NFT marketplace OpenSea has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The new subsidizing values the organization at $1.5 billion, effectively making OpenSea a unicorn, or a startup with an over $1 billion all out valuation.
Members in the round include talent and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Michael Ovitz, Kevin Durant and Ashton Kutcher. The announcement comes only four months after the marketplace closed a $23 million Series A round likewise led by a16z.
“With increasing market reception around crypto economies, NFTs are rapidly becoming the new internet,” prime supporter and CEO of OpenSea Devin Finzer said in a statement. “As we continue to scale, our attention will remain on our customers, and giving the best user experience and entry point into NFTs.”
The New York-based stage, which launched in 2017, is a famous advanced marketplace for crypto collectibles, NFTs and other rare computerized items. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique computerized items that exist on the blockchain and represent different types of files like sound, workmanship, video and more.
OpenSea plans to use its new convergence of financing to scale its NFT marketplace by recruiting more engineers just as expanding to new markets and audiences on a worldwide scale.
While NFT action experienced a slight decline since the blast earlier this year, exchanging volumes and weekly sales have picked back up.
OpenSea also has certainly continued to develop. In June 2021 alone, the stage sold $160 million in advanced assets on its marketplace and experienced a 45% increase in volume development in the primary half of 2021.
Just yesterday, 12-year-old crypto craftsman @ObiWanBenoni made nearly $150,000 by means of OpenSea selling “Weird Whales,” a collection of 3550 AI-generated whales with unique characteristics and different qualities.
Notwithstanding singular sales, the OpenSea marketplace was likewise the launchpad for several high-volume collectible symbol projects like Hashmasks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Meebits, all of which launched for this present year.
