LightFury Games: Building the Series A Pitch Deck from Scratch

Abhisomya joined LightFury Games when the company was two to three months old and had no formal fundraising strategy. The seed round had closed on the strength of the founder's profile alone. His job was to build the infrastructure for a Series A raise from the ground up.

He started with the sectoral thesis. He researched how global VCs were evaluating gaming studios at a time when the industry was going through a significant wave of layoffs, including at Activision following its acquisition by Microsoft. The question he had to answer was how an Indian studio could position itself credibly in that environment.

The narrative he helped shape centered on three things: hiring international talent coming out of the layoff cycle, positioning LightFury as India's first triple-A studio, and launching a services division that would generate early revenue. The last point was critical because Indian VCs at the time placed significant weight on early revenue signals, and triple-A game development has a minimum two-year production cycle.

Every week, Abhisomya sat with the CXO team to refine the narrative. He updated the deck's statistics as the company's numbers evolved, and he and the founder worked through the cadence of each slide together. He also sat in live investor meetings, including sessions with Mixi Investment from Japan and Epic Games, watching how the pitch landed and adjusting the approach for the next meeting.

The fundraising effort he contributed to went on to close a $12M pre-Series A round after he had left the company, using the same pitch deck and narrative framework he had helped build.