Posthuman Studios was founded by Brian Cross, Rob Boyle and graphic designer Adam Jury.

Cross and Boyle had met while exploring the goth subculture and subsequently created material for the dystopian near-future role-playing game Shadowrun, first at FASA, then at FanPro.

[1] Cross, Boyle and Jury decided to start up their own company to gain creative control over their own projects.

As Boyle noted, this allowed them to "work together collectively, and push ahead with new models of publishing.

"[1] Posthuman's first project was Eclipse Phase, "a game of post-apocalyptic transhumanist conspiracy and horror.