NFT financing platform Supermojo raises $6 million in seed funding
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14 July 2022 17:04, UTC
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Supermojo, a financing platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), introduced Thursday that it raised $6 million in seed funding.
The funding spherical was led by BH Digital, DRW Enterprise Capital, Intersection Development Companions and Neuberger Berman, with further participation from Sfermion, Arca, Gemini, Everyrealm, Arrington Capital, BlockFi Ventures, Circle Ventures, Crossbeam Enterprise Companions, Draper, FJ Labs, FBG Capital, OP Crypto, Purple Beard Ventures and Ripple, in line with a launch shared with The Block.
Supermojo’s platform incorporates a purchase now pay later (BNLP) service for NFTs. BNPL a course of wherein a person pays a portion for a product outright and pays the remainder in later installments, typically with curiosity.
“The NFT market must welcome new customers with a purpose to maintain scaling. NFT marketplaces and storefronts have but to supply the fee strategies most individuals are aware of when shopping for on-line,” mentioned Supermojo CEO Amir Sarhangi within the assertion, including that BNLP is one acquainted fee technique for many customers.
“Our staff at Supermojo is dedicated to offering a extra seamless, intuitive, and accessible NFT buying, financing, and custody expertise for the subsequent wave of NFT customers, from checkout to resale,” Sarhangi mentioned.
BNLP grew to become common via conventional finance areas by way of the corporate Klarna, however has crept into NFT financing as seen with the DeFi lender Teller just lately launching NFT BNLP options.
Supermojo was based by Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt, two former senior workers of distributed ledger startup Ripple.
