# Gumi Ventures

> Gumi Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Video and Gaming. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Fund size: $294M
- Last fund: Aug 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gumi-cryptos/
- Website: http://www.gumiventures.jp/

Gumi Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Video and Gaming. 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 ofJapan.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $810k–$11M |
| Series A | $5.7M–$142M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 6 | 19% |
| Gaming | 5 | 16% |
| Content | 5 | 16% |
| Marketing | 5 | 16% |
| Virtual Reality | 5 | 16% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 34% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 34% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 24 | 75% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hirohisa Kunimitsu | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hirohisa-kunimitsu |
| Hiroyuki Kawamoto | Founder, President & Representative Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroyuki-kawamoto-9f26 |
| Rui Zhang | Vice President | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rui-zhang-0b7e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anto Bio | 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 | 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 | 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 | Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services. | $7.4M | Series A | Jun 16, 2020 |  |
| Plott | Plott is an IT vendor to create the next generation of secure inter-company communication. | $7.1M |  | Aug 13, 2019 |  |
| Plott | 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 |  |
| Vark | 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 | mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development. | $17M |  | May 27, 2019 |  |
| Mechu | ZIG operates VTuber fan club called “MeChu and debuts and produces 100 virtual YouTubers. | $18.4M |  | May 21, 2019 |  |
| GIFMAGAZINE | 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". | $56.7M |  | Jan 30, 2019 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [JAFCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafco-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [YJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yj-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [B Dash Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-dash-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Candee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/candee) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gumi Ventures invest in?

Gumi Ventures invests primarily in Video, Gaming and Content startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round 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 is Gumi Ventures's check size?

Gumi Ventures typically joins rounds of $810k–$11M at Seed and $5.7M–$142M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gumi Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Gumi Ventures?

Public channels for Gumi Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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