{"id":55500,"date":"2022-01-05T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T09:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55500"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:48:08","slug":"nft-marketplace-opensea-raises-300-million-at-a-13-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nft-marketplace-opensea-raises-300-million-at-a-13-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $300 million at a $13 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-fungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea closed a Series C financing round worth $300 million. It was led by Paradigm and Coatue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing Series C! We\u2019re building the friendliest &#038; most trusted NFT marketplace with the best selection across many chains. The funding helps us accelerate product development, improve trust &#038; safety, and invest deeply in the web3 community &#038; ecosystem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OmRPleMCOX\">https:\/\/t.co\/OmRPleMCOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenSea (@opensea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opensea\/status\/1478555077690343426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>OpenSea&#8217;s valuation reached $13.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be used to improve customer service, hire staff, develop products, and grow the community.<\/p>\n<p>OpenSea chief Devin Finzer announced the launch of a grant programme to support developers and content creators to popularise the NFT ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, OpenSea <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/andreessen-horowitz-leads-opensea-nft-marketplaces-23-million-series-a\">raised $23 million<\/a>, and in July <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-opensea-raises-100-million-at-a-1-5-billion-valuation\">closed<\/a> a Series B financing round worth $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the platform&#8217;s trading volume <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opensea-nft-marketplace-trading-volume-tops-3-billion-since-early-august\">surpassed $3 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-fungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea closed a Series C financing round worth $300 million. It was led by Paradigm and Coatue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55501,"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":[1213,1265,1133],"class_list":["post-55500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-opensea","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55500","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=55500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55502,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55500\/revisions\/55502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}