Hawku has data on the NFT game Zed.run.
Hawku has data on the NFT game Zed.run.
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Hawku raises $4M for gaming and utility NFT marketplace

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hawku has raised $4 million to build a marketplace for gaming and utility nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and it wants to provide data so that people buying these NFTs can make smart decisions.

That kind of announcement is getting to be routine these days as lots of companies are rushing into NFT games. But Hawku is run by one man, CEO Charlie Graham, a 20-year startup veteran. And the money comes from Lightspeed Venture Partners and a number of other investors including Multicoin Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Alameda Capital, Animoca Brands, Solana, and Virtual Human Services.

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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.