How two high schoolers from Denmark built an NFT marketplace and secured funding through a DAO backed by Bessemer Venture Partners

• Bessemer Venture Partners has invested in the NFT marketplace OWND, which it found through its DAO.
• ONWD’s founders, ages 18 and 21, met as high schoolers in Denmark. Now they’ve raised $750,000.
• Their marketplace curates NFTs from top brands in fashion and apparel such as Nike.

When Anker Bach Ryhl and Mads Lunau Liechti sought to raise money for their NFT marketplace, they didn’t have a long list of Silicon Valley contacts to lean on. They were a whole continent away, in Copenhagen, Denmark.