Augmented Reality Dev Jadu Raises $7 Million For Its ‘Mirrorverse’
There are a lot of things that you can add to the metaverse and have it make perfect sense. For the LA-based Augmented Reality developer Jadu, that includes Hoverboards, and its own ambitious take on a metaverse. ...
Of course, Jadu’s investors also included some other major players. For example, LionTree, Coinbase Ventures, PKO Investments & Progression Fund, Guy Oseary (now manager of Bored Ape Yacht Club), Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and Snoop Dogg’s manager Nick Adler, among others.
Even before these names entered the fray, Jadu wasn’t short of ambition or confidence. Its previous success in community building around its jet pack NFTs were reason enough to push out to hoverboards, as CEO, Assad Malik makes clear, “We’ve known we can create incredible AR experiences but it’s only now with Web3 incentive systems that the missing piece is finally obvious. The community that we formed around Jetpacks, which we have now expanded with Hoverboards, is an incredible way to develop AR as a true creative medium beyond social media filters and enterprise use cases.”
With this new funding coming after its hoverboards went public, the latter NFT series managed to bring in over $4.4 million in primary sales, according to the team. The figure, coupled with a $20 million secondary market is unsurprising too, given the star power involved with them. Each hoverboard was developed and minted in partnership with major names like Snoop Dogg; Grimes; F1 Champion Lewis Hamilton; visual artist Mimi Onuoha, and NFT curator Trippy.
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