{"id":61104,"date":"2022-05-06T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61104"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:10:32","slug":"haun-ventures-katie-haun-leads-50m-funding-round-for-nft-startup-zora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/haun-ventures-katie-haun-leads-50m-funding-round-for-nft-startup-zora\/","title":{"rendered":"Haun Ventures\u2019 Katie Haun leads $50m funding round for NFT startup Zora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The platform for selling non-fungible tokens, Zora, attracted $50 million in funding. The round was led by Haun Ventures, the venture firm founded by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Katie Haun.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m proud to share that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaunVentures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HaunVentures<\/a> is leading a $50M funding round in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ourZORA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ourzora<\/a>, one of web3\u2019s most important protocols. This is the first deal we\u2019ve led in our firm\u2019s history and I can\u2019t imagine a more fitting group for the distinction.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x7hmKPSqEv\">https:\/\/t.co\/x7hmKPSqEv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Rosenblum (@sjrosenblum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sjrosenblum\/status\/1522260672490483713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The funds will be directed toward accelerating the development of open infrastructure for NFT projects and expanding collaboration with teams in the space. Zora also plans to increase the number of grants awarded and hackathons held.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Haun Ventures is about supporting teams that make the internet better. This means more opportunities online, creativity, security and accountability than in the previous version. NFTs are the foundational building block at the heart of the internet\u2019s future&#8221;, said Sam Rosenblum, a partner at the venture firm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In December 2021, Haun <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-investor-katie-haun-to-leave-andreessen-horowitz-for-her-own-venture\">left a16z<\/a> to pursue her own Web 3.0\u2013focused project. Haun Ventures planned <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/former-a16z-partner-cathy-haun-plans-to-raise-900-million-for-two-new-crypto-funds\">to raise $900 million across two investment funds<\/a>. By March, it emerged that the size of the funds had <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/haun-ventures-led-by-katie-haun-of-a16z-raises-1-5-billion-for-web-3-0-investments\">reached $1.5 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rosenblum, the Zora funding round was the first led by the firm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We have only seen the tip of the NFT iceberg in Web 3.0, and we believe that Zora will become one of the most important protocols (and DAOs), as the NFT ecosystem and its use cases expand significantly in the coming years&#8221;, he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In April 2021, the startup <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/zora-nft-marketplace-raises-8m-from-unnamed-investors\">raised $8 million<\/a> from five unnamed investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zora, a platform for selling non-fungible tokens, raised $50 million in funding in a round led by Haun Ventures, the firm founded by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Katie Haun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61105,"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-61104","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":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61104","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=61104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61106,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61104\/revisions\/61106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}