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Lumikai combines the Latin word for ‘light’ with the Japanese word for ‘tribe.’

India’s interactive market is entering a golden age. Our purpose is to be the pioneering VC fund catalysing India's gaming and interactive media revolution.

We are curating and supporting a select tribe of India’s most forward thinking, creative and talented founders. Our vision is to find and fund game-changing early stage founders with a bold vision for the future and to help them achieve outlier success.

We bring decades of sector strategic experience and knowledge, while leveraging our all-star local and global networks to help propel our founders to success.

We are guided by four key principles.

  1. Collaboration: We focus on building win-win partnerships. Our aim is to build a high-impact community of game-changing founders, strategic investors, and ecosystem leaders to catalyse India's golden age of interactive media.
  2. Integrity: We value honesty, transparency and patient, long term thinking. Ditch the elevator pitch and talk to us from the heart.
  3. Clarity: We have total conviction on the untapped potential of India's interactive market. We value founders with a clear vision of the future and a laser focus on the priorities to get there.
  4. Passion: We are curious, passionate and think deeply about the next wave of growth in gaming and interactive media. We are inspired by founders who nurture their innate curiosity to see beyond just the current trends.

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