{"id":39859,"date":"2021-03-31T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39859"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:35:23","slug":"nft-marketplace-superrare-raises-9m-from-mark-cuban-and-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nft-marketplace-superrare-raises-9m-from-mark-cuban-and-samsung\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT marketplace SuperRare raises $9m from Mark Cuban and Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-fungible token (NFT) platform SuperRare has completed a Series A financing round, raising $9m.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we&#39;re SUPER excited to announce our $9 million Series A to fuel the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CryptoArt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CryptoArt<\/a> Revolution \ud83d\udc8e<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s9ZNSxJEh1\">https:\/\/t.co\/s9ZNSxJEh1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SuperRare (@SuperRare) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperRare\/status\/1376905808663957506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The round was led by venture firms Velvet Sea Ventures and 1confirmation. They were joined by billionaire Mark Cuban, investors Chamath Palihapitiya and Naval Ravikant, entrepreneur Marc Benioff, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary&#8217;s Sound Ventures, SamsungNext and others.<\/p>\n<p>According to SuperRare, the platform\u2019s monthly turnover of the digital-art market grew from $8,000 in 2018 to $25 million in 2021. Representatives of the platform say they have helped artists earn more than $30 million.<\/p>\n<p>The head of SuperRare told <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/63295\/nft-marketplace-superrare-9m-funding-mark-cuban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Decrypt<\/a> that the platform would spend the raised funds on expanding the team, developing a mobile app and studying the technology of digital displays for showcasing NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, the marketplace will also feature chat and personalized channels.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the developers of the NFT platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/developers-of-the-nba-top-shot-nft-platform-raise-305-million-from-michael-jordan-and-other-investors\">NBA Top Shot<\/a> raised $305m from Michael Jordan and other investors. According to media reports, the project was valued at about $2.6bn.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, NFT media platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-social-network-niftys-secures-investment-from-mark-cuban-and-joseph-lubin\">Nifty\u2019s<\/a> completed a pre-seed round of financing led by billionaire Mark Cuban and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-fungible token (NFT) platform SuperRare announced the completion of its Series A financing round, raising $9m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39860,"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":[1213,1133],"class_list":["post-39859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39859","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=39859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39861,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39859\/revisions\/39861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}