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DeHorizon raises funding for metaverse game ecosystem

DeHorizon, a blockchain game company which is making a metaverse game ecosystem, has raised a new round of funding led by Griffin Gaming Partners and Circle Ventures.

DeHorizon will use the money to incubate a portfolio of games and increase the size of the team. The size of the round wasn’t disclosed. The company is making a series of games that are all connected in the same metaverse. The company has multiple pieces, all working on different parts of its metaverse strategy with different names preceded by “De.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.