总部位于新加坡的机构投资者 NGC Ventures 专注于为基于区块链的项目提供风险投资，宣布一个专门用于 Web3 项目的新生态系统基金，并强调投资者对推动去中心化互联网的初创公司的需求增加。
该公司的第三支区块链基金 NGC Metaverse Ventures 从投资者那里筹集了 1 亿美元，希望帮助整个行业的项目建设和启动。参与投资者包括 Babel Finance、Huobi Ventures、Nexo Ventures、Altonomy 和 GBIC。
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NGC Ventures 的普通合伙人 Roger Lim 表示，该基金将向 Web3 经济中的“高潜力项目”分配资金。
NGC 表示，Web3 基金会周三已经投资了三家初创公司。
NGC Ventures 成立于 2017 年，是一家区块链和金融科技风险投资公司，是 Solana、Algorand 和 Oasis 的早期投资者。
Web3 和 Metaverse 项目引起了风险投资界的极大兴趣。自 4 月中旬以来，风险投资公司已承诺向这些项目投资近 30 亿美元。特别是，硅谷 VC Andreessen Horowitz 拥有发起了一项 6 亿美元的 基金，致力于 Web3 经济中的游戏初创公司。
选定的项目将受益于专家的意见，并可以接触主要的行业影响者、启动平台、做市商和交易所。
本周在瑞士达沃斯举行的世界经济论坛年会上，关于 Web3 经济的讨论很多。 Polkadot (DOT) 创始人 Gavin Wood 在接受 Cointelegraph 独家采访时表示，Web3 的发展令人鼓舞，因为这意味着人们正在看到这种底层技术如何用于加密以外的不同应用程序。
2022 年第一季度，不同区块链领域的风险投资活动出现了令人瞩目的增长。风险资本在 2021 年向加密货币领域投入了超过 300 亿美元，包括基础设施、不可替代代币 (NFT)、去中心化金融 (DeFi)、中心化金融和 Web3。
2022 年将是加密风险投资又一个创纪录的一年。仅在上半年，风险投资公司就向加密货币和区块链初创公司投入了 146 亿美元，占 2021 年投资总额的 48%。
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人们使用产品需要的不仅仅是伟大的技术。不幸的是，历史上充满了没有正确的营销组合、管理和资本来成功将它们推向市场的重要产品。
因此，VC 的目标是解决这些类型的问题，不仅要投资启动项目所需的资金，还要提供可以为正确的营销战略管理组合提供解决方案的联系网络。
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