Courtyard raises $7M to Make Physical Collectibles Digital

NFT platform Courtyard raised $7 million in seed funding. New Enterprise Associates led the fundraising round that included participation from Y Combinator, OpenSea Ventures, VaynerFund, Brink’s, Cherry Ventures, and a group of undisclosed angel investors.
Courtyard built a platform that lets users put their physical collectibles on the blockchain as NFTs to be owned and traded. Every NFT on the company’s platform is physically backed by a replica collectible.
Courtyard plans to use the new capital for product development, hiring, and market expansion.
“Most of us on the Courtyard team are collectors in some form who’ve experienced the hassles of trading firsthand,” Courtyard CEO Nicolas le Jeune said in a press release. “We are eager to introduce brands and consumers to the future of buying and selling physical assets and empower them with the control, transparency, and security that have been missing from the collector ecosystem thus far.”
Mozart: $3M to Onramp Gamers to Web3New Web3 gaming startup Mozart closed a $3 million pre-seed round to build a platform that introduces game developers and gamers to Web3.
Mozart’s mission is to help simplify game developers’ integration to Web3 gaming experiences. The startup has a suite of offerings and products for game studios to onboard their teams to the new growing industry. Mozart specifically wants to help developers integrate NFTs into gaming experiences.
“We eliminate the complexity for game studios by giving them a web2-like SDK [software development kit] and tools to integrate NFT components,” Mozart Co-Founder and CEO Arman Puri said in a statement. “We’re providing game developers with the tools necessary to build a simpler onramp for players to enjoy their gaming experience. No web3 experience needed.”
Arcanum Capital, AG Build, Future Perfect Ventures, and SaxeCap are among the list of investors that participated in Mozart’s first funding round.