on our IP endeavors and the utilization of Web3 in our operations. It’s a huge honor for us to have the chance to be able to partner with Animoca Brands, a leader in the world of Web3.
  Brave group started from zero and quickly was about to triumph producing Virtual Artists, with a track record of success despite being a late entrant to the market.Through this partnership, we hope to accelerate the global expansion of our IP and other projects within the Web 3.0 ecosystem while forging a strong alliance with Animoca Brands.

・Previous and Continuing Business & Capital Partnerships

Brave group partners with Bahtera Musik Indonesia, operator of Billboard Indonesia: https://d1g2md9ffhm20i.cloudfront.net/en/news/1063/

Brave group announces token graph marketing partnership with SUSHI TOP MARKETING: https://d1g2md9ffhm20i.cloudfront.net/en/news/1068/

Brave group raises additional US$10 million, to accelerate metaverse business, finalizing total Series C at US$18 million: https://d1g2md9ffhm20i.cloudfront.net/en/news/1299/

Brave group and Mynavi Announce Capital and Business Partnership: https://d1g2md9ffhm20i.cloudfront.net/en/news/1470/

About Animoca Brands KK:
Animoca Brands KK was established in Oct. 2021 as a strategic subsidiary of Animoca Brands, a global-facing Web3 company. Its goal is to help support Japanese intellectual property and IP holders in their global expansion of Web3.

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