Pine Protocol, Nft Financing Platform, Closes $3M Private Round, Led By Amber Group & Sparkle Ventures
Dec 06, 2022•over 2 years ago
Amount Raised
$3 Million
Round Type
seed
Investors
Sparkle Ventures
Description
Pine Protocol, a pioneer of the emerging NFT-fi (NFT finance) space through NFT (Non-fungible token) lending and financing, has raised $3 million from investors co-led by Amber Group and Sparkle Ventures, an investment firm jointly created by Animoca Brands and the founders of The Sandbox. Pine Protocol specializes in decentralized and non-custodial NFT-backed loans, where users are able to harness their NFT assets as collateral to borrow cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum (ETH) from lenders.
Funding Insights
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