Devin Finzer is the co-founder and CEO of OpenSea. Finzer and his co-founder, Alex Atallah, are among the NFT token billionaires, as their OpenSea shares are worth approximately $2.2 billion each.
Devin Finzer Life
Devin Finzer, an American entrepreneur and technology executive, is the co-founder and CEO of the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea. Devin Finzer was born in 1990; His father works as a software engineer, his mother is a doctor. Finzer grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Miramonte High School in Orinda, California.
Finzer enrolled at Brown University, where he earned a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2013. In his third year at Brown, Finzer teamed up with future Figma founder Dylan Field to create CourseKick, a socially-focused search engine for college course enrollment. Just two weeks after the site launched, 20 percent of undergraduates had enrolled. While at Brown, Finzer interned at the Wikimedia Foundation, Google Cloud Platform, and Flipboard. After graduating, she got a job as a software engineer at Pinterest in San Francisco.
Finzer co-founded two startups, including Claimdog, a personal finance app that was purchased by Credit Karma for an undisclosed amount. At Credit Karma, Finzer became interested in blockchain technology. Finzer, together with Alex Atallah, developed and presented WifiCoin, which would offer a token in exchange for sharing access to a wireless router. The couple presented the concept to Y Combinator and it was accepted. Inspired by the launch of CryptoKitties, the duo formed OpenSea in December 2017 to head into the token market, which is unmatched.
Following a 2018 pre-launch tour by Y Combinator, OpenSea raised $2.1 million in venture capital in November 2019. In March 2021, the company raised $23 million in venture capital; Four months later, the company announced another $100 million investment round that made it a unicorn. In January 2022, OpenSea raised $300 million in new Series C financing, raising the company’s value to $13.3 billion.
In July 2021, Finzer was ranked 19th on the Forbes “NFTy 50” list of the most influential people in the NFT token scene.
What is OpenSea?
OpenSea stands out as a marketplace on the blockchain. This marketplace allows users to buy and sell digital assets called NFT (Non-Fungible Token). OpenSea is a platform that facilitates NFT trading using blockchain technologies such as cryptocurrencies and smart contracts.
The platform is built on the Ethereum blockchain and allows users to store their digital assets directly on the blockchain. This allows users to control the assets themselves and also helps prevent problems such as fraud or cheating.
The platform has thousands of users around the world and new users are added every day. Users have bought and sold a large number of NFTs using OpenSea. In addition, a large number of digital artwork, music and other digital assets are sold on OpenSea.
