Live Stream Shopping Platform and Marketplace Whatnot Raises $20M Series A to Become the Premier Platform to Buy and Sell Collectibles
Led by Andreessen Horowitz, the round will enable Whatnot to aggressively expand from valuable collectibles like Pokemon and sports cards to other related categories
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LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, Whatnot announced it has raised $20M in Series A funding, led by Connie Chan, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Y Combinator, Wonder Ventures, Operator Partners, Scribble Ventures, Steve Aoki and Chris Zarou. Raised on the heels of their seed funding round, the company plans to use the funds to rapidly accelerate hiring, and expand into new categories like comic books, vintage video games and hardware, and more.
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Whatnot, a Los Angeles, CA-based live-streaming platform and marketplace that allows collectors and enthusiasts to connect with their community to buy and sell verified products, raised $4M in seed funding.
Backers included Scribble Ventures, Wonder Ventures, Operator Partners, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures and other investors.
The company plans to use the funds to invest in growing the team, scaling their operations and expanding into new categories including video games, comics books, designer toys and vintage fashion.
Led by CTO Logan Head and CEO Grant LaFontaine, Whatnot is a live-streaming platform and marketplace that allows collectors and enthusiasts to connect with their community to buy and sell verified products. The company verifies each item and holds buyers and sellers to a high code of conduct. Since its launch in December 2019, Whatnot has gained thousands of sellers and tens of thousands of buyers on the platform.