All About Funding A Game Development Company With Lumikai
387Lumikai 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 lighthouse VC fund catalysing India's 'ripe for disruption' gaming and interactive media industries.
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.
Link to Lumikai Spark: https://www.lumikai.com/post/introducing-lumikai-spark
Lumikai Website: https://www.lumikai.com/
Email: hello@lumikai.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumikai/
0:00 - Intro to the video
0:52 - Intro to Justin & Salone
1:10 - What is Lumikai?
1:55 - More about Lumikai Fund
6:31 - What is Lumikai Spark?
8:27 - How can one qualify for funding?
9:40 - Why is Lumkai focused on gaming?
13:34 - Do you need a game demo to pitch to investors?
15:17 - Lumikai Fund connected me to the devs of Bioshock Infinite & Final Fantasy
15:56 - How does a VC fund operate?
19:14 - What are the different rounds of funding?
23:04 - What do we have to give to get funded?
24:55 - Does Lumikai fund a one man company?
27:23 - How to convince someone to fund my game?
29:21 - Lumikai's personal favorite games from India
30:17 - What do you look for in a company before investing?
33:10 - What measures to take before approaching investors?
36:00 - How does a fund raising for a game differ from traditional fund raising?
40:16 - Will my first game fetch me a million dollars?
41:51 - Can I make a game in 6 days that would make me a billionaire?
44:54 - A little bit about Epic Games
45:26 - Reminder about Lumikai
45:34 - Parting thoughts and closing words from Justin & Salone
47:23 - Outro