{"id":49975,"date":"2021-09-22T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49975"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:11","slug":"dapper-labs-closes-250-million-funding-round-led-by-google-ventures-and-a16z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/dapper-labs-closes-250-million-funding-round-led-by-google-ventures-and-a16z\/","title":{"rendered":"Dapper Labs closes $250 million funding round led by Google Ventures and a16z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dapper Labs closed a $250 million funding round with participation from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Version One Ventures and other investors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8Good news comes in pairs.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve raised $250M from existing investors led by Coatue including a16z, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Version One Ventures as well as new investors including BOND and GIC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9c5EEcUX6y\">https:\/\/t.co\/9c5EEcUX6y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dapper Labs (@dapperlabs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dapperlabs\/status\/1440670843781070850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dapper Labs&#8217; valuation reached $7.6 billion, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/81490\/nba-top-shot-dapper-labs-laliga-nfts-250m-funding\">Decrypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be used to scale and build new products in sports, entertainment and music industries.<\/p>\n<p>Dapper Labs also announced a collaboration with La Liga. The company will release digital collectible cards in partnership with Barcelona, Real Madrid and other Spanish football clubs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Calling all \u26bd\ufe0f fans! Doesn\u2019t get better than this. <br \/>Dapper Labs has joined forces with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaLiga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LaLiga<\/a> to bring a new digital collectible experience for fans <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/builtonFlow?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#builtonFlow<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qBLQxUuuWv\">https:\/\/t.co\/qBLQxUuuWv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dapper Labs (@dapperlabs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dapperlabs\/status\/1440663518492041223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In March, Dapper Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/developers-of-the-nba-top-shot-nft-platform-raise-305-million-from-michael-jordan-and-other-investors\">raised $305 million<\/a> from Michael Jordan and other investors.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the French NFT platform Sorare <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sorare-nft-platform-raises-680m-at-a-4-3bn-valuation\">completed a Series B funding round worth $680 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dapper Labs closed a $250 million funding round with participation from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Version One Ventures and other investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49976,"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":[1577,1213,1133],"class_list":["post-49975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dapper-labs","tag-nft","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49977,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975\/revisions\/49977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}