On September 21, the non-fungible token (NFT) fantasy football platform Sorare announced the company raised $680 million in a Series B funding round led by Softbank. Sorare now has a valuation of $4.3 billion. The company also plans to open an office in the United States.

Sorare Reveals $680M Capital Raise

Non-fungible token (NFT) assets have seen phenomenal growth this year and the company Sorare aims to tether the billion-dollar NFT industry to the multi-billion-dollar fantasy sports market. The market size of fantasy sports in the U.S. alone topped $8.4 billion in 2019.

On Tuesday, the NFT fantasy football platform Sorare revealed the company has raised $680 million in a Series B financing round led by Softbank. Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners and D1 Capital participated in the latest Sorare capital raise. Eurazeo and IVP were also involved. The capital raise was a significant milestone. It is Europe’s largest Series B round and has propelled Sorare to $4.3 billion in total valuation. In the announcement on Tuesday, the Sorare team said it plans to launch an office in the U.S. and “sign up the top 20 football leagues.”

Softbank: ‘Sorare Sits at the Intersection of Two Really Exciting Industries’

Sorare also has plans to expand into other types of sports and so far, the company has licensed players from 180 football teams, including Juventus, Real Madrid, and Liverpool. According to Sorare, the startup saw $150 million in cards swapped on the platform since January 2021.

“The number of monthly active paying Sorare users grew by 34X between Q2 2020 and Q2 2021, with quarterly sales increasing by 51X over the same period,” the company further highlighted in the announcement.

Sorare is at the intersection between two very exciting industries, digital collectibles as well as fantasy sports,” Marcelo Claure (CEO of Softbank Group International) said. Claure added:

It’s evident from Sorare’s amazing growth this year alone that football fans around the world have been eagerly waiting for the ‘game within the game.’

Sorare is not the only NFT platform seeing a large multi-million-dollar capital raise in 2021, as a number of other NFT market platforms have been raising funds. The NFT market Rarible raised over $14 million and revealed plans to launch on the Flow blockchain.

Opensea raised $100 million at the end of July and became a unicorn company. Enjin obtained $20 million in a token sale for the Efinity NFT marketplace that supports the Polkadot blockchain. The Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace Mintable also gathered $13 million in a Series A funding round during the first week of July.

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