What’s Possible: 1st July, 2022

We hope you enjoy this week's hand-picked selection of important and interesting stories from the frontiers of tech.

Kylian Mbappé joins Sorare as a major investor and its first player ambassador

A French international and World Cup winner, Kylian Mbappé is widely-regarded as one of the sport's greatest talents, as well as a successful entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He will be Sorare's first player ambassador of this kind, and the deal represents the player's first entry into the Web3 space. (read)

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A world champion addition to our team.Say hello to our new Sorare Ambassador, Investor and Social Impact partner: @KMbappe 🤩Let’s change fantasy football forever.

11:00 AM ∙ Jun 29, 20222,742Likes1,054Retweets

Omeda Studios accelerates launch of Predecessor into Early Access later this year

Omeda Studios closed a $20M Series A round led by Haveli Investments, supported by existing investors GFR Fund, Progression Fund, and Possible Ventures.

“Over the past year we’ve been working together with our community to really define what a MOBA looks like in today's day and age. Having a close relationship with our community has allowed us to iterate fast and I think people are going to be extremely excited when they get their hands on the game in Early Access,” said Robbie Singh, founder and CEO of Omeda Studios. (read)

Bessemer: The antidote to cryptophobia

Bessemer Ventures lifts the veil on a debate they've been having internally between the crypto team at Bessemer Venture Partners and partner Adam Fisher on the promises and repercussions of future crypto success. (read)

Immutable X’s mission to

Co-founder of Immutable X (Possible Ventures portfolio company), Robbie Ferguson talks about being here for the long term:

“Over the next decade everything from CeFi (t-bills, term deposits, insurance, options, shares), real assets (houses, sneakers), centralized registry (IP, music) is going to be tokenized. This is the largest total addressable market that has emerged since search. Let's make sure it's truly decentralized and for the betterment of humanity.” (thread)

Robbie Ferguson ⓧ - Hiring! @0xferg

Gaming is bigger than music, movies, and TV combined. It's compounding 10% year on year.The $100bn a year spent "renting" items is going to turn into a trillion dollar ownable economy. All of it will be built on web3.

6:40 AM ∙ Jun 30, 20222,130Likes485Retweets

‍Q2 2022 Private Markets Investment Briefs

Hamilton Lane takes stock of the private markets landscape over the last quarter, highlighting the latest themes and evolving trends within a variety of sectors and strategies – all in just a couple of bullet points. (read)

Interesting adjacencies

• Waitroom: Solana Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko discusses Saga and Solana Mobile Stack (link)
• Psilocybin microdosers demonstrate greater observed improvements in mood and mental health at one month relative to non-microdosing controls (link)

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