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Developer tools

# OpenSea

OpenSea is your home for trading everything onchain. Founded in 2017, OpenSea pioneered the first non-custodial marketplace for digital assets and has evolved into the destination for the entire onchain economy. Trade tokens, culture, ideas, digital assets, and physical assets across all major blockchains. At OpenSea, you'll be challenged to exceed your own expectations alongside a nimble, talent-dense crew shaping the future of digital economies for millions. Our culture is centered around thos

sources

2

Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

2

Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

competitors

6

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

status

generated

artifact cache

last updated

2026-07-15

17:19 UTC

source evidence

Why this company exists here

## Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3874

[official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/opensea)

## Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #683

[official source](https://a16z.com/investment-list/)

generated read

High Signal interpretation

OpenSea is classified as **Developer tools** from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction

Product facets

onchaindigital assetsdigital economies

mapping method

Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

## Companies similar to OpenSea

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

[### Avo match 49Avo is powering the future of "building commerce". We have found a way to embed consumer goods and services in the largest physical point of sale in the world - residential and office buildings. By offering a virtual marketplace solution for residential and commercial buildings as a world class amenity, Avo has unlocked a new channel to deliver everything from groceries to cleaning services to millions of people, while avoiding costly CAC and last mile delivery fees. By consolidating deliveries shared product terms: future, found, physical, marketplace; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/avo)[### AssetVault match 44Catalogue, protect and manage your physical and digital assetsshared extracted concept terms: digital, asset; shared product terms: physical, digital, asset](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/assetvault)[### HyBird match 44Making physical asset inspection easy, by improving data capture, and processing, analysing and visualising it in an easy-to-use digital 3D environment.shared extracted concept terms: asset, digital; shared product terms: physical, asset, digital](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/hybird)[### ThirdFi match 44Decentralized AI, agentic and digital asset economy.shared extracted concept terms: digital, asset; shared product terms: digital, asset, economy](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/thirdfi)[### North match 43Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engineshared extracted concept terms: digital; shared product terms: pioneer, digital, future, found; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/north)[### Mason match 38Mason is the fastest way to take smart devices from idea to end user. Whether building a single-use device from scratch or scaling a line of smart products, with Mason it’s 20x faster and 10x less costly to build, deploy and scale. Digital transformation is a modern requirement but operating a hardware-dependent initiative is hard – thousands of hours and millions of dollars are at stake. The Mason Smart Device Platform is the only fully managed infrastructure for developing and delivering dedicshared extracted concept terms: digital; shared product terms: digital, idea, million; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/mason)

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