Bonfire
Nine venture funds backed a website builder for creators' fans
A no-code builder for creators' own branded websites, where fans' NFTs and social tokens unlocked content, livestreams, drops and contests.
- Capital raised (announced)
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed (total disclosed at public launch) | 2022 |
Announced is what was said at the time. Cash actually received is rarely disclosed and is not assumed to match.
People
| Name | Role | Period | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Alston | — | Product, @tryramp | Oct 2026 | |
| Melissa Zhang | — | Engineer at Bridge | Oct 2026 |
Timeline
12 October 2022
A case study by its video provider said the company then had eight full-time staff.
15 December 2022
During the beta it had worked with the bands Odesza and Portugal. The Man and the musician Daniel Allan.
5 December 2024
The last product announcement on the company's X account before the shutdown notice.
9 April 2025
Some tough news to share: Bonfire will officially sunset on May 2, 2025. This wasn’t an easy decision—but after an amazing journey alongside our creator community, it’s time to say goodbye ❤️🔥 Read the blog post for important details and action steps: https://t.co/aYnhsC8knD
2 May 2025
How it ended
Bonfire announced on X that it would shut down, calling it a tough decision without giving a reason, and pointed creators to a post with action steps before the closing date.
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Sources
9 sources behind this page.
- 1The Bonfire is Open to All! · Bonfire (company blog on Mirror, now served by Paragraph; retrieved after the shutdown)
- 2Bonfire - NFT Project · CRYPTO fundraising · user-editable
- 3Building a Web3 Bonfire for Creators · Livepeer Studio (case study, republished on a personal GitHub Pages site) · Oct 2022
- 4NFT platform Bonfire is out of beta with $6.2 million in funding · Tubefilter · Dec 2022
- 5Most recent posts from @bonfire_tweets · twitterapi.io
- 6X account record for @bonfire_tweets · twitterapi.io
- 7X account lookup: @matt__alston · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 8X account lookup: @MelissaZhang13 · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 9X post search: @bonfire_tweets posts naming its co-founders (2022–2024) · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
Every figure above is clickable and opens the sources behind it. Copies were stored when each source was read, so a citation still resolves after the page it came from is gone.