# OpenSea

> OpenSea is a VC fund in New York backing Cryptocurrency and Web3. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opensea-io/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/projectopensea
- Website: https://opensea.io/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/projectopensea

OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for OpenSea. Shizune tracks 10 team members at OpenSea. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/opensea?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 32% |
| Web3 | 4 | 18% |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 55% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 45% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 9% |
| China | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Montgomery | Head of Blockchain | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-montgomery |
| Alex Atallah | Co-Founder & CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-atallah |
| Brian Roberts | CFO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-roberts-5 |
| Clare Gobel | Human Resources | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clare-gobel |
| David Bai | Product Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-bai |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optic | Optic, an AI Drug Discovery company, is based in San Francisco. Our proprietary ligand-based and target-driven molecular search engine Bioptic.io identifies compounds by their activity-expressing fingerprints. It offers a novel approach to finding diverse candidate sets. In addition, we now also have an agentic AI platform for scientific andbusiness due diligence on drug assets. Our pipeline includes multiple pre-clinical stage programs, showcasing our commitment to practical, AI-driven solutions in cancer therapy. | $1M | Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Solak | Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world. |  | Seed | Jul 20, 2024 |  |
| 긴급뉴스 | 긴급뉴스 Breaking news breaking news'는 '뉴스속보/긴급뉴스'를 의미한다. 정규 편성된 TV프로그램이나 라디오프로그램을 중단(breaking)하고 내보내야 할 정도로 긴급한 | $5M | Series A | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| Demox Labs | Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Lasso Labs | Lasso makes it easy to discover and create utility for digital assets like NFTs. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 05, 2022 |  |
| Lasso Labs | Lasso Labs is a data integration platform that provides real-time information flows that helps to stay current with new opportunities, and approachable analytics that helps in understanding of communities, by ingesting real-time data from on-chain and off-chain sources. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Harpie | Harpie is the first on-chain firewall that prevents hacks, scams, and theft. Harpie actively monitors pending transactions for potential attacks and intercepts them, keeping our users' assets safe. | $4.5M | Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| TwitterScan | TwitterScan is a Web3 Platform for Decentralized Social Identification. | $4.6M | Seed | Sep 23, 2022 |  |
| Fair.xyz | Fair.xyz provides a new launch experience that is free of gas wars, accessible, and fair for both NFT collectors and creators. By becoming a one-stop shop for NFTs, Fair.xyz aspires to be the Amazon Marketplace of Web3. It started with digital art and has since expanded to include digital wearables, social tokens, music, architecture, fashion, anda variety of other things.Fair.xyz was founded by a group of engineers from Meta, Instagram, and Goldman Sachs with the goal of developing the best consumer products available on the Web3. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Pinata | Pinata develops tools designed to easily create and manage content on the interplanetary file system. The company's tools simplify immutable data and combine blockchains with immutable off-chain data storage, enabling developers to increase the speed and stability required for production applications.Pinata was founded by Kyle Tautenhan andMatt Ober. | $18M | Series A | Aug 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Davidovs Venture Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davidovs-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lattice Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lattice-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Polygon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polygontechnology) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Coinbase](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does OpenSea invest in?

OpenSea invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Web3 and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact OpenSea?

Public channels for OpenSea include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at OpenSea?

The team at OpenSea includes Adam Montgomery (Head of Blockchain), Alex Atallah (Co-Founder & CTO) and Brian Roberts (CFO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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