iliad

Company

We build the delivery layer for Playable Discovery.

We started iliad to help publishers and studios get more players into their titles by letting them play. We think the audience a publisher has already earned is the most under-used answer to a crowded release calendar.

The delivery runs inside PC host games today and inside StageTime's arcade cabinets in VR, where the same PC builds stream from our cloud.

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Two founders.

Dominic Deane

Dominic Deane

Co-founder and CEO

A decade founding and scaling VR, AR and video-game technology companies. Formerly COO at Gemba. Oxford University MBA.

Tiago Loureiro

Tiago Loureiro

Co-founder and CTO

Twenty-five years building game technology. Formerly Technical Director on Call of Duty. Part of the team behind the Photon multiplayer engine. Ex-Scopely, MPG, Miniclip.

Backed by

Identity.vcFuel VenturesFounders FactoryBoost VC

$1m raised from investors across the US, UK and Germany.

Where we are

October 2026.

What runs, what is coming, and the order we build in.

100,000 players reached monthly by titles where iliad is live.Reach of the host titles. Not sessions, demos played or conversions.

Live today

  • PC host gamesUnity or Unreal
  • The SDK
  • The dashboard
  • The streaming fleet
  • StageTimefirst public deployment, live since summer 2026, Meta Quest

Coming

  • Console host games

The plan

  1. 1Publishers and studios first.
  2. 2Platforms through scoped deployments.
  3. 3Each deployment has to earn the next.

A session the whole room can watch.

We met the Virtuware team at GDC in March. StageTime is activity-led social VR on Meta Quest, and an arcade of playable games was a natural fit: the audience was already there.

Our system was built for one player in one private session. A cabinet is the opposite: one screen, a crowd, one player at a time. So we rebuilt it around a session the room can watch, with control passed from player to player.

It held up. The cabinets now stream PC games from our cloud across North America and Europe.

One session, as the schema records it

Diagram, not a recorded session. No timings shown.

  1. provisioned

    Prebuilt image, GPU-backed.

  2. streamed

    Streams to the cabinet.

  3. played

    One plays; the room watches.

  4. passed on

    Same session, next player.

  5. ended

    Events are traced end to end.

StageTime's own clip of the arcadeWhat this means for platforms

Press or partnership.

Write to dominic@ili-ad.com.