# OpenSea Ventures

> OpenSea Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Software, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 12%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opensea-io
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/opensea
- Website: https://opensea.io

OpenSea Ventures is an investment arm that focuses on supporting founders in the open Web3 space. It invests across four main themes: multichain assets, NFT DeFi protocols, gaming projects, and NFT analytics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 59% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 47% |
| Cryptocurrency | 6 | 35% |
| FinTech | 2 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 12% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Series B | 2 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 59% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LayerZero Labs | LayerZero Labs is a blockchain messaging protocol developer that allows decentralized applications build across multiple blockchains. The company is a User Application (UA) configurable on-chain endpoint that runs a ULN. | $120M | Series B | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Satsuma | Satsuma is a blockchain indexing platform that lets developers create custom Web3 APIs for powering frontends and backends. They offer automatic decoding, real-time transformations, multichain support, and more. | $5M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| LayerZero Labs | LayerZero Labs is a blockchain messaging protocol developer that allows decentralized applications build across multiple blockchains. The company is a User Application (UA) configurable on-chain endpoint that runs a ULN. |  | Series B | Apr 01, 2023 |  |
| Stelo Labs | Imagine a world where every time you went to buy a cup of coffee, there was a small chance that all of your money was stolen, says Stelo Labs, a web3 security company. So you have three wallets: one for coffee, one for shopping, and one for your parents' basement. | $6M | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Courtyard | Courtyard is a platform that provides liquidity to collectible assets via physically backed NFTs. It allows ownership of physical collectibles to be instantly and securely transferred anywhere in the world via NFTs, without the physical item itself having to be moved. Connected Collectibles - a new, frictionless way of storing and trading physicalgoods - is redefining physical asset ownership. | $7M | Seed | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Web3 Builders | Web3 Builders are convinced that end-user security is the most significant barrier to crypto adoption, and we are committed to developing tools to keep users safe. It will meet these challenges creatively and with the help of our community, guided by the Builder's Code. | $7M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Permian Labs | MetaStreet is a liquidity routing & scaling protocol for NFT collateralization platforms.MetaStreet strive to increase the GDP of emerging NFT economies through abstracted capital participation on NFT collateralization platforms. | $10M |  | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| Permian Labs | MetaStreet is a liquidity routing & scaling protocol for NFT collateralization platforms.MetaStreet strive to increase the GDP of emerging NFT economies through abstracted capital participation on NFT collateralization platforms. | $10M | Series A | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| MetaStreet | MetaStreet specializes in structuring yield from illiquid assets through a protocol developed by Permian Labs. The company focuses on creating financial solutions that unlock value from assets that are typically hard to trade or monetize. Its approach involves innovative technologies to enhance liquidity and investment opportunities. MetaStreetserves clients interested in alternative asset management and decentralized finance. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| Golden | Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry. | $40M | Series B | Oct 03, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Focus Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/focus-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LedgerPrime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ledgerprime) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Meta4 Capital — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Metaversal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metaversal) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does OpenSea Ventures invest in?

OpenSea Ventures invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did OpenSea Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for OpenSea Ventures closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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