$200-250k
+ Equity
NFT store & trading marketplace
Job no longer available
NFT store & trading marketplace
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200-250k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
To deepen our interaction with experiences that bring us joy.
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To deepen our interaction with experiences that bring us joy.
-51% employee growth in 12 months
Candy produces, sells, and allows fans to trade NFTs on its marketplace. Since launching in 2021, the company's focus has primarily been on baseball and other sports, but it has since expanded into other franchises with the addition of Netflix's Stranger Things Line.
The company was launched by Michael Rubin, the CEO of sports retailer Fanatics (a company valued at over $30 billion), along with Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz and famous entrepreneur and internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk who was an angel investor in the likes of Slack, Venmo, and Uber.
While competition amongst NFT marketplaces is tight, Candy stands out from the crowd given its high profile founding team, business partnerships with the likes of Major League Basketball, Netflix and Getty Images, as well as its rapidly-earned $1.5 billion valuation. There’s been plenty of encouragement with sales too, particularly since the platform debuted its trading marketplace in early 2022. Remarkably, it took just eight hours to surpass $1 million in trade volume.
Following the collapse in the crypto and NFT space in late 2022 it would be expected that Candy might have fared badly, but it has instead announced an extension to its Series A funding round which has attracted significant investment. It intends to use this money to scale the platform and seek out new partnership opportunities with major brands.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Jan 2023
$38m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$100m
SERIES A
This company has top investors
Gary Vaynerchuk
(Board Member)Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, public figure and bestselling author. CEO of VaynerMedia and VaynerNFT, Chairman of VaynerX, and Board Member of fast growth fitness apparel brand Gymshark.