Ressa Schwarzwald
Founder of game audio outsourcing studio Gameowdio.
Scale-up
A scaleup studio or just scaleup is a studio that already has a profitable and scalable business model and is larger than a typical indie studio but smaller than a AAA studio. Usually a scale-up studio has between 15-50 and employees, and grows or has grown above 20% in either turnover or number of employees over a three-year period.
Scaleups have their own unique challenges that are different from indie developers and AAA-studios. The following mentors at Dutch Game Mentors have experience with a scaleup studio.
Jurriaan van Teunenbroek
Founder of YoudaGames, Chief Publishing Officer at Azerion.
Ard Bonewald
Co-founder and former CEO of Tingly Games, Designer/Producer/Head of Studio.
Micha van der Meer
Demo scene and game industry veteran. Strategic executive advisor.
Peter de Jong
Co-founder and former CEO of Codeglue. General Manager of Behaviour Interactive NL.
Deloryan Hommers
CEO & Founder of Studio Deloryan, developer of Horse Reality.
Koen Deetman
Founder, CEO, Game Director and Business Developer of KeokeN Interactive.
Martine Spaans
Founder Talamaki publishing, General Manager of DGA, board member of EGDF.
Derk de Geus
Co-founder and former CEO of Paladin Studios, for nearly two decades.
Laurens Rutten
Founder and CEO of CoolGames. Pioneer and evangelist for HTML5 games ecosystem.