Icebreaker Raises $5M in Seed Funding
Summary
The company intends to use the funds to grow its team and further its progress toward scaling the internet’s open, verifiable, and trusted professional network. Led by co-founders Dan Stone and Jack Dillé, Icebreaker allows anyone to instantly prove credentials about themselves, provide verifiable endorsements for others, and use this shared context to freely search the entirety of their network. Most importantly, every professional can search the entirety of their network for free, forever, using more powerful filters than competitors who charge thousands of dollars annually. Icebreaker piloted early iterations of the platform through engagements with other Web3 companies such as Coinbase, Opensea, and Polygon Labs, and at industry conferences like DevConnect in Istanbul and FarCon in Santa Monica. This summer, the team of six will focus on bringing new social graphs into the application on behalf of users as well as promoting connectivity through professional skill endorsements and recommendations.