Olliver Heins
Aonic
A product executive with 20 years’ experience in the games industry, Olliver Heins is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Aonic. With a gaming career including stints at Bigpoint, Goodgame Studios, NaturalMotion and Plarium – starting out in production and game design – he rose quickly into senior leadership roles. Teams under his leadership have created products with more than 4 billion users and in excess of $5 billion in revenue.
A prolific angel investor, strategic advisor and board member in gaming and other creative industries, he co-founded Aonic in 2021 and Megabit Publishing in 2024. With Aonic, he is uniting elite teams to build the next multiplatform gaming powerhouse.
Olliver Heins is speaking at the following session/s
How to Raise Gaming Investment in 2025
Everyone is saying it: the global games industry is in a tough spot. Raising money for game development is more challenging than ever. And yet, opportunities remain. Deals continue to be done.
Fresh from raising nearly £130 million in December – Europe’s largest gaming fundraise in 2024, second only to the Epic-Disney mega-deal globally – Aonic hasn’t slowed down with its investments in games companies. In January, it invested £8 million+ in Turkish studio Mega Fortuna, with an option to acquire for nearly £60 million.
In this panel, Aonic co-founder and Chief Product Officer Olliver Heins will reveal what investors are looking for when injecting cash into games studios, the process of actually making such investments and what founding companies can expect from it all. He will be joined by a range of fellow experts in the gaming investment space, whether from the perspective of those investing in studios, studios receiving investment, publishers offering funding on a project basis, or similar.
Space will be given for the attendees to ask questions of the panel, with candid answers given to help demystify the investment process.
Session Takeaway
- What: As a games studio in 2025, what are the avenues for investment?
- How: Advice from investor and developer side on standing out as a worthy investment
- Why: The key reasons why investments are worth pursuing (and why, in some cases, they might not be)
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