Gumi Ventures
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Gumi Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Video and Content. Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future of Japan.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
- Fund size:
- $19M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Gumi Ventures invests in
Stages Gumi Ventures invests in
Countries Gumi Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $465k–$7.1M
- Series A
- $351k–$28M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $469k–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 6 (19%)
- Content 6 (19%)
- Media and Entertainment 6 (19%)
- Gaming 5 (16%)
- Marketing 5 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (34%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (28%)
- Series A 3 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Country
- Japan 24 (75%)
- United States 2 (6%)
- Taiwan 1 (3%)
- Finland 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Hirohisa Kunimitsu
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
|
Hiroyuki Kawamoto
Founder, President & Representative Director
|
Founder, President & Representative Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rui Zhang
Vice President
|
Vice President | Total investments: 8 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anto develops AI-driven infrastructure for precision medicine, utilizing quality-aware sparsification algorithms and lab-in-the-loop validation to separate signal from noise in complex biological data and build multimodal foundation models for microbial communities. The company's platform allows researchers to forecast ecosystem dynamics andsimulate counterfactual outcomes, unlocking the billion-dollar data blind spot in drug development to prevent adverse reactions and improve therapeutic success rates. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| 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. | $6M / Seed / Jun 27, 2022 | ||
| 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 inthe field of enter teignment. | $2.6M / Seed / Feb 04, 2021 | ||
| Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services. | $7.4M / Series A / Jun 16, 2020 | ||
| 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. | $469.1K / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 13, 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. | $7.1M / Seed / Aug 13, 2019 | ||
| ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. | $28.3M / Series A / Aug 07, 2019 | ||
| mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development. | $1.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 27, 2019 | ||
| ZIG operates VTuber fan club called “MeChu and debuts and produces 100 virtual YouTubers. | $18.4M / May 21, 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". | $3.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 30, 2019 | ||
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Gumi Ventures invest in?
Gumi Ventures invests primarily in Video, Content and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 32 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 Ventures invest in?
Gumi Ventures typically joins rounds of $465k–$7.1M at Seed, $351k–$28M at Series A and $469k–$27M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gumi Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gumi Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Gumi Ventures?
The team at Gumi Ventures includes Hirohisa Kunimitsu (Director), Hiroyuki Kawamoto (Founder, President & Representative Director) and Rui Zhang (Vice President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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