Inventure

Jump Holdings raises $1 million to build Inventure alternate reality mobile game

Jump Holdings has raised $1 million in seed funding to launch Inventure, an alternative reality mobile game that leverages interactive storytelling and artificial intelligence.

The Los Angeles startup raised the money from A3 Education to build a game that merges interactive choices with real world actions to enhance the lives of the game characters as well as the players themselves.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.