# Who is building OpenSocial?

[OpenSocial Protocol](https://www.opensocial.co/) is originally backed by Everest Ventures Group, as well as global actors in the blockchain industry:

* Portal Ventures from the West (Web 3 fund spun out from Insight Partners)
* SNZ from the East (Early backer of Ethereum / Chainlink / Cosmo / Dfinity / Arbitrum / Polkadot)

The round was participated by strategic operators, regional leaders and super angels, including

* OKX (Hong Kong)
* Animoca Brands (Hong Kong)
* Awesome People Ventures (US)
* C98 (Vietnam)
* Summer Ventures (HK)
* Moonrock (Europe)
* Smokey (Bera)
* Jason Yano (Blockworks)
* Mike Dudas (The Block)
* Roham (Dapper Labs)
* Brian Crain (Cosmo)
* Adam Jin (Solana)
* Mable Jiang (Find Satoshi Lab)