Alameda Investment Portfolio Revealed: Acquires Media Equity for Millions of Dollars, Spanning across Drone and Indoor Agriculture Sectors
SBF recently attributed the bankruptcy to Alameda Research's poor investments, excessive leverage, and only realizing Alameda's huge funding gap in early November, making FTX's bankruptcy somewhat forgivable?
Meanwhile, the Financial Times released a list of Alameda's investments, with Alameda's related holding companies making illiquid investments in over 500 projects out of a portfolio of around $5.4 billion.
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Over a Billion Dollars in Investments
- Mining company Genesis Digital Assets: $1.15 billion
AI research company Anthropic: $500 million
Venture capital firm Módulo Capital: $500 million
Swiss digital asset company Digital Assets AG DAAG: $320 million
Venture capital firm K5 Global: $300 million
US stock exchange IEX: $270 million
Sequoia Capital: $200 million
Digital bank Pionic Toss: $113 million
Digital bank Dave Inc: $100 million
Unusual Projects
While most investments are related to cryptocurrency and DeFi, there are also many projects that are quite puzzling.
Military drones Brinc Drones: $40 million
Indoor farming company 80 Acres: $25 million
Fertility startup clinic Ivy Natal: $1.5 million
Legal service chatbot DoNotPay: $750,000
Weight loss drug company Equator Therapeutics: $500,000
Online entrepreneurship platform Owner: $250,000
Blockchain Media
Research institution Messari: around $1.5 million
Planet Daily ODaily: $5 million for a 25% stake
Blockchain media Blockbeats: $3.56 million for a 30% stake
Coinage parent company Trustless Media: $1.21 million
Educational startup Nas Academy: $100,000 under the famous YouTube entity "Nas Daily"
Blockchain Projects/Company Investments
Mysten Labs: $99,999,843
Aptos Series A: $74,999,941
HOLE tokens: $67,500,000
Polygon Network: $50 million
NEAR: $50 million from FTX, $30 million from Alameda
Yuga Labs: $50 million
LayerZero Labs: $40 million
Offchain Labs Arbitrum: $15 million
MobileCoin: $10 million
1 Inch: $10 million
Circle: $10 million
Starkware: $10 million
Paxos: $5 million
Mythical Games: $4 million
Blocto: $1 million
More Subsidiaries, Not Just Alameda
In addition to FTX Trading Ltd., Alameda Research LLC, Alameda Ventures Ltd., FTX also has the following related subsidiaries, through which it makes investments:
Clifton Bay Investments LLC
Cottonwood Grove Limited
Maclaurin Investments Ltd
Goodman Investments Ltd
Island Bay Ventures Inc
West Realm Shires Inc
Genesis Block
Additionally, the Financial Times noted that 12 projects with unclear investment types, totaling around $100 million, have been excluded, indicating that Alameda's total investment amount is around $5.5 billion.