About Indie Fund

What is Indie Fund?
Why Indie Fund?
How does it work?
Who is Indie Fund?

What is Indie Fund?

Indie Fund is a funding source for independent developers, created by a group of successful indies looking to encourage the next wave of game developers. It was established as a serious alternative to the traditional publisher funding model. Our aim is to support the growth of games as a medium by helping indie developers get (and stay) financially independent.

Indie Fund is structured like an investment syndicate. That means, for each project we invest in, each investor chooses for themselves if they'd like to participate or not, and if they want to participate then how much money they want to invest.

Please note: Indie Fund is an investment syndicate, not a publisher. We can't offer marketing or PR support and we can't publish your game for you.

Why Indie Fund?

Details about the need for Indie Fund and the rationale behind it were shared at the Game Developers Conference 2010s in the talk titled Indies and Publishers: Fixing a System that Never Worked.

How does it work?

Here’s a quick summary of how our funding works:

Flexible budget, no milestones

We start out with your best guess for the budget and pay that out in two chunks: one after signing, the other when the first is close to running out. If more funding is required, or if less funding is required, we can adjust the second payment.

Repayment

Once the game is released, you first pay back the investment and then share 25% of the revenue, until we double the initial investment, or until 2 years after the initial launch date, whichever comes first.

No long term obligations

If the game did not generate enough revenue to repay the investment within 2 years of release, the agreement expires and you no longer owe Indie Fund anything. Whatever revenue your game generates from that point on is yours to keep. If the game does generate enough revenue to repay the investment the agreement could expire even sooner leaving 100% of the revenue to you.