Lumikai Pixels Pitch Day: How Gaming Founders Can Win Investors

In June, Lumikai hosted the inaugural edition of Pixels Pitch Day, bringing together early-stage founders building across games, gaming x AI, gaming-tech, and AR/VR/MR, pitching for an investment of up to $250K from our Pixels pre-seed program.

The event received over 150 applications from across India, with six companies shortlisted to pitch before a jury comprising Salone Sehgal, Founder & Managing Partner, Lumikai; Akshat Rathee, Co-Founder & Managing Director, NODWIN Gaming; Sean Hyunil Sohn, CEO, KRAFTON India; Tomoharu Urabe, Managing Director, MIXI Global Investments India; Oliver Jones, Co-Founder & CEO, Bombay Play; and Ramakrishna Reddy, Co-Founder & CEO, QuriousBit. More than 40 founders, operators, and ecosystem participants attended the showcase and community mixer.

The event resulted in two investments: Yum Yum Labs, a casual gaming studio offering cozy virtual pet experiences with marquee cohorts hitting 100% ROAS at D30, and SwaVid, a gamified interactive edtech platform for school kids which has already mapped 1,200 science and math concepts in their knowledge system, reinforcing our conviction that India's earliest-stage founders are building ambitious products across gaming and interactive media. We will be sharing more on these startups as deals head to closure.

To know more about the event, click here.