Jadu has sold $4.4 million worth of virtual hoverboard NFTs.

Jadu raises $7M to make hoverboards for the metaverse

Jadu has raised $7 million to make hoverboards for the metaverse and develop an augmented reality world that it calls the Mirrorverse.

Los Angeles-based Jadu is very ambitious. The company has augmented reality nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and it wants to develop a world-scale blockchain-based augmented reality game world. And it hopes to launch this Mirrorverse next year.

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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.