Bitcoin-Based P2p Marketplace Openbazaar Gets $3 1000000 From Blueyard Capital, Matrimony Foursquare Ventures & Andreessen Horowitz
OB1, the companionship behind the Bitcoin-powered digital marketplace OpenBazaar, announced today the completion of a $3,000,000 funding circular that saw participation from Union Square Ventures (USV), Andreessen Horowitz in addition to BlueYard Capital. This novel circular of funding brings the full invested inward OB1 to $4 million. In Apr of 2015, $1 1 G one thousand was injected into OB1 from USV, Horowitz in addition to angel investor William Mougayar, to larn OpenBazaar upward in addition to running. OpenBazaar essentially allows eBay-style online commerce without the involve for a corporate intermediary. The press release states: “By removing the intermediaries for commerce online, OpenBazaar enables its users to avoid paying fees or having their merchandise controlled yesteryear middlemen. OpenBazaar has been used yesteryear tens of thousands of people internationally since its launch inward Apr of this year.” The projection is open-source in addition to the