Founder15Not (yet!) a founder
14th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
Google and Amazon analytics veteran now co-founding Nekonomikon Games
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 34th percentile
- Current Co-Founder and CEO of Nekonomikon Games.
- Nekonomikon Games was founded with a co-founder.
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Founder score
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Nekonomikon Games.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Nekonomikon Games was founded with a co-founder.
What you likely need
You're early in your founder journey at Nekonomikon Games, having recently transitioned from a strong analytics career at Google, Amazon, and TripActions into building a video game startup. Right now your priorities should be validating the game concept with players, assembling a small founding team with game-development depth, and preparing a tight pre-seed narrative that leverages your unique data/analytics edge.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalRun a closed alpha or playtest cohort to gather quantitative engagement data — your analytics background is a real edge that gaming investors rarely see.
- fundraisingCraft a pre-seed deck that pairs the game's creative vision with data-driven retention/LTV hypotheses, leaning on your TripActions and Google analytics track record.
- hiringRecruit a senior gameplay engineer or art lead to complement your analytics/operations strengths — solo-founder game studios stall without dedicated craft leadership.
- introsGet warm intros to indie publishers (Raw Fury, Annapurna Interactive, Devolver) who often fund and support small studios at the prototype stage.
- positioningPosition Nekonomikon publicly as a 'data-driven indie studio' to differentiate from creative-only teams — your CMU business + applied math background reinforces that brand.
- introsJoin gaming-focused founder communities like GameDiscoverCo, GamesIndustry.biz network, and 1Up Ventures' founder circle for stage-appropriate peer support.
- wellbeingSet a sustainable cadence early — solo game studio building is a multi-year grind, and burning out in year one is the most common failure mode.