About 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.
Want to Check Out the Contract?
Click here to read & download all of the terms of the current Indie Fund agreement, available for the public.
Want to apply for funding?
Great! Now that you have a good picture on how Indie Fund works, you can head over to our application page to get started.
Who is Indie Fund?
Indie Fund is a collective of individual investors. Here are our investors in alphabetical order:
Aaron Isaksen
Director of ML Engineering at
ASAPP
Adam Saltsman
Co-Founder & Director at
Finji
Adriaan de Jongh
Game Designer
Andy Schatz
Director at
Pocketwatch Games
Ben Newhouse
STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS & ACQUISITIONS at
Advance
Clemens Scott
Co-Founder & Creative Director at
Broken Rules
Cliff Harris
Founder & Director at
Positech Games
Dan Adelman
Founder at
Leadman Games
Gil Carmel
Software Engineer
Jared Yeager
Executive Producer at
FoxNext Games
Jeffrey Rosen
Co-Founder at
Humble Bundle
John Bizzarro
Senior Software Engineer at
Mental Canvas
John Graham
Co-Founder at
Humble Bundle
John Krajewski
CEO & Founder at
Strange Loop Games
Jonathan Blow
Game Designer
Kellee Santiago
Game Designer & Co-Founder
Kyle Gabler
Game Designer at
Tomorrow Corporation
Mare Sheppard
PROGRAMMER, DESIGNER, ARTIST, CREATIVE LEAD at
Metanet Software
Matthew Davis
Programmer & Co-Designer at
Subset Games
Matthew Wegner
Technical Enabler at
Work
Nathan Vella
Co-founder & President at
Capy Games
Noel Llopis
Making games at
Games from Within
Paul Kilduff-Taylor
Indie game stuff at
Mode 7
Raigan Burns
PROGRAMMER, DESIGNER, MUSICIAN, TECHNICAL LEAD at
Metanet Software
Rami Ismail
One half at
Vlambeer
Rebekah Saltsman
Co-founder & CEO at
Finji
Rob Jagnow
Founder at
Lazy 8 Studios
Ron Carmel
Game Designer
Ron Theis
Software Engineer
Sarah & Colin Northway
Pair Extraordinaire at
Northway Games
Tanya X. Short
Captain at
Kitfox Games
Tommy Refenes
Sliced Half at
Team Meat
Tyler Sigman
Co-President, Design Director at
Red Hook Studios
Zach Gage
Conceptual Artist at
www.stfj.net