Gumi
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Gumi is a game development company that features Gree, a mobile social network. Founded in 2007 by CEO Hironao Kunimitsu, gumi Inc. has expanded from one office in Tokyo to multiple subsidiaries across Asia, Europe and North America. Although we have had a lot of success in Japan with both feature phone and smartphone games.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Gumi invests in
Stages Gumi invests in
Countries Gumi invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$5.5M
- Corporate Round
- $973k–$1.9M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $331k–$5.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 4 (36%)
- Software 4 (36%)
- Video Games 3 (27%)
- Virtual Reality 3 (27%)
- SaaS 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (45%)
- Corporate Round 2 (18%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (18%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Country
- Japan 6 (55%)
- United States 2 (18%)
- India 1 (9%)
- France 1 (9%)
- Germany 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ikagawa Joji
Auditor
|
Auditor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Masaru Ohnogi
Head of gumi America
|
Head of gumi America | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Henry Yeh
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hironao Kunimitsu
Founder & CEO
|
Founder & CEO | Total investments: 19 | Find email | |
Hiroyuki Kawamoto
Representative Director & President
|
Representative Director & President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squid offers a workspace for planning, modeling, and testing power grid networks with tools for network analysis and simulation. | Seed / Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| TOKYO GameFi is a Web3 firm formed by a management team of developers and engineers with previous experience at CyberAgent. | $5.5M / Seed / Aug 28, 2023 | ||
| BluWhale's mission is to leverage AI and ML to allow game developers to focus on ways to improve the game rather than wrangling and making sense of astronomical amounts of data. BluWhale's smart automation will do the heavy lifting usually reserved for data analysts and data scientists all in the background, and surface actionable insight | Seed / Mar 11, 2023 | ||
| double jump.tokyo Is a blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider for large-scale enterprises in the gaming and entertainment sector. | $1.9M / Corporate Round / Jan 02, 2019 | ||
| Activ8 is a content development company that offers virtualization, metaverse production, 3D model creation, and event sponsorship services. | $5.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 02, 2018 | ||
| Activ8 develops and provides powerful web applications for multimedia presentations and CRM-solutions.In 2009, the company started the online platform inimeo.com which shows new ways of creating and embedding multimedia online presentations without the need for any special software or training. It is the "do it yourself" way ofauthoring and publishing animated presentations using audio, video, images, graphics, and texts. A powerful WYSIWYG editor and a realtime-API for integrating inimeo presentations into 3rd party solutions (e.g. e-learning, recruiting, ...) are available.Another very successful product of Activ8 is the "A8Dropzone" which makes all kinds of file uploads easy and even comes with a built-in media converter for audio and video files. It also provide a free zendesk.com widget and a free Joomla! plugin utilizing the A8Dropzone "sexy" uploads solution. | $5.4M / Seed / Sep 02, 2018 | ||
| Playsnak is a global Next-Generation game company based in Berlin & Los Angeles. They are targeting to systematically building a true global next-gen game company in the time of maturing global mobile gaming market and shift to VR & AR immersive gaming market. | $1.2M / Seed / May 30, 2017 | ||
| Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan. | $331.1K / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 11, 2016 | ||
| Jolly Good incorporates medical and digital therapy VR technology that is intended to help medical and industrial applications. The company's technology has enabled the medical community and customers to maximize treatments and outcomes by developing high-precision AR and VR systems for development and medical training, long-term caretraining, and social skill training for developmental impairments. | $973K / Corporate Round / Aug 30, 2016 | ||
| 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. | $36M / Series C / Feb 11, 2015 | ||
| See all 11 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Gumi invest in?
Gumi invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Video Games startups, most often at Seed and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Gumi invest in?
Gumi typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.5M at Seed, $973k–$1.9M at Corporate Round and $331k–$5.4M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gumi's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gumi took part in.
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Who are the partners at Gumi?
The team at Gumi includes Ikagawa Joji (Auditor), Masaru Ohnogi (Head of gumi America) and Henry Yeh (Managing Director), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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