Gumi Ventures

Gumi Ventures, founded in 2012 and based in Tokyo, Japan, is a venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage start-ups and entrepreneurs in the Asian market, particularly those innovating in the smartphone industry. The firm aims to foster new businesses that align with its mission to drive innovation and create a global presence for Japanese companies. Investments typically range from ¥10 million to ¥30 million per portfolio company, reflecting Gumi Ventures' commitment to nurturing the growth of promising enterprises that can resonate on an international scale.

Hirohisa Kunimitsu

Director

Rui Zhang

Vice President

31 past transactions

Mech

Seed Round in 2022
Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.

1SEC

Seed Round in 2021
1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan in the field of enter teignment.

Brave group

Series A in 2020
Brave group is an operator of intellectual property and a provider of marketing services designed to alter the face of the local entertainment market. Through the creation of cartoons and the development of new intellectual property in the form of virtual reality content, the company's services enable businesses to acquire advertising possibilities while providing consumers with entertainment services.

Plott

Seed Round in 2019
Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.

Plott

Venture Round in 2019
Plot provides cloud service operation, security system development services, network construction and operation, and server construction and operation. Their customers inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

Vark

Series A in 2019
ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

mikai

Venture Round in 2019
mikai specializing in virtual YouTuber management, VR or AR content development including studio rental business.

Mechu

Venture Round in 2019
Mechu operates a fan club called “Mechu and debuts and produces 100 virtual YouTubers.

GIFMAGAZINE

Venture Round in 2019
GIFMAGAZINE is Japan's largest community for posting GIF animation works, with 150,000 works posted monthly. Among them, those who have a unique view of the world and produce highly artistic works are introduced as "GIFMAGAZINE Official GIFer".

Unison Live

Seed Round in 2019
Unison Live is developing a "VTuber" (Virtual Youtube) business focusing on live performances by 3D music VTubers.

Vark

Series A in 2018
ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

BUZZCAST

Series B in 2018
BUZZCAST provides influencer-based marketing, focusing on high-ROAS game LP (Let’s Play) videos.

vivito

Venture Round in 2018
Vivito provides a shooting location search platform designed for video production companies and creators.

Edoga

Corporate Round in 2018
Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".

Lute

Seed Round in 2017
Lute is an Instagram Stories media that produce and deliver video content specialized for mobile to deliver edgy content to the digital native generation worldwide. In order to realize the above, lute pays tribute to the historical backgrounds and past works that have had a great influence on the artists and their works that are currently active, their appearance and development, cultural We will produce video works with value and contextual appeal. The vision of lute like this is to protect the rights of authors, etc. while keeping in mind the fair use of cultural property (= content), contributing to the development of culture ", the 1st Copyright Law No. 1 It is in keeping with the objectives stipulated by the Article. Therefore, lute will actively use / quote contents such as voice, images including pictures, video etc.

Immersal

Seed Round in 2017
Immersal Ltd. develops Immersal AR Cloud SDK, a visual positioning and mapping solution for markerless, persistent, battery-friendly, massively multi-user AR. It can be used for enabling immersive AR experiences, such as indoor navigation, product finding, multi-player AR games, ads — your imagination is the limit. Immersal is based in Helsinki, Finland, and currently employ a team of 10 AR gurus.

New standard

Venture Round in 2017
NEW STANDARD Co., Ltd. moves society through three STUDIO businesses, and provides ideas that the millennials are enthusiastic and solutions for business issues for companies and brands.

inXile Entertainment

Venture Round in 2017
inXile entertainment is a game development company focused on creating personality-packed games to gamers wherever they play; from the PS3 to the iPhone. inXile was formed in 2002 by industry veteran Brian Fargo, who turned one of the small developers of the fledgling game industry of the 80's into one of the top 5 publishers of the 90's. inXile entertainment has assembled a team of some of the most talented and experienced people in the software industry so that they can bring the highest quality games possible to home and portable video game systems.

Dely

Venture Round in 2017
Dely is running Japan's best cooking video service, Kurashiru. It strives every day to make services that impact the world. Kurashiru helps many people per day. It introduces a variety of tasty food recipes that color the dining table with cooking videos. Tens of millions of people watch and listen to the monthly recipe service in Japan.

Candee

Series A in 2016
Candee is a production company that provides advertising, video editing, branding, content, PR, and digital marketing services.

Dely

Venture Round in 2016
Dely is running Japan's best cooking video service, Kurashiru. It strives every day to make services that impact the world. Kurashiru helps many people per day. It introduces a variety of tasty food recipes that color the dining table with cooking videos. Tens of millions of people watch and listen to the monthly recipe service in Japan.

XZ Closet

Seed Round in 2015
Closet allows users to take pictures of the clothes in their closets and mix and match outfits using the clothes of other users. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/xz-closet#sthash.ztb8G3y7.dpuf

Standing Ovation

Venture Round in 2015
Standing Ovation is a technology company that develops BtoC fashion apps and provides BtoB OMO customer services.

PrimeAgain,Inc

Seed Round in 2015
PrimeAgain works to innovate ways for users to connect with each other over mobile devices. Established in Dec. 2010, the company has released a mobile photo decorating diary app, "DecoAlbum", which allows users to save, organize, and share photos easily and privately.

YOUPACE

Venture Round in 2015
YOUPACE is an internet company that provides a liver influencer management, application, and Artificial intelligence development services.

Breaker

Venture Round in 2015
Breaker is focused on cross-border marketing they specialize in utilizing overseas influencer marketing on global media platforms.

Metaps

Series C in 2015
Metaps is engaged in three core business areas. Its finance business provides comprehensive services within the fintech domain, including cashless payment services, its marketing business provides one-stop digital marketing solutions, and its DX support business provides SaaS (software as a service) platforms such as data analysis tools.

Breaker

Venture Round in 2014
Breaker is focused on cross-border marketing they specialize in utilizing overseas influencer marketing on global media platforms.

GeoCreates

Seed Round in 2014
Geocreates is a VR software development company that has developed the Toalog SaaS tool for VR. ToPolog is a SaaS-type tool that quantifies the spatial experience when viewing VR. The VR experience video can be saved directly in the cloud regardless of software or hardware. The 3D modeled VR screen or the VR picture of the live view can be used to speculate the line of sight or brain waves, and quantify and design the space experience just like a customer map.

Alim

Venture Round in 2013
Alim specializes in the planning, development, and production of games for iOS and Android. The company has released games for Android and iOS. It also provides planning, development, production, sales, and maintenance of digital content distribution services.

Pal+

Seed Round in 2012
Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
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