{"id":66155,"date":"2022-08-22T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66155"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:52:09","slug":"invesco-to-launch-fund-for-metaverse-ecosystem-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/invesco-to-launch-fund-for-metaverse-ecosystem-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Invesco to launch fund for metaverse ecosystem investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invesco, one of the largest investment firms in the United States, has announced the launch of a fund to invest in companies focused on virtual worlds, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentweek.co.uk\/news\/4055057\/invesco-launches-metaverse-fund\">Investment Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the Invesco Metaverse Fund was not disclosed. It will focus on seven key areas:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>operational and next-generation computing systems;<\/li>\n<li>hardware and devices enabling access to the metaverse;<\/li>\n<li>networks for hyperconnectivity;<\/li>\n<li>AI-powered immersive platforms;<\/li>\n<li>blockchain;<\/li>\n<li>means of exchange enabling functional interoperability;<\/li>\n<li>services and assets that facilitate the digitisation of the real economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It is estimated that by 2030, virtual and augmented reality could contribute \u00a31.4 trillion to the global economy,&#8221; said Tony Roberts, one of the fund&#8217;s managers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In November 2021, Invesco <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/invesco-secures-listing-for-a-physically-backed-bitcoin-etp-on-deutsche-borse\">announced the addition<\/a> of Xetra from the Deutsche B\u00f6rse group to the listing of a physically backed Bitcoin ETP.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/invesco-abandons-plans-for-bitcoin-futures-etf-ahead-of-proshares-launch-of-a-similar-product\">rejected<\/a> launching a Bitcoin-futures-based ETF on the eve of the launch of a similar product <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/trading-starts-for-proshares-first-us-bitcoin-futures-etf\">from ProShares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2022, former Binance executives Lina Zhang and Wayne Fu<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/former-binance-executives-launch-a-100-million-fund-focused-on-metaverses\"> created a $100 million multi-strategy fund focused on the metaverses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invesco, one of the largest US investment firms, announced the launch of a fund to invest in companies focused on virtual worlds, according to Investment Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1773,1353,1133,1361],"class_list":["post-66155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-invesco","tag-metaverses","tag-venture-investments","tag-virtual-world-innovations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66157,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155\/revisions\/66157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}