LaLiga has teamed up with Dapper Labs for NFT soccer collectibles.

Dapper Labs raises $250M and seals deal with LaLiga for soccer NFT collectibles

Dapper Labs has raised $250 million in funding to enhance its nonfungible token (NFT) offerings such as the NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain protocol. The company is also partnering with soccer league LaLiga to create NFT collectibles.

That’s a huge raise for Vancouver, Canada-based Dapper Labs, which has come a long way since it launched CryptoKitties in November 2017.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.