Noir Ventures

01/11/2024

Celebrating 8 years of building brands.



From starting out as a small brand agency in the heart of Manchester to working with some of the biggest disruptive brands on the planet.

We have experienced many market cycles, faced many challenges and learnt many lessons that have shaped how we do business today.

But most importantly as a team we have always pushed the limits of creativity and embraced change.

Thank you to all the people who have supported Noir over the years, the amazing brands and people we have worked alongside and we look forward to continuing our mission to back founders turning disruptive ideas into category defining companies to build brands, products and experiences for the new internet.

13/09/2024

Next week we will be heading over to Token2049 in Singapore to catch up with our portfolio clients and venture partners. Looking forward to a full week of events lined up and meeting new people. ✈️🇸🇬

05/08/2024

We are on the hunt for extremely talented creatives to join our studio.

Please send over your portfollio, cv and why you want to join the team to [email protected] 🤝

03/02/2023

OBS World is a 3-dimensional, immersive, sandbox-style metaverse.

The OBS Community can explore, socialise, play car-themed games, follow motorsports news, access content and entertainment, engage in auctioneering, digital retail, sports betting and even scan their own vehicle ready to race against their friends.

11/10/2022

As part of the partnership, Google Cloud is positioned to enable select customers, starting with those in the Web3 ecosystem, to pay for its cloud services via select cryptocurrencies. Powered by Coinbase Commerce—which enables merchants globally to accept cryptocurrency payments in a decentralized way—the new payments experience will benefit Google Cloud's customers and partners by increasing the optionality of payments for Google Cloud services.

Through this partnership, Web3 developers can also access Google's BigQuery crypto public datasets, which will be powered by Coinbase Cloud Nodes, across leading blockchains. The integration will allow developers to instantly and reliably operate Web3-based systems without the need for expensive and complex infrastructure.

"We are excited Google Cloud has selected Coinbase to help bring Web3 to a new set of users and provide powerful solutions to developers," said Brian Armstrong, Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. "With more than 100 million verified users and 14,500 institutional clients, Coinbase has spent more than a decade building industry-leading products on top of blockchain technology. We could not ask for a better partner to help execute our vision of building a trusted bridge into the Web3 ecosystem."

"We want to make building in Web3 faster and easier, and this partnership with Coinbase helps developers get one step closer to that goal," said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. "We're proud Coinbase has chosen Google Cloud as its strategic cloud partner, and we're ready to serve the thriving global Web3 customer and partner ecosystem. Our focus is making it frictionless for all customers to take advantage of our scalability, reliability, security, and data services, so they can focus on innovation in the Web3 space."

10/09/2022

Experience fashion like never before.

We have collaborated with Moonpay + New York Fashion Week to deliver an NFT experience alongside the fashion shows.

Look out for our QR code in the NYFW shows and redeem your exclusive NFTs in two easy steps showcasing some of the worlds best fashion designers.

09/09/2022

Puma just announced Black Station — its first metaverse website experience.

Unveiled during New York Fashion Week, the digital initiative which features exclusive NFTs with limited editionredeemable physical sneakers as part of its ‘FUTROGRADE’ show. The immersive and interactive site allows consumers to dive into PUMA’s future and experience web3 activations over the course of the year and beyond.

“Twenty years ago, Black Station was PUMA’s home for our most innovative designs in fashion,” said Adam Petrick, PUMA’s Chief Brand Officer. “Given the boundaries we are pushing from a product design and digital standpoint, we found it fitting to bring Black Station back as a new portal for digital exploration across fashion, sport performance, our heritage classics, and innovation.”

Beginning on September 7, the first two portals of Black Station will reveal exclusive, never-seen-before Nitro NFRNO and Nitro Fastroid sneakers that are linked to PUMA’s NFT NitroPass mint. Owners who minted a Nitropass have access to a duo of NFTs — one related to physical products and one that grants access to a customized experience linked to their chosen shoe. Once the Futuregrade shoe concludes, minters will be allowed to acquire their physical kicks by burning their product-claimed NFT. “Our team of designers took a lot of liberties when envisioning these footwear styles. We told them the sky is the limit. As a result, we were able to harness their creativity without the typical confines and limitations of our shoe production process,” said Heiko Desens, Global Creative Director and Head of Innovation. “What is just as impressive as the actual designs is the fact that we were actually able to work with development to bring these stunning designs to life.”

07/09/2022

Global football governing body FIFA is gearing up to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) platform 'dubbed FIFA+ Collect' for digital collectibles with soccer themes ahead of the much-awaited 2022 World Cup in Qatar. According to an announcement, the said NFT platform, built in partnership with Algorand, will offer "football fans around the world the chance to affordably own unique digital collectibles – from the greatest game moments to the most iconic FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup art and imagery."

FIFA announced that it would launch FIFA+ Collect later this month on FIFA+, and fans will be able to own digital collectibles of great football moments and art.

25/08/2022