[1] In 1990, after dropping out of business school, Gaume and his friends founded his video game company, Atreid Concept, in Bordeaux.
The company also released titles for video game consoles, rebranding Fury of the Furries to Pac-In-Time under license from Namco and utilizing their Pac-Man intellectual property.
In 1996, Gaume purchased the multimedia rights of Pearson, a British group, to found the company Kalisto Entertainment.
[2] In 1999, thanks to multiple pre-production contracts signed, the company went public on the Stock Exchange in order to raise funds for new projects.
In the wake of his enormous success of 1999, and after announcing sales of 140 million Euros, Gaume was invited to accompany Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, on an official trip.
[3] Many celebrities were elected to the board of directors of Kalisto Entertainment, such as Franck Riboud, CEO of the group Danone, and Emmanuel Chain, the ex-journalist oh the TV channel M6.
[8] In July 2010, Mimesis Republic raised $7 million from various investors, including prestigious business executives such as Marc Simoncini, CEO and founder of the dating site Meetic, and Jean-Emile Rosenblum, founder and director of Pixmania and Francois Pinault, through his holding company Artemis SA.
[9] The social game Mamba Nation, published by Mimesis Republic in early 2012, attracted over 400,000 users between the ages of 13 and 25 in France alone.
Free accessibility via Facebook enables Mamba Nation users to create, develop, personalize and share avatars that they control, within the universe in which the game takes place.