20Angel: Joakim Achren: Co-Founder of Next Games (Acq. Netflix) on How To Build an Angel Syndicate, What Data to Study When Investing in Gaming & The Stress & Loneliness When Building a Startup

20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS.

Episode 16 features Joakim Achren, angel investor & co-founder of Next Games, acquired by Netflix in 2022. Joakim also built Elite Game Developers, an online resource that helps entrepreneurs in starting their first games company. The newsletter and podcast have a combined number of over 10,000 subscribers. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio including Audiomob, Funcraft, Resolution Games, Lightheart Entertainment, Savage Game Studios, and over thirty other games companies. More recently, Joakim launched F4 Fund with David Kaye, an $10m early-stage venture fund investing across different verticals through the gaming lens.

The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including:

What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when investing in a company?

How they work with their Founders?

How Founders should approach them?

What they think makes a great angel investor?

Show links:

https://www.elitegamedevelopers.com/

https://f4.fund/