Yat Siu

Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, and Managing Director at Animoca Brands · Joined 2014

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Biography

Yat Siu is co-founder, Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Animoca Brands. His biography on the company's own leadership page states that he started his career in technology at Atari Germany in 1990, moved to Hong Kong in 1995 to establish Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, set up Outblaze in 1998, sold Outblaze's messaging unit to IBM in 2009 and pivoted Outblaze into an incubator, and that Animoca Brands was one of the companies it incubated, created in 2014. He set up the Dalton Learning Lab in 2017 and founded ThinkBlaze, the research arm of Outblaze. The same page states that Animoca Brands "has invested in over 600 companies and projects related to digital assets", and lists among his recognitions Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards, and inclusion in the Cointelegraph top 100 notable people in blockchain. He is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra. He is the public face of the company's investment activity but Animoca Brands does not identify him as holding a partner title in any fund vehicle.

Previous Experience

Board Seats

Career Timeline

1990
Starts his career in technology working for Atari Germany.
1995
Moves to Hong Kong to establish Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, described on the company's site as the first free web page and email provider in Asia.
1998
Sets up Outblaze, a provider of multilingual white label web services.
2009
Sells Outblaze's messaging unit to IBM and pivots Outblaze into an incubator of digital entertainment projects and companies.
2014
Animoca Brands is created as one of the companies incubated by Outblaze.
2017
Sets up the Dalton Learning Lab, an afterschool digital lab.
2018
Begins advocating blockchain as a means for users to own their virtual assets, data and equity, per his own company biography.

Sources & References

Animoca Brands - Leadership and Board of Directors (official page, checked 6 Sep 2026) ↗Animoca Brands - Who we are ↗Animoca Brands - Announcements and news coverage index (checked 6 Sep 2026) ↗