
Gumi
Sumitomo Fudosan Nishi-Shinjuku Building No. 5, 3F, 4-34-7 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan
Overview
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
- 2
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Gaming
- Information Technology
- Mobile
- Social Network
Investment portfolio
- Bluwhale
Participated · Seed · Mar 2024
Bluwhale offers a consumer-first platform that matches a user’s financial health score with an AI agent marketplace, enabling enterprises and developers to launch always-on financial services for a digitally native Gen Z audience. The company’s Layer-3, multi-chain infrastructure supplies data, storage, and compute to hundreds of AI agents that recommend assets and execute transactions securely on blockchains. Bluwhale’s ecosystem now serves more than 3.6 million users worldwide, positioning it as a leading real-world application of AI and blockchain convergence. On October 21, 2025 the firm conducted a Token Generation Event for $BLUAI, the native token that fuels its decentralized AI network. Management plans to direct new capital toward broadening institutional partnerships and integrating AI agents into everyday financial applications. By targeting the forthcoming wealth transfer to Millennials and Gen Z, Bluwhale aims to modernize financial services that remain reliant on physical branches and manual processes. Backing from both global banks and leading blockchain foundations underpins the company’s strategy to build secure, scalable, and interoperable AI for traditional and Web3 markets.
- Playsnak
Led · Seed · May 2017
Playsnak develops gaming experiences for virtual reality and augmented reality platforms. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA and Berlin, Germany, and was founded in 2015. It is led by CEO Paha Schulz. Playsnak secured $1.2M in seed funding from game publisher and developer Gumi. That investment brought the company's total funding to $2.5M, including a $1.3M round from South Korea’s K Cube Ventures the prior year. Playsnak intends to use the funds to continue its development efforts.