Stratos — The Gaming Sphere

Stratos is B2B infrastructure for the indie gaming industry, combining a proprietary data-driven title selection engine, a structured institutional financing vehicle, and a full-cycle publishing stack into a single platform. The company identifies, finances, and publishes high-potential indie titles across Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, and console storefronts, using its proprietary Predict Score Engine (PSE) — a quantitative scoring methodology, calibrated on industry databases including Newzoo and VGI, that converts qualitative game assessment into a data-driven risk-return model. Approximately 50 titles are evaluated for every one selected (a ~6% selection rate), and Stratos accompanies each selected studio throughout development with continuous market intelligence, not just at the point of investment.

The business model is two-sided: indie studios gain access to capital, distribution expertise, and international market reach they typically cannot secure through banks, traditional publishers, or crowdfunding; investors gain a structured, empirically-grounded vehicle for exposure to an indie gaming market that has lacked one until now. Stratos monetizes through a per-title revenue share with studios (60% of net revenues to Stratos in the first three years, reverting to 40%, then 10% in perpetuity from year four), a 20% advisory fee on Club Deal-financed titles, and a permanent IP royalty acquired at signing on every published title — positioning Stratos as a long-term IP holding structure rather than a pure publishing operator, with upside optionality from cross-media rights (film, TV, merchandising, licensing).