Hunting for the Next

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Stillfront Group runs an alliance of independent studios that keeps decision making with game teams and acquires profitable, experienced teams that already run evergreen titles. The group lists 12 studios, $200M revenue, $50M profit and buys studios for $10M–$218M while helping scale live games (Babel grew ~10x after joining). Investment wins include a >10x return on Supercell in under five years. Ideal targets are medium‑to‑large studios, proven KPIs, and genre fit (strategy or evergreen casual).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:53Games investing now
3. 8:45Europe’s game dev talent
4. 11:10Scalable games model
5. 13:16Gaming business opportunity
6. 16:53Monetization models
7. 18:18Competitive games investing
8. 19:41Defensibility in gaming
9. 20:27Q&A

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