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Jadu

https://jadu.ar/

Last activity: 05.08.2024

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Location: United States, California, Culver City

Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $43M

Founded date: 2019

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27.03.2023	The Ventur...	thevrfund....
05.08.2024	CRIT Ventu...	crit.vc

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
26.05.2022	Series A	$36M	Bain Capit...
15.12.2021	Seed	$7M	Progressio...

Mentions in press and media 24

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06.12.2022	Walker Labs Announces Launch of Cryptowalkers: Females, One of the First Female Game-Rigged Collections for Web3	Walker Labs, a Web3 game studio creating groundbreaking AAA-quality titles for the metaverse “Empowering women while making them feel seen and heard is crucial for the future of the internet. Our Cryptowalkers: Females collection is 100% fo...
17.11.2022	Walker Labs Unveils Walker World, an Open-World, Third-Person Shooter and Adventure Game Designed for the Metaverse	Walker Labs, a Web 3.0 game studio creating groundbreaking titles for the metaverse “Walker World is on a mission to be the premier open metaverse destination, where multiple collections and brands can bring their digital identities and ava...
21.06.2022	Jadu Raises $36M for Web3's Definitive AR Platform	We share this news with a deep sense of gratitude to the Jadu community. Without your consistent support and trust, our team’s rapid growth would not be possible. We have now raised a combined $45M+ to accelerate our work towards building W...
27.05.2022	Tiger Global plans to raise a new fund for private investments as public markets sour	This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. After closing a $12.7 billion fund mere months ago, Tiger Global is planning to go back to market...
20.04.2022	Tipatat Chennavasin, General Manager and Co-Founder of The Venture Reality Fund: Episode 12, Execution is King	In this episode, Josef and Rob talk about the Metaverse, and how important it is for founders and investors to learn about it. They are joined by Tipatat Chennavasin, General Manager and Co-Founder of The Venture Reality Fund. Tipatat is a ...
15.12.2021	General Catalyst leads $7M investment in AR startup selling NFT jetpacks	After months of NFT mania and Facebook’s recent name change to Meta, it’s fair to say that “metaverse” chatter has reached a fever pitch. And while crypto investors are buying up avatars and digital swaths of land in hopes that a digital un...
15.12.2021	Jadu Raises $7M in Seed Funding	Jadu, a Los Angeles, CA-based maker of AR NFTs on the Ethereum network, raised $7m in seed funding. The round was led by General Catalyst with an investment from Metapurse, a large NFT fund responsible for bringing NFTs to the mainstream wi...
15.12.2021	The top policy battles for 2022, explained	This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. I know it’s only a Wednesday, but I’ve been quite reflective the past 24 hours as I prepare for T...
-	Who Took Home the Prize at This Year’s dot.LA Award Ceremony?	The 2022 dot.LA Summit closed on Friday afternoon with an award ceremony on the main stage. Each winner of the 2022 dot.LA Start Up Award received a one-hundred percent (100%) discount off WeWork All Access membership fees for three (3) mon...
-	Jadu Launches NFT Avatars for Upcoming Gaming Platform	With plans to sell thousands of NFT avatars, augmented reality (AR) startup Jadu is betting gamers will want to own and invest in personal video game characters. At the end of August, the Los Angeles-based company will sell 11,111 robot ava...
-	Jadu Is Using Augment Reality to Bring Gaming To Real World Landscapes	Jadu, a Los Angeles-based augmented reality (AR) startup, has raised $36 million to build a gaming platform that lets players roam the real world with their NFT avatars. Bain Capital led the Series A round and was joined by existing investo...
-	Are EV School Buses the Key to Charging California’s Power Grid?	Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is often pitched as a technology of the future–some just over-the-horizon idea that will let electric vehicle owners use their car to power their house or their campsite or the grid at large. This vision, where EV adop...
-	'No Swiping, No Profiles, No DMs': 222 Wants to Serve Gen Z Experiences Based on Serendipity	Midway through dinner at a West Hollywood restaurant, Arman Roshannai, the 21-year old CTO of 222 cites 19th century French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace’s demon. Or, rather, the Frenchman’s theory of destiny. As Roshannai explains, LaPlace...
-	Rael Raises $35M To Grow Its Organic Feminine Care Brand	Rael, a Buena Park-based organic feminine care and beauty brand, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round, the company announced Wednesday. The funding was led by the venture arms of two Asian companies: Japanese gaming firm Colop...
-	How to Startup Part 3 - Pitching	As a startup founder, you are always pitching. Whether you are recruiting candidates for employment, talking to potential customers to drive revenue, presenting to investors (the VCs), or simply explaining to your friends and family why you...
-	dot.LA Summit: John Suh’s Advice to Startups Raising Funding, 'Embrace the Cold Call'	John Suh’s lengthy career spinning startups into billion-dollar companies began with a cold call to an investor he was hoping would back his startup. The off-the-cuff reachout ended up being a key step in Suh’s journey to running a billion-...
-	Snapchat’s New Wildlife Crossing AR Experience Hopes To Keep Itself and Mountain Lions From Going Extinct	By 2025, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will span 10 freeway lanes, providing wild animals with safe passage through Agoura Hills. But until then, a new Snapchat filter will give Angelenos a sneak peek at what will one day be the la...
-	Illumix Founder Kirin Sinha On Using Math To Inform Creative Thinking	Kirin Sinha wanted to be a dancer. When injury dashed that dream, she turned to her other passion: math. On this week’s episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, host Yasmin Nouri talks with the founder and CEO of augmented reality (AR) tec...
-	SparkToro Co-Founder Rand Fishkin on ‘Chill’ Work and the Problem With VC	On this episode of Office Hours, SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin talks about how he turned his fascination with SEO and his gift for teaching into a thriving company, his model of “chill work” and his critique of venture capital. Fishkin has...
-	Blockchain-Powered Museum Arkive Launches Out of Stealth In Santa Monica	Historical documents, records and important artifacts are sometimes locked away in vaults (until a museum or library wants to showcase them), and under restricted access. Thomas Mcleod believes that these artifacts hold great value and have...
-	Slingshot Aerospace Acquires Numerica and Seradata	El Segundo-based space simulation company Slingshot Aerospace just added two software companies to its portfolio as it continues it aims to become the go-to provider for space intelligence. Slingshot announced Wednesday that it acquired the...
-	This West Hollywood Startup Uses AI to Track Fashion Counterfeiters	Any Angeleno who’s been duped by a false designer item in the Fashion District understands the value of knowing exactly what is on sale – especially since to the average untrained eye, it’s hard to tell the difference between an authentic a...
-	dot.LA Summit: Could New Tech Help Solve LA’s Housing Crisis?	It’s no secret that Los Angeles desperately needs more affordable housing — and fast. Los Angeles is aiming to build 500,000 new homes by 2029, roughly 40% of which will be income- restricted housing. In order to achieve that, the city is e...
-	These E-Scooter Companies Are Changing Their Low-Income Programs in LA	When Lime launched in Los Angeles in 2018, the company offered five free rides per day to low-income riders, so long as they were under 30 minutes each. But in early May, that changed. Rides under 30 minutes now cost low-income Angelenos a ...

Jadu

Investors 5

Funding Rounds 2

Mentions in press and media 24

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