Overview
Location
United States, Virginia
Employees
1-10
Total raised
$8M
Investors 2
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| UNION SQUARE VENTURES | usv.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
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| Dec 16, 2016 | Funding round | $3M |
Mentions in press and media 6
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| Dec 16, 2016 | OB1 Raises $3M Funding | OB1, a peer-to-peer trade community, raised $3M in funding. Backers included BlueYard, Union Square Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz. The company intends to use the funds to continue improving the open source software and growing the peer-... |
| Apr 9, 2016 | Video Of The Week: Q&A With Brian Hoffman of Open Bazaar | Our portfolio company OB1 launched the Open Bazaar p2p decentralized marketplace protocol recently. Here’s a video where OB1 founder Brian Hoffman explains what Open Bazaar is and why they built it. |
| Dec 12, 2015 | USV Thesis 2.0 | Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or... |
| Jun 12, 2015 | Future Friday: OpenBazaar and OB1 | Yesterday our portfolio company OB1 announced a seed round led by USV, Andreessen Horowitz and William Mougayar. From the OB1 blog post: OpenBazaar will always be open source and MIT licensed. As a global software community, we’ve intention... |
| Jun 11, 2015 | Introducing OB1 | We have said many times that we believe in emergent, decentralized, start-up innovation. Institutions public and private, no matter how well intentioned, tend to protect their institutional interests, whether is it a current revenue stream,... |
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FAQ about OB1
How much funding has OB1 raised?
OB1 has raised $8M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has OB1 raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of OB1, among them a funding round of $3M on Dec 16, 2016.
Who has invested in OB1?
Parsers VC lists 2 investors of OB1, among them UNION SQUARE VENTURES.
What has the press written about OB1?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning OB1, among them “OB1 Raises $3M Funding” (Dec 16, 2016) and “Video Of The Week: Q&A With Brian Hoffman of Open Bazaar” (Apr 9, 2016).
Is OB1 still active?
Yes, OB1 is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 14, 2018.