Aurory
43 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors
Aurory is a video game studio that develops and produces its own games, with a team drawn from studios such as Ubisoft, EA, and Gameloft. The company covers art, animation, gameplay design, engineering, and community/marketing functions in-house.
Also known as Aurory Project
Investors · 6
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$100M disclosed across 1 round · 2022
- $100MraisedJan 2022 · 2 sourcesSource ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Aurory is a game studio that designs and produces its own titles, positioning gameplay design and character-driven worlds at the centre of its development approach. Its publicly presented games centre on collectible creatures called Amikos: Amiko Legends is described as an extraction-style experience in which players charm Amikos and must decide how far to push an expedition before extracting, with only extracted rewards retained and other players influencing what each participant finds and faces. Amiko Arena is presented as a collection and squad-building game with strategic "Blitz Battles" in which players own the rewards they earn.
The studio maintains in-house functions spanning art direction, animation, character and world art, UI/UX, VFX, audio, narrative, game, level and economy design, engineering and infrastructure, QA, and marketing and community. Team biographies list prior experience at Ubisoft, EA, Gameloft, Eidos, Motive, Behaviour, Ludia, Warner, Spearhead Games and various independent studios. In earlier public descriptions from 2021, Aurory was characterised as a gaming platform powered by Solana and Serum.
Founding story
Public team write-ups from 2021 identify two co-founders: Yann Penno, creative and art director, described as having worked over 14 years in the indie games industry as a 2D/3D animator and art/creative director; and Paul Vadillo, responsible for marketing and operations, who worked in real estate development before moving full time into cryptocurrency investing in 2019. Early team members also included game design and creative director Stephan Carmignani, blockchain developer Anthony Richet, senior artist Claire Gary and senior animator Sarah Gehrig.
Traction
Third-party company data lists Aurory in the computer games sector with an employee range of 21-50.
Latest developments
The company's website currently presents two games, Amiko Legends and Amiko Arena, and invites visitors to subscribe for updates on upcoming releases.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Aurory operates as an independent studio developing its own creature-collection games, staffed largely by developers with prior experience at large publishers including Ubisoft, EA and Gameloft.
Technology
Aurory's 2021 public description identified its gaming platform as powered by the Solana blockchain and Serum, with hiring at the time including Rust developers alongside in-game development roles. Its games incorporate player ownership of in-game rewards. Web-facing technologies reported for the company's site include Tailwind CSS, jQuery, Emotion, Goober, Google Analytics, Google Workspace and Atlassian Jira issue collection.
Go-to-market
Players of creature-collection, squad-building and extraction-style games, with an early audience drawn from the Solana blockchain gaming community.
Geography
Team members are described with backgrounds spanning France and Canada, including studies and careers in Paris and Montreal; no headquarters location is disclosed publicly.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
In the news
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- Auroryaurory.io · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Aurory do?
- Aurory is a game studio building creature-collection titles including Amiko Legends and Amiko Arena.
- Who are Aurory's investors?
- Aurory's investors include Ascensive Assets, Genblock Capital, Narcissus Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Solar Eco Fund, Triblock.
- How much funding has Aurory raised?
- Aurory has disclosed $100M raised across 1 round.