Dibbs
Fans could buy a sports card a dollar at a time
An El Segundo-based marketplace for fractional shares in vaulted physical sports cards, each card represented by an NFT split into tradable fractions.
- Capital raised (announced)
- Estimated
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic investment (Amazon) | 2021 |
| |
| Seed | Unknown | Not disclosed | |
| Series A | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Vandenberg | — | Co-founder and CEO of OneGC, a legal platform for startups | Oct 2026 |
Timeline
July 2021
The announcement described the fractional sports-card marketplace coming out of beta. Users traded interests in physical cards held in custody; that was separate from buying a whole card.
9 December 2021
15 March 2023
To our valued collecting community, It is an emotional day at Dibbs. We regret to inform you that we have made the decision to wind down operations of the Dibbs Marketplace effective immediately.
15 March 2023
We appreciate the outpouring of support with sunsetting our first product. To be clear, Dibbs isn’t going anywhere. While the Marketplace is being retired, we now have the opportunity to put our full focus and resources towards our growing Tokenization-as-a-Service business.
How it ended
Dibbs wound down its marketplace effective immediately on 15 March 2023, converting customers' card holdings to US dollar balances for withdrawal. The company said it was not going away and would put its full focus on its tokenization-as-a-service business.
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Sources
8 sources behind this page.
- 1Dibbs comes out of beta · Dibbs via Business Wire · Jul 2021
- 2Dibbs Raises $13 Million for Their Fractional NFT Marketplace · dot.LA · Jul 2021
- 3Dibbs Raises Another $13M for its Sports Card Marketplace That Allows Fractional Ownership · LA TechWatch (interview with the CEO)
- 4Amazon invests in Dibbs for fractional sports collectibles as NFTs · Ledger Insights · Dec 2021
- 5About OneGC: the startup legal platform with a law firm built in · OneGC
- 6X account lookup: @dibbs_io · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 7X post by Darren Rovell, 15 March 2023 · twitterapi.io (X data provider) · Mar 2023
- 8X search: @dibbs_io posts around 15 March 2023 · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
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