{"id":81467,"date":"2023-07-08T14:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=81467"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:01:16","slug":"jack-dorseys-bluesky-raises-8-million-in-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/jack-dorseys-bluesky-raises-8-million-in-seed-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Bluesky raises $8 million in seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bluesky \u2014 a decentralized alternative to Twitter, backed by co-founder and former CEO of the social network Jack Dorsey \u2014 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/blueskyweb.xyz\/blog\/7-05-2023-business-plan\\\">closed<\/a> a seed round of funding totaling $8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>It was led by the Neo firm, with participation from a number of investors: Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, Kubernetes developer Joe Beda, Replit founder Amjad Masad, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be used to expand the team, cover operating expenses and infrastructure, and to develop the AT Protocol, on which the platform operates.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Bluesky also announced its first paid feature \u2014 a personal domain as a username. To this end, the social network has entered into a partnership with domain registrar Namecheap.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In March, Bluesky <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jack-dorseys-twitter-alternative-lands-in-the-app-store\">appeared<\/a> in the App Store for iOS.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In July, Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/meta-to-launch-a-twitter-competitor\">launched<\/a> its Twitter alternative called Threads. In Elon Musk&#8217;s company, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/twitter-threatens-meta-with-lawsuit-over-threads-launch\">threatened to sue<\/a> Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluesky \u2014 a decentralized alternative to Twitter, backed by co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey \u2014 closed a seed round of funding totaling $8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81468,"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":[1370,1330,1133],"class_list":["post-81467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bluesky","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81467","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=81467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81469,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81467\/revisions\/81469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}