Bandai Namco, Startup Investment Fund "Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund" established. Accelerate IP metaverse construction and new entrance creation

Bandai Namco Entertainment announced on April 12, Startup Investment Fund "Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund (Bandai Namco Entertainment Zero Twan Fund)".

The company starts developing metabars for each IP, as a new mechanism to connect with the fans along the medium-term plan that started from this April. In order to realize that, we are going to work together with every partner. So, through "Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund", the company has been developing the IP axis strategy and its know-how and start-up companies, and we aim to build an "IP Metaverse" and create a new entertainment.

"Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 FUND" has three investment strategies. One is "creating-Create entertainment ~". Leverage new technologies and invest in efforts to strengthen and extend existing entertainment, or to accelerate them for efforts to create new entertainment.

The second is "Delivering-deliver entertainment and connecting people ~". In order to properly connect entertainment, we will invest in technical and activities to deliver entertainment to properly connect entertainment. The third is "connected to the connection with entertainment more hot and stronger ~". The company is a prospect that the company's active area is more active in virtual space due to the spread of metaverse etc. in the near future. Among them, it is to invest in activities to make the connection between entertainment and people more heat.

Specific investment targets provide products and services related to entertainment using technology such as internally overseas block chain, VR / AR / XR, AI, etc. And so on. It is intended for companies from Preseed to Latter Stage, and it is expected to assume a year of 10 billion yen (300 million yen in three years) annually. Ticket sizes are tens of millions of yen to 500 million yen.

Bandai Namco, who has developed metabars for each IP, started to "Gundam Meta Bath Project" as the first. Gundam Metaverse Gundam Metaverse System "SIDE-G", Virtual Community for Category Values, "Space Colony" in the vast universe of virtual space, creating a place to create a place where Gundam fans around the world gather (Related article).

In recent years, Epic Games has partnered with The Lego Group (related articles), regarding the construction of metavers involved by the game company. Epic Games has also announced that it will also be invested in Sony and promote metaverse construction. Bandai Namco launched "Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 FUND" as the competition of each company increases intense. The company wants to accelerate the speed of decision making in order to build an IP metaverse mentioned above and realize the creation of new entertainment.

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