Devin Finzer

Devin Finzer (born 1990) is an American entrepreneur and technology executive. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenSea, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens and cryptocurrencies.

In January 2022, Forbes estimated the stakes in OpenSea owned by Finzer and his co-founder Alex Atallah to be worth $2.2 billion each, making them the first two non-fungible token billionaires. In April 2023, the net worths of both founders were estimated to have fallen to less than $600 million each following a steep decline in OpenSea's valuation.

Early life and education Devin Finzer was born in 1990; his mother is a physician while his father works as a software engineer. Finzer grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Miramonte High School in Orinda, California.

Finzer matriculated at Brown University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2013. In his junior year at Brown, Finzer worked with future Figma founder Dylan Field to create CourseKick, a socially-oriented search engine for university course registration. Just two weeks after the site launched, 20% of undergraduates had registered. While at Brown, Finzer interned at Wikimedia Foundation, Google Cloud Platform, and Flipboard. After graduating, he took a job at Pinterest in San Francisco as a software engineer.

Career Finzer co-founded two tech start-ups, including Claimdog, a personal finance app acquired by Credit Karma for an undisclosed amount. In July 2021, Finzer was listed 19th on Forbes "NFTy 50" list of most influential individuals in the non-fungible token scene.

In January 2022, OpenSea raised $300 million in new series C funding, propelling the company's valuation to $13.3 billion. In January 2022, Forbes estimated the stakes in OpenSea owned by Finzer and his co-founder Alex Atallah to be worth $2.2 billion each, making them the first two non-fungible token billionaires. He remained CEO of OpenSea in October 2024.

Personal life Finzer met his wife, Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo, in 2021. where she was a Fellow. Finzer has credited Kuo with having the idea to expand OpenSea into a crypto-trading application, and considered her to be "a silent cofounder of OpenSea 2.0". Kuo is a collector of haute couture, and wore a dress designed by Rahul Mishra to the event.