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Dapper Labs
Consumer Services · Vancouver, Canada · Founded 2018 Unicorn
Uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world
Dapper Labs mafia
Startups founded by Dapper Labs alumni
Former Dapper Labs employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Allen NgNigeria
Justin WaldronUnited States
Eric BermanUnited States
Evan KeastUnited States
Teemu PaivinenFinland
Trevor McFedriesGreece
Dima ShvetsUnited States
Isaac BratzelUnited States
Jose MejiaUnited States
Benjamin EbnerGermanyGlobal footprint
Where Dapper Labs has talent and traffic
(2 of 164 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$6M patent portfolio · 14 active families
Where Dapper Labs concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Dapper Labs and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Dapper Labs's 77 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Dapper Labs appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2019–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
77 deals across Dapper Labs's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Dapper Labs deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Dapper Labs's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Dapper Labs
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Dapper Labs on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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