We established this platform recognizing the challenges many independent European game studios face in managing their economic and international growth.
They struggle to find specialized financiers and meet their expectations, to identify the right financial tools at the right stage of their production development, and to locate legal, financial, and accounting experts with experience in the gaming industry.
Our platform is designed for those smaller studios who may not have the resources to hire a dedicated financial director.
We aim to bridge these gaps, providing these studios with tailored, professional advice and resources, enabling them to focus on what they do best - creating captivating games.
They whisper our name
Jawad ALAOUI serves as the CTO of Jamaste, bringing years of experience from the financial industry. At Société Générale, he played a key role in implementing Data and AI solutions. Notably, he created the COOP solution, a financing portal for video game studios. In 2020, he co-founded norma.dev, a community for Developers and Data scientists.
Stéphane Rappeneau
Jamaste Co-founder & Product Owner
After 20 years in Investment Banking, Stéphane returned to his first love : the game industry, and the desire to support indies in everything business & finance related. As a day-job, he is CFO & Creative Producer for Hawkswell Studios.
Prof. Odile Limpach
SpielFabrique Co-founder
Odile has been working in the Gaming industry for more than 25 years. After managing a distribution company and a big development studio, Odile is now concentrating on building SpielFabrique mentoring and support programs as well as working as a professor for economics at the Cologne Game Lab (TH Köln).
Mathieu Cappe
Jamaste Co-founder
Mathieu has spent 22 years in the financial industry, more particularly focused on structured finance and, lately, strategy & business development. The team he leads within Société Générale has notably developed, from the ground up, two data-driven lending solutions for mobile video games studios & publishers, and now scales the approach to serve a broader range of corporate customers.
Ruth Lemmen
Project Manager for the Indie Plaza Project
Freelance coach, consultant, program and project manager with expertise with the games and media industries. Special focus with strategic business planning, funding and financing as well as marketing. Excellent networker with broad cross sector experience with projects and products.
Hugo Derivry
SpielFabrique Project Manager
After a first experience as an analyst in Strategy & Operations at Deloitte Portugal, Hugo joined SpielFabrique as project manager in 2020. he has performed research on public & private funding in Europe for the German government, and is also in charge of MATCH, a program which aims to foster coproductions between European indie studios.
Thierry Baujard
Co founder - Spielfabrique
Financing expert with 20 years experience in the audiovisual, gaming and music industries in Europe. Focus on alternative funding models and private/public access to financing. Cross border and cross sectorial expertise.
