📢 Morningstar Ventures Strengthens Partnership With Moralis To Support Web3 InnovationWe are thrilled to announce our latest partnership with long-time peer Moralis.By joining their Ecosystem of Investors program, builders of the chain have the opportunity to pitch us their projects for potential funding.

Apply on the platform, and if a project interests us, our team will contact you.

Read more about the partnership ➡️ here

✉️ MARCH NEWSLETTERWe publish a monthly newsletter covering the most important events within the Morningstar Ventures ecosystem, including upcoming Twitter Space, 37xDubai updates, and more.
Learn more about our latest initiatives in thelatest March edition *➡️ hereOr subscribe to the newsletter ➡️*** here

📖 FOUNDER STORIES: Frank Ma - UltiverseDeep dive into our latest interview with Frank Ma, CEO of our portfolio company Ultiverse. Learn more about this exciting AAA social gaming metaverse, and how it is connecting Web3 with VR while developing the first-of-its-kind Metaverse-based economic system (MetaFi).

Read the full interview: ➡️**** here

CryptoOasis Ecosystem Night In Dubai 💫

Last week our Morningstar Ventures team got together to celebrate the Ecosystem Night of the CryptoOasis community.

It's great to see how digital assets keep being more widely accepted and adopted here in the United Arab Emirates. Bringing founders, creators and corporates together is the best way to develop conversations that push the wider ecosystem forward.

💰 **NEW INVESTMENT

Avalon Corp Announces $13M Investment Round To Launch New Digital Universe**

Florida-based company Avalon Corp has recently secured $13M in funding to create a AAA Web3 gameworld. Among investors: Bitkraft Ventures, Hashed, Delphi Digital, and Mechanism Capital (leading the round), together with Coinbase Ventures, Yield Guild Games, Morningstar Ventures, Merit Circle, and Avocado Guild.

Founded by video game industry veterans with experience at Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Blizzard, and Sony, Avalon’s flagship product has already captured great interest.

Avalon Corp CEO Sean Pinnock states: "At Avalon we are creating an interoperable universe for creators to build the content of their dreams. And [in] our vision of something like a—not metaverse—we imagine that to build such a thing is incredibly challenging and in fact impossible for a single company to do it." Read the full announcement: ➡️here Learn more about Avalon Corp: ➡️here

🔬 PROJECT REVIEW: Cantina RoyalePlacing both players and gameplay at the forefront is Cantina Royale - a free-to-play play-and-earn action-packed blockchain mobile game. The game's easy-to-use onboarding and bridging between the best of Web2 and Web3 technologies fuels their mission to onboard the next wave of gamers onto Web3. This month we're covering Cantina Royale in our latest Project Review. Read the full review ➡️**** here

📖 FOUNDER STORIES: Gabby Dizon - Yield Guild GamesDiscover what Yield Guild Games (YGG) Co-Founder Gabby Dizon has to say about building a successful gaming guild and the future of blockchain gaming in our latest interview.

With the aim of helping people get started in NFT games, YGG has become the largest decentralized network of gaming guilds focused on blockchain games and Web3 education.

Read the full interview: ➡️ here

🎙️ MSV PODCAST: #14 Episode is Out

Tune in to our latest Podcast with Covalent's Co-Founder Ganesh Swami, and learn more about DeFi, blockchain indexing, and the growing role of AI on the blockchain.

Full episode: ➡️here

📖 FOUNDER STORIES: Per Fredrik Pellek & Harley Swann - Domi Online

Don't miss our latest interview with Per Fredrik Pellek and Harley Swann, co-founders of Domi Online, the blockchain MMORPG taking place in a unique medieval fantasy world that combines old-school combat mentality with modern-day graphics.

Read the full interview: ➡️here

FAST COMPANY FEATURES 37XDUBAI 💫

We recently announced 37xDubai, a space where Art and Technology come together to create the most unique expressions of creativity. We have already invested $5M in our initiative and are working hard to open our doors to the public soon.

As exciting as it sounds, our project has already captured the attention of several world leading business media brands. Among them, the tech media outlet Fast Company released an exciting publication about 37xDubai, which includes an interview with CEO Clemence Cazeau and Co-Founder Danilo S. Carlucci.

Read the full article: ➡️here