Advisory for Interactive Entertainment
Aureola Advisors partners with game studios, publishers, and investors to sharpen strategy, build durable economics, and navigate the decisions that define a company's next decade.
A trusted counsel across the value chain
What we do
We are not a generalist firm with a games practice. Interactive entertainment is the only thing we do — and the depth shows in every engagement.
Portfolio direction, platform positioning, and the long-range choices that shape where a studio competes — and where it shouldn't.
Economy design audits, pricing architecture, and live-service roadmaps that grow lifetime value without eroding player trust.
Buy-side and sell-side advisory, commercial due diligence, and valuation support — from first conversation to close.
Investor narratives, financial models, and round strategy that help founders raise on their terms — and on the right timeline.
Production governance, greenlight discipline, and org design that let creative teams ship predictably without losing their edge.
Launch planning, platform negotiations, and distribution strategy built around the realities of each title and audience.
How we work
Every engagement is led by a partner. No layered teams, no junior hand-offs — just direct, accountable advice from people who have sat in your chair.
We start inside your business — the data, the team, the pressures — before we form a single recommendation.
We pressure-test assumptions against market evidence and our own benchmark library to find what truly moves the needle.
We translate analysis into a sequenced plan your team can own — specific, costed, and ready to defend.
We remain alongside you through execution, because a strategy is only as good as the quarters that follow it.
Who we serve
From first-time founders to established publishers and the investors backing them, we advise across the interactive entertainment value chain.
The firm
Founded in 2020, Aureola Advisors was built on a simple conviction: the games industry deserves counsel as serious as the businesses it has become.
We are a privately held, independent firm. That independence is deliberate — it means our advice answers to one party only, the client in the room. We take a limited number of engagements each year so that every one receives senior attention from first conversation to final recommendation.
We bring real operating memory to every brief — practical, candid, and free of the jargon that too often stands in for clear thinking.
Start a conversation
Tell us a little about where you are and what you're weighing. A partner will reply personally, usually within two business days.
535 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
