VC firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Kleiner Perkins led a $170 million Series B fundraising round for Tom Brady’s digital collectibles venture Autograph. After releasing tokens for Brady and partnering with players like as Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, Simone Biles, and Naomi Osaka, the money will help Autograph extend its NFT offerings beyond sports and entertainment.
Katie Haun, Arianna Simpson, Ilya Fushman, and Chris Dixon, all investors, will join the company’s board of directors. Brady and his Autograph co-founders Richard Rosenblatt and CEO Dillon Rosenblatt, Apple SVP of services Eddy Cue, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, musician The Weeknd, and Peter Mattoon, an investment advisor who frequently collaborates with Brady on his business initiatives, are among the existing board members.
Autograph launched in April and partnered with DraftKings in July to provide athlete NFTs to the company’s DraftKings Marketplace. The new Series B funding also included investments from Nicole Quinn of Lightspeed Venture Partners and San Francisco-based venture capital firm 01A.
