Est. 2018Digital ownership.
Digital ownership.
Financial freedom.
Open infrastructure.
A venture studio at the intersection of emerging technology and culture. Powered by Flow.
NBA Top Shot
A venture studio at the intersection of emerging technology and culture. Powered by Flow.
We are building a world where:
“Named one of 50 world's most innovative companies and no.1 gaming company.”
Fast Company
“This is an entirely new way to own something.”
NPR
“A cultural phenomenon.”
ETHNews
“The most used contract in blockchain.”
VentureBeat
Over $500M raised across 127 investors since 2018. Through CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot, Flow, and the bear market that took out everybody else in the category. The people who stayed are the people who knew what this was always going to be.
Dapper Labs is a venture studio that builds consumer products around digital ownership. The portfolio includes NBA Top Shot, Disney Pinnacle, NFL ALL DAY, CryptoKitties, Peak Money, and Miquela. Dapper also created Flow, an open blockchain network used by millions of consumers and global brands.
No. Flow is an open, public blockchain network originally created by Dapper Labs and now stewarded by an independent ecosystem of developers, validators, and the Flow Foundation. Dapper Labs is one of many companies building products on Flow.
Dapper Labs was founded by Roham Gharegozlou and Dieter Shirley in 2018, spun out of Axiom Zen. The team had previously launched CryptoKitties in 2017, the first consumer use case for NFTs to break through.
NBA Top Shot is built and operated by Dapper Labs under official licenses with the NBA and the NBPA. It lets fans own iconic NBA highlights as digital collectibles on the Flow blockchain. NBA Top Shot has more than 1.6M collectors and over $1.2B in lifetime sales.
The Foundry is where new product bets get rapid-prototyped at Dapper and tested against a product-market-fit framework. Winners graduate into standalone products. It is where the next generation of Dapper Labs products begins.
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We're a small, talent-dense team. Engineering-led. AI-fluent. Building consumer products that have to work in the real world, for real people, on infrastructure we own.
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