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April 5, 2022

Sweden’s GOALS raises $15m to build NFT-based FIFA

The games company has raised from Northzone, Cherry Ventures, Moonfire Ventures — and football legend Gerard Pique


Eleanor Warnock

4 min read

GOALS

The world got its first football-NFT unicorn last year when France’s Sorare raised a massive $680m round. Now, a Swedish startup is also betting on the football-NFT combination to score success. 

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Eleanor Warnock

Eleanor Warnock is an advisor to VC firm Bek Ventures, and writes a newsletter on tech and writing. She was previously Sifted’s deputy editor. Find her on X and LinkedIn

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