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OpenSea Ventures
New York, New York, United StatesFounded 2022
OpenSea Ventures, the investment arm of OpenSea, focuses on supporting founders who are shaping the future of open Web3 economies. Its strategy involves investing across four main themes: the shift to a multichain world (including both fungible and non-fungible assets), NFT-related protocols and crypto-native infrastructure, social and gaming projects integrating crypto and NFT elements, and NFT aggregators and analytics tools.
67% of their portfolio is in Crypto & Web3. Their most common stage is seed (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $39.3M (across 9 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
9
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
SC
Shane Chesson
Founding Partner
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
9 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 LayerZero Labs | Series D | $120M | Apr 2023 |
 Courtyard | Seed | $7M | Nov 2022 |
| MMinteo | Seed | $4.3M | Sep 2022 |
| MMona | Series A | $14.6M | Jul 2022 |
| BBundlr Network | Seed | $5.2M | May 2022 |
| AAmericana Technologies | Seed | $6.9M | May 2022 |
 Syndicate | Unknown | $6M | May 2022 |
 0x Labs | Series B | $70M | Apr 2022 |
| LayerZero Labs | Series B | $120M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Circle Ventures3 shared
a16z crypto2 shared
OKX Ventures2 shared
Samsung Next2 shared
Sequoia Capital2 shared
Big Brain Holdings2 shared
Seven Seven Six1 shared
Carta1 shared
Framework Ventures1 shared
Greylock Partners1 shared
Pantera1 shared
Sound Ventures1 shared
A.Capital Ventures1 shared
Jump Crypto1 shared
Coinbase Ventures1 shared
Brevan Howard1 shared
Y Combinator1 shared
Cherry Ventures1 shared
VaynerFund1 shared
BOND1 shared
Last updated: 15 April 2026