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MakersPlace
NFT Marketplace
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Marketplace
- Blockchain
- Art
- Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To be a trusted platform for digital creators to sell their creations directly to fans and collectors worldwide.
9% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
NFTs account for hundreds of millions of dollars of sales every week. Once a niche online phenomenon, they have changed the face of digital and physical culture. MakersPlace is an NFT Marketplace setting out to dominate this exploding new industry.
Unlike some NFT marketplaces, MakersPlace doesn’t really have a unique quirk - its not for gamers, or sports celebrities. It aims, essentially, to be the most trusted marketplace for digital artwork. And it is the artwork that takes centre stage here. Notably, it's the first marketplace to allow for payments in USD as well as cryptocurrency, allowing for greater accessibility to a digital marketplace often dominated by the tech-savvy.
But where it stands out is with the digital artists who use the platform. Some of the biggest names in NFTs sell via MakersPlace, including Beeple, whose piece ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days’ was auctioned at Christie’s for $69.3 million (one of the most expensive artworks in history) and sold on MakersPlace.
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Benefits
- Health/Vision/Dental
- $500 workstation stipend, with an additional $1000 after 6 months of employment
- Flexible vacation policy + 1 personal day off / month
- Weekly team sponsored lunches
- $500/Quarter AirBnB stipend— we want you to go out and enjoy life!
- 100% Remote
Company values
- We're Mission Obsessed: We're maniacally focused on empowering the world's digital creators, and enabling a vibrant future for digital creativity
- We're Owners: We're all impassioned owners of achieving this bold and ambitious mission
- We're Makers: Makers push boundaries and make what may seem like the impossible, possible. We're a team of makers enabling the future for makers
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Apr 2019
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $32m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Daniel Chu
(Executive Chairman & Co-founder)Former Software Development Enginers at Barclays Global Investors, Co-founder of Foodoro, and Head of Activiation Engineering at Pinterest.
Yash Nelapti
(Co-founder)Previously worked at Pinterest as its first employee, and built the first version of Pinterest themselves.
Ryoma Ito
(CSA & Co-founder)Former Program manager at Microsoft, Business Systems Analyst at TELUS, and Director of Product Development at TwitVid. They also founded AsianRice.TV and worked as VP of Product at Mertado and SpecialDeals.