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Dapper Labs
Uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world
At a glance
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Sector
- Consumer Services
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Dapper Labs.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later69 investors entered at this stage
- GTGarrett Temple
Coatue Management- BCBlockTower Capital
- KMKhris Middleton
Valor Capital Group- JMJordan Matthew
- DGDistributed Global
- TDThomas Davis
- APAppWorks
Version One
Samsung Next- DFDee Ford
- KLKyle Lowry
The Chernin Group- BVBolt Ventures
- NANolan Arenado
- TTTyrod Taylor
Coinbase Ventures
Ashton Kutcher- DSDomantas Sabonis
- SMShay Mitchell
- RCRepublic Capital
- DMDK Metcalf
- WGWarner Music Group
- JMJaVale McGee
Venrock- RMRodney McLeod
- MJMichael Jordan
- Version One Ventures
- 9V93 Ventures
- SMShawn Mendes
- ADAndre Drummond
- KCKen Crawley
- SDStefon Diggs
Sound Ventures- JMJump Management
- EVEONXI Ventures
- AVAG Ventures
- NVNikola Vucevic
- TBTim Beckham
- WSWill Smith
- UHUdonis Haslem
Bond
A_Capital
Animoca Brands- ACAlex Caruso
- NVNorth Island Ventures
- KDKevin Durant
- PCPirata Capital
- LDL1 Digital
- AIAndre Iguodala
- 2C2 Chainz
- APAppWorks
- AGAaron Gordon
- KTKlay Thompson
- GOGreenfield One
- MJMalcom Jenkins
- DMDevin McCourty
- JHJosh Hart
- JMJason McCourty
- REReed.co.uk
Accomplice- DRDreamers
- VRVivek Ranadive
- MCMichael Carter-Williams
- TWTrent Williams
- SDSpencer Dinwiddie
GIC- TYThad Young
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Dapper Labs employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Isaac BratzelUnited States
Allen NgUnited States
Dima ShvetsUnited States
Eric BermanUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
14 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Dapper Labs was the backer or acquirer, 2019–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
77 deals across Dapper Labs's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Dapper Labs deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Dapper Labs's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Dapper Labs on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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