Space Runners Raises $30M Becomes Top Metaverse Fashion Platform

Space Runners has positioned itself at the leading edge of metaverse fashion, combining blockchain-powered digital assets, celebrity partnerships, and gaming interoperability to build out what it calls the first end-to-end virtual fashion ecosystem. Since its 2021 launch by co-founders Won Soh and Deniz Özgür, this Texas-based brand has raised $30 million, including a $10 million round led by Pantera Capital and Polychain Capital, to fuel its ambition of creating interoperable, gamified, and community-centric fashion for the digital world.

How Space Runners Works

Space Runners creates digital wearables as NFTs (non-fungible tokens)—sneakers, apparel, and accessories that users can showcase, trade, and use across multiple metaverses, video games, and social media platforms. Its open-source model allows artists and brands to collaborate and launch fashion drops that are fully interoperable, regardless of the underlying blockchain or gaming engine.

The company’s debut collection in December 2021—NBA Champions Sneaker Collection in partnership with Kyle Kuzma…