Softbank Set to Invest $150 Million in Female Dominated Metaverse Project Zepeto
Softbank, a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding firm is reportedly the most recent to hitch the Metaverse mania. The agency is reportedly in talks to take a position $150 million within the South Korean Metaverse platform Zepeto, as per a report in WSJ.
*SoftBank to Make investments $150 Million Into Metaverse Platform Zepeto, Corporations Say
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) November 30, 2021
Zepeto is taken into account one of many fastest-growing Metaverse platforms in South Asia boasting 2 million day by day customers. The platform permits customers to construct a digital avatar by merely scanning a photograph and roaming within the metaverse whereas interacting with different customers. 70% of the platform customers are feminine between the age of 13-24 years, making it one of many uncommon platforms dominated by feminine customers.
“We’re in all probability the world’s largest digital trend market,” mentioned Rudy Lee, the chief technique officer at Naver Z Corp., a subsidiary of the South Korean web big that operates Zepeto.
Zepeto reported 47 million customers on its platform of their quarter making it one of many busiest metaverse platforms. Softbank’s $150 million funding would give it a valuation of over $1 billion, making it one of many early metaverse unicorns. Other than Softbank, the Sequence B funding spherical noticed participation from South Korea’s HYBE Co. the agency that manages the favored Ok-pop group BTS is about to take a position almost $41 million into the metaverse platform.
Metaverse Tasks on the Rise
Metaverse has change into the most recent breakout use case from the crypto universe and main mainstream monetary companies are exhibiting nice curiosity within the ecosystem. Fb, the social media big, whose first crypto enterprise failed earlier than beginning has gone by means of an enormous rebranding and can be generally known as Meta.
Metaverse tokens equivalent to Sandbox (SAND) and Decentraland (MANA) had been among the many prime gainers in November. SAND and MANA rose 10X and 7X respectively over the previous 30-days, at a time when nearly all of the crypto market was in purple and misplaced almost 20% of their valuation to bears.
