{"id":205443,"date":"2021-03-18T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andreessen-horowitz-leads-23m-round-for-nft-marketplace-opensea\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:26:27","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-leads-23m-round-for-nft-marketplace-opensea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andreessen-horowitz-leads-23m-round-for-nft-marketplace-opensea\/","title":{"rendered":"# Andreessen Horowitz leads $23M round for NFT marketplace OpenSea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Andreessen Horowitz leads $23M round for NFT marketplace OpenSea <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDMvMDI3YjI4YzItNjlkMi00YzBjLTg2NTAtNTNkYWI0YjE3MDI1LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>OpenSea, one of the largest digital collectible marketplaces, has secured backing from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, and others in a new funding round.<\/p>\n<p>According to Andreessen Horowitz, the firm is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/2021\/03\/18\/investing-in-opensea\/\">leading<\/a> a $23 million <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> A round for OpenSea alongside a16z\u2019s Cultural Leadership Fund, as well as angel investors Ron Conway, Mark Cuban, Tim Ferriss, Belinda Johnson, Naval Ravikant, Ben Silberman, and others. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpenSea makes NFTs searchable, usable, and organized,\u201d said a16z <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> partner Katie Haun. \u201cBut it goes further and provides a marketplace that brings all platforms together and eases transactions among all parties, the way eBay and Amazon do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The venture capital firm cited OpenSea\u2019s growth in its decision to back the non-fungible token, or NFT, marketplace, saying it had been \u201coff the charts\u201d in the last six months, with transaction volume having grown 100-fold. In addition, a16z praised the marketplace\u2019s leadership, including CEO Devin Finzer and CTO Alex Atallah. <\/p>\n<p>As one of the first venture capital firms to enter the space, Andreessen Horowitz has invested in a variety of crypto projects so far, including Libra, Maker DAO, and Coinbase. Last month the firm backed Optimism&#8217;s L2 scaling solution.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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According to Andreessen Horowitz, the firm is leading a $23 million Series A round for OpenSea alongside a16z\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDMvMDI3YjI4YzItNjlkMi00YzBjLTg2NTAtNTNkYWI0YjE3MDI1LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77473,75719,95118,74935,117,86389],"class_list":["post-205443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-funding","tag-nft","tag-nonfungible-tokens","tag-business","tag-marketplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}