It was headed by Neo with the participation of a number of investors: Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, Kubernetes developer Joe Beda, Replit creator Amjad Masada and others.
The funds raised will be used to expand the team, operational costs and infrastructure, as well as to develop the AT protocol on the basis of which the platform operates.

Bluesky also announced the first paid feature — a personal domain as a username. To do this, the social network has entered into a partnership with the Namecheap registrar.