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Lumikai Fund

Invest in interactive entertainment and gaming companies in India

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Ticket size$500K – $5M
StagesSeed · Pre-Series A
Sectors4 focus areas
01, Snapshot

At a glance

Key signals founders use to decide if this investor is worth a conversation.

Ticket size
$500K – $5M
Stages
Seed · Pre-Series A
Sectors
4 focus areas
Themes
7 mapped
02, Focus

Where they invest

Stages and sectors this investor typically backs.

Sector focus

Consumer / D2CDeep TechGaming / MediaSports
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Lead / invest stages

SeedPre-Series A
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03, Thesis

Investment thesis

Themes this investor is mapped to across the VC Dekho directory.

Invest in interactive entertainment and gaming companies in India

Early-stage buildersFounder-led / operator capitalTech-first / product companiesIndia-first / BharatGaming / mediaConsumer / D2C brandsSeries A / PMF capital
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04, Portfolio

Portfolio companies

7 companies mapped to this fund.

MF
Meta Fashion
Digital Fashion
$400K · Pre-Seed
22 May 2026
NP
NPrep
EdTech
$1.5M · Seed
11 Mar 2026
AS
AskMyGuru
Spiritual-Tech
$1.2M · Seed
10 Apr 2025
AG
All-Star Games
Gaming
$1.5M
2 Mar 2021
BP
Bombay Play
Gaming
$1M · Seed
7 Dec 2020
QU
QuriousBit
Gaming
$2 million · Seed
AU
AutoVrse
Virtual Reality
05, Story

About Lumikai Fund

Background and context for founders evaluating this investor.

Lumikai is India's first dedicated venture capital fund focused exclusively on gaming and interactive entertainment. The fund invests at Seed, Pre-Series A, and Series A stages, writing cheques typically between $500K and $5M, making it one of the few India-based institutional investors with genuine domain depth in this space. Lumikai's partners bring hands-on experience from the global games and media industry, which means founders get more than capital, they get relevant operational guidance on game design, monetisation, user acquisition, and distribution strategy specific to the Indian market and beyond. The fund is particularly well-suited for founders building mobile gaming products, esports platforms, interactive content, and immersive technologies such as AR and VR. Given India's rapidly expanding gaming audience and rising consumer spend in digital entertainment, Lumikai positions itself at the intersection of this structural shift. If you are building in interactive entertainment and are looking for a sector-specialist investor who understands the nuances of the Indian gaming stack, Lumikai should be among your first conversations. Their portfolio track record and industry relationships can meaningfully accelerate go-to-market and partnership efforts.

The fund invests at Seed, Pre-Series A, and Series A stages, writing cheques typically between $500K and $5M, making it one of the few India-based institutional investors with genuine domain depth in this space.

Notes

India's first gaming-focused VC; backed Nazara, Zynga India, Loco

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06, Investors

Investors at Lumikai Fund

Partners and principals mapped to this fund in the directory.

Vice President

Aditya Deshpande

Lumikai Fund

Founder and Managing Partner

Salone Sehgal

Lumikai Fund

07, Nearby

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SeedPre-Series A
Consumer / D2CDeep TechGaming / MediaSports
Early-stage buildersFounder-led / operator capitalTech-first / product companiesIndia-first / BharatGaming / mediaConsumer / D2C brandsSeries A / PMF capital
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