Hello everyone. I'm Julia Borsden and I'm so happy to be here for a Tech Tech Plus live stream with Dapper Labs CEO, Roham, Gary Goslu. Thank you so much for talking to us today, Roam.

Thank you for having me.

So Roam, of course, Dapper Labs is known for NBA Top Shot, really bringing NFTs to the mainstream. And today you have a very

big news about the Web Free 3 platform that is the underpinning and the blockchain that's

supporting everything that Dabber Labs does. And that is Flow. And today you're announcing a 725 million

ecosystem fund for the flow ecosystem. Tell us

about the $725 million, who's participating in this, and what will it fund? Yeah, this $725 million is

coming from some of the world's top investors. So what we did was over the last year, we have already invested $40 million in about

120 companies building on flow.

Those companies have gone on to raise over $3 billion

from some of the world's leading venture capital firms,

Andrewsson Horowitz,

Co2 Union Square Ventures, and others.

And so this $725 million fund is basically bringing all of that together and formalizing a commitment from some of the world's largest and most successful VCs to support the flow

ecosystem, the new companies building on top. And so the firms participating are really the who's who of people who are really supportive of Web 3 applications,

not for speculation, but for actually adding real value.

So Andresa Norwitz, CO2, Union Square Ventures, coin fund, Greenfield.

And actually it's an international fund bringing together some of the some folks from

from Europe as well as Asia to make sure to give global coverage.

And this is an initial commitment.

So all of these firms are going to invest above and beyond.

And in many cases already have in companies building on the flow blockchain, including

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