{"id":39189,"date":"2021-03-18T19:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39189"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:20:57","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-leads-opensea-nft-marketplaces-23-million-series-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/andreessen-horowitz-leads-opensea-nft-marketplaces-23-million-series-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz Leads OpenSea NFT Marketplace\u2019s $23 Million Series A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFT marketplace OpenSea has raised $23 million in a Series A round, led by Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Announcing our $23M Series A, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a16z?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@a16z<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WlM1tngJDH\">https:\/\/t.co\/WlM1tngJDH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenSea (@opensea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opensea\/status\/1372570043180015622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other investors include Mark Cuban, Naval Ravikant, Belinda Johnson and others. The funds will be used to scale the NFT marketplace&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a16z led the Series A round for the Ethereum layer-2 solution Optimism <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/andreessen-horowitz-leads-25-million-series-a-for-ethereum-layer-2-solution-optimism\">raising $25 million<\/a>. Before that, the venture firm <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/celo-blockchain-project-raises-20-million-from-a16z-greenfield-one-and-electric-capital\">invested<\/a> in the startup Celo.<\/p>\n<p>From February 4 to March 4, trading volume across the 12 largest NFT platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplaces-monthly-turnover-nears-500-million\">reached a record $480 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about NFTs in ForkLog:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kai89U1ssl\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">What is NFT?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c\u0427\u0442\u043e \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0435 NFT?\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-nft\/embed#?secret=FFK226hKgZ#?secret=kai89U1ssl\" data-secret=\"kai89U1ssl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFT marketplace OpenSea has raised $23 million in a Series A round, led by Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[848,1213],"class_list":["post-39189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"38","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39191,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189\/revisions\/39191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}