The Sandbox Plans to Raise $400M at $4 Billion Valuation

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Last updated: 2022-04-22

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The Sandbox, an Animoca Brand Corp-owned blockchain-based online game, is looking to raise $400 million in a fresh funding round that would put its valuation at $4 billion.

The metaverse platform is in talks with new and existing investors, people familiar with the matter said.

The Sandbox is a platform built on the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to buy, sell, trade and own digital assets in a virtual world. Assets are bought and sold in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and can represent plots of land, cars, art and other property.

Among its recent users was global bank HSBC, which last month bought a plot of land in Sandbox. The bank planned to develop that virtual parcel of land to engage with sports, e-sports and gaming fans on the platform.

SAND, the platform’s native token, was priced at $2.82 at the time of writing and boasts a market capitalization of $3.27 billion, data shows.

Last November, The Sandbox, which is majority-owned by blockchain gaming firm Animoca Brands, raised $93 million in a Series B funding round that was led by SoftBank.

Aside from the potential funding round, Sebastien Borgen – co-founder and the chief operating officer of The Sandbox – recently refuted any assumptions that the company would conduct an IPO to go public.