Restaurant star Ben Leventhal raises another $50 million for crypto dining app Blackbird

Ben Leventhal is a veteran of the restaurant industry. He cofounded the food publication Eater in 2005. He helped found and lead the restaurant reservation platform Resy, which American Express acquired in 2019. And, in 2022, the serial entrepreneur raised $11 million to found Blackbird, a blockchain-based app for restaurants.

On Tuesday, his company Blackbird Labs announced its newest tranche of funding: $50 million in a Series B round led by Silicon Valley investor Spark Capital. Other participants were Coinbase...