NFT Cricket Platform Rario Raises $120M Round Led by Dream Capital
With the investment, Rario can access Mumbai-based fantasy sports platform Dream Sports and its users to further propel both companies into Web 3.
Apr 21, 2022 at 9:12 a.m. UTC:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coindesk/G4TWA4OE75BCXIKXZAXC23TZPY.jpg)
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Camomile Shumba is a CoinDesk regulatory reporter based in the UK. She previously worked as an intern for Business Insider and Bloomberg News. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or projects.
Rario, a non-fungible token (NFT) platform for cricket, raised a $120 million Series A round led by Dream Capital, the venture capital arm of fantasy sports platform Dream Sports, to further launch both companies into Web 3.
- With Dream Capital’s investment, Singapore-based Rario can access Dream Sports’ 140 million users, who will be offered fiat-only products in India.
- Dream Capital is partnering with Rario to help sports fans engage deeper with their favorite cricket teams, Dream Sports Chief Strategy Officer Dev Bajaj said in a press release on Thursday. Mumbai-based Dream Sports is looking to back more startups globally in the Web 3 space with innovative utilities of NFTs, Bajaj said.
- Rario is an NFT platform that allows fans to trade officially licensed moments from cricket matches on the blockchain.
- The company, which was founded in 2021, recently signed a partnership with Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association to create an Australian cricket metaverse.
- Alpha Wave Global also participated in the funding round and joined existing investors, gaming company Animoca Brands and venture capital funds Presight Capital and Kingsway Capital.
- Investors have been piling money into India-based cricket NFT platforms. Cricket NFT marketplace FanCraze is raising around $100 million in a Series A funding round Bloomberg reported in March.
CORRECTION (April 21, 9:45 UTC): Corrects Rario's location in first bullet point, removes "Indian" from headline.
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