Animoca Brands Holdings Limited
Venture capital companywww.animocabrands.com
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Sep 29, 2026
Brandon ZempHOST
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Brandon ZempHOST
Today I'm joined by another wonderful guest, Kenneth Shuck, CEO at Mocha Network and Managing Director at Animoca Brands.
Brandon ZempHOST
Kenneth, welcome to the show.
Brandon ZempHOST
Happy to have you on today.
Gareth JenkinsonHOST
Yeah, beautiful.
Gareth JenkinsonHOST
My last question to you, I know, you know, Animoca Brands has a very diverse portfolio of companies and business interests.
Gareth JenkinsonHOST
Obviously, one of them, one of the big ones was Web3 gaming, you know, this kind of sector.
Gareth JenkinsonHOST
Does Mocha Chain plug into that at all? Can you talk a little bit about, you know, that specific use case or how that might interoperate with this?
Devin BeckerHOST
Hello, everyone.
Devin BeckerHOST
I'm your host, Devin Becker, and today I'm delighted to be joined by Robbie Young, CEO of Investments at Animoca Brands, as well as a little more recently, the CEO of The Sandbox.
Devin BeckerHOST
Sandbox recently announced Sandbox Studio, an AI-native game engine and publishing pipeline specifically built to take creators from ideas to live multiplayer games in hours.
Devin BeckerHOST
Today, we're going to discuss some things around that, multi-platform UGC, and what AI actually changes for creators.
Robby YungGUEST
And hello to everybody.
Robby YungGUEST
And so my name is Robbie Young.
Robby YungGUEST
I'm the CEO of investments at Animoca Brands.
Robby YungGUEST
And as you said, more recently, I've taken on responsibilities at Sandbox too, which has been, you know, our largest sort of subsidiary for many years.
Josh KriegerHOST
And it's just a sort of bond that can happen through conversations like this that really made me appreciate how special the podcast format is.
Josh KriegerHOST
And one more I'll just share is our first episode with Yatsu, the chairman of Animoca Brands.
Josh KriegerHOST
You know, embarrassingly enough, we didn't fully know who Yat was when his team invited him on the show.
Josh KriegerHOST
And we were pretty busy at that time and sort of delayed the show a little while.
Michael MetzgerGUEST
Um, yeah.
Kaylee MooreHOST
Okay, and so you've done deals with Zynga, Animoca, Reddit, Netflix, really different types of buyers.
Kaylee MooreHOST
What's the one thing that locks in a great fit when everyone's in the room and then just doesn't work once the deals close, uh, closes? I'd love to hear about some past experiences you've had.
Michael MetzgerGUEST
[lip smacks] So for us, once a deal closes-
Kaylee MooreHOST
Yeah.
Kaylee MooreHOST
[chuckles]
Michael MetzgerGUEST
And I mean, we sold Nway to Animoca.
Michael MetzgerGUEST
I think that worked out really, really well for Animoca-
Dan TapieroGUEST
Ledger is another very large one for us.
Dan TapieroGUEST
Animoca, uh, another company we really like.
Dan TapieroGUEST
Ledn, QuickNode.
Dan TapieroGUEST
These are all, you know, more developed, more mature businesses, uh, at least, you know, five years, you know, m- companies making minimum sort of fifty to a hundred million in revenue.
Andy PickeringHOST
is Kenneth Sheck.
Andy PickeringHOST
Kenneth is the CEO at Mocha Network and Managing Director at Animoca Brands.
Andy PickeringHOST
Well, welcome to the show, Kenneth.
Kenneth ShekGUEST
Thanks for having me, Andy.
Andy PickeringHOST
It would be cool if you could just introduce yourself.
Andy PickeringHOST
We'd love to hear just a little bit of your personal and professional backstory.
Andy PickeringHOST
What have you been doing in the lead up to becoming Animoca? CEO at Mocha Network and Managing Director at Animoca Brands.
Kenneth ShekGUEST
Yeah, so I've been actually building businesses and ventures in the startup space, starting from solar energy in the US and then started my first company Back in the days, it was around the Facebook days, Mark Zuckerberg and everyone was building their own businesses.
BenHOST
But that was like a few weeks.
BenHOST
Even coordinated with like Animoca.
BenHOST
It was a whole bunch of Animoca and the
Chris JourdanHOST
brands.
Chris JourdanHOST
Yeah.
Alex ScottHOST
Absolutely.
Alex ScottHOST
Okay, you alluded to it earlier, but AnchorPoint, so it's a joint venture between Standard Chartered Hong Kong, HKT and Animoca Brands, if I read correctly.
Alex ScottHOST
And it was granted one of the first HKMA stable point issuer licenses rolling out HKTAP in phases.
Alex ScottHOST
So, I mean, it sounds like you were heavily involved in that deal.