Gamina Invest

Primary round January 2027

Gamina

Gamina's red octopus mascot

A portfolio of apps. One capital-allocation engine.

Kill weak apps early.
Scale what earns it.

AI agents research, build, operate, market and support mobile products. A three-person team controls selection, capital and risk.

Meet the founders See the thesis
$1mPrimary capital
15%Equity offered
19Funded verdicts
Dec ’27Decision horizon
Follow the evidence
01

The shift

Portfolios, not payrolls

One small team can now operate many bets.

Gamina uses AI to compress fixed cost while keeping the decisions that matter human. The raise goes into measured distribution—not rebuilding a large organization.

Previously15

employees

Today3

operators + agents

02 / The operating system

Volume is automated.
Authority is not.

Agents do the high-frequency work. Founders retain product selection, release review, budget authority, finance, governance and sensitive support decisions.

  1. 01

    Research

    Agents scan customer needs, categories, review patterns and monetization models.

    Agent-led
  2. 02

    Select

    Kıvanç chooses the concepts that earn build capacity.

    Human gate
  3. 03

    Build

    Agents develop, localize, test and maintain apps under architecture and release review.

    Agent-led
  4. 04

    Test

    Creative and campaigns are operated under founder budget and cohort review.

    Human gate
  5. 05

    Allocate

    Capital advances only when cohort evidence clears the next threshold.

    Human gate

Operating infrastructure

LiveBalcı portfolio dashboarding
~70%In-house MMP complete
Up to ~$10k/moPotential third-party MMP cost avoidance at scale
Balcı is infrastructure, not a standalone portfolio product. Potential avoidance is not a current saving.

03 / The app constellation / 11 worlds

One studio.
Infinite directions.

Move through our portfolio in full colour. Every world keeps its own voice, mood, and reason to exist.

2Launched apps
9Developed + queued
~$100Combined monthly revenue
~50Combined MAU
A sunlit view over Istanbul and the Bosphorus
01 / Travel

1001 Stays

Travel with clarity.

Download

01 / 11

Choose a world, then jump straight to the app.

The portfolio is real. Commercial proof is not. Two apps are live and nine are developed and queued. No Gamina app has yet demonstrated scalable unit economics. This round is designed to turn that uncertainty into evidence.

Founder proof / separate company

The founders have solved mobile distribution once.

Kismet is Somon’s core product—not Gamina traction and not part of this round. The experience in subscriptions, growth, creative iteration and support transfers.

50mLifetime downloads¹
~1mMonthly active users¹
4.6/5Apple Türkiye rating²
~43kApple Türkiye ratings²
¹Management data consolidated across the Kismet app family. ²Apple App Store Türkiye, accessed 10 August 2026. No Somon revenue disclosed.

04 / Capital discipline

Every dollar has a job.
Every stage has a stop rule.

A one-month observation period separates decisions. Capital that is not earned remains cash.

Stage 01 / Signal

Reject obvious mismatches early.

Run two concepts and target roughly 40 activations before more capital is considered.

Expected pool19 apps
Evidence gateInitial signal

$575k maximum authorized acquisition envelope

05 / The round

The round funds proof.
Not organizational weight.

57.5% 26.2% 8.8% 7.5%
57.5%Paid acquisition
26.2%Core team
8.8%Tech + operations
7.5%Unallocated buffer

24-month planning cases

Scale capital stays unspent when evidence is weak.

Projections are assumptions, not commitments. The model includes a 0% effective corporate income tax rate through December 2028 and excludes ad, cloud and commission reimbursements from cash timing.

ScenarioAd spend2027 net revenueDec ’28 cash
Downside$146k$97k$655k
Base$575k$501k$814k
Upside$575k$620k$979k

December 2027

What must be true before Gamina earns sustained scale capital.

19

Test verdicts

Every funded app ends with a kill, improve or scale decision.

5

$30k validations

First-scale economics must survive broader inventory.

≤3

$100k proofs

Only products clearing the contribution hurdle advance.

100%

Shared measurement

Balcı and the in-house MMP support portfolio allocation.

06 / The control layer

Three people control the machine.

After closing, the founders expect to allocate approximately 95% of their time to Gamina.

Kıvanç Balcı

Co-Founder & Chief Product & Technology Officer

Kıvanç Balcı

Robert College; Boğaziçi University, International Trade. Seven-plus years building and operating mobile products. Owns product selection, agent systems, engineering and growth.

Melis Balcı

Co-Founder & CEO

Melis Balcı

Saint-Joseph; Boğaziçi University, Economics. Yapı Kredi derivatives; Pragma investment banking and M&A; seven-plus years leading finance and operations at Somon.

+1Full-time motion & graphic designer

Campaign assets, brand systems and motion production.

The honest part

Built to learn quickly.
Still built with risk.

No proven Gamina winner +

The portfolio may fail to produce scalable acquisition economics. Broad signal testing, explicit stop rules and preserved capital are the response.

Benchmark and model risk +

RevenueCat scaffolding may not predict product-specific behavior. Assumptions are replaced with mature cohorts after each stage.

Platform dependence +

Apple, Google and advertising-platform policies can change. Gamina plans multi-channel tests, Android expansion and first-party attribution.

Small-team concentration +

A three-person team concentrates execution and governance. Agent workflows are documented and technology authority is separated from finance and operations.

Gamina / Istanbul

Fund the decision advantage.

One year. Nineteen verdicts. Enough capital to test broadly, stop weak products and validate scale in the strongest few.

melis@gaminatechnology.com
$1m primary capital15% equity$5.67m pre-moneyNo founder secondary