The four-time World Cup player and goalkeeper for America, Guillermo Ochoa, ventured as an investor in technological projects such as the metaverse and games of blockchain. The Altered Adventures company, a video game firm, ad the investment of one million dollars exclusively in this area in the Latin American market, with Memo as one of its partners.
Which means that the current goalkeeper of Club América will become the main partner of the fund specialized in video games since 2016, based on Silicon Valley, Altered Ventures.
Importantly, Memo has always been a fan of the video game, and now, it has committed funds for a joint investment of $ 1 million towards a strategy between public and private markets. Ochoa will invest in talent ventures and projects NFTs and video games based in Latin America, the company reported.
Ochoa believes that the video game sector is one of the fastest growing in the world of entertainment and technology. Likewise, he is convinced that much of the future will happen in investment realities, sports and videogames.
“I am very excited because I have always been a fan of video games, I have always followed technological advances, and I am very excited to be part of this group, of this fund and wonderful, spectacular things are coming”. The goalkeeper expressed in a video broadcast by Altered Adventures.
The athlete already has a history with video games
Altered Ventures assures us that we will soon experience a new boom, of the magnitude of the one experienced in the 80’s with the PC, in the 90’s with the Internet and in 2007 with mobile platforms, since video games will be the tip of the game. spear of “metaverso”.
Ochoa already has a long history with video games and technology businesses, from being the cover of the leading soccer video game for two years in 2008 and 2009, to having his own streaming channel that already has more than 200,000 subscribers. Recently, he also announced his participation in the startup largest in Mexico, the unicorn Kavak and has participated as a strategic partner in various businesses aligned with its vision and values ​​since 2019.
“It is the right moment to participate, to give a very strong push to this technology, virtual reality, metaverses, cover up applications, many great things”. Added.
For his part, Mario Valle Reyes, founder and managing partner of the Silicon Valley-based video game fund said:
“Guillermo Ochoa and Jorge Berlanga, his manager and partner, are the perfect accompaniment for the long-term trip we have planned with Altered Ventures.”
Reyes, like Ochoa, believe that a revolution very similar to the one experienced in the 80s with PCs, the Internet boom in the 90s or the massive growth in mobile platforms since 2007 is approaching.
The metaverse is itself a replica of the real world, which can be accessed through virtual reality technological devices and in which different experiences can be enjoyed with other users, from work meetings to leisure activities.
It was also announced that, among the projects in which Ochoa will invest, is the esport talent, without specifying whether this will function as a type of agency in which eSports professionals are offered different platforms to become a mark.
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