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Company Overview
Storyboarder, launched in 2023, operates in the consumer content industry with a focus on visual storytelling through webcomics. The company provides a tool and platform designed for creating, sharing, and selling webcomics. It caters to a global audience, including the United States and Canada, and functions both locally and remotely. The platform is backed by notable investors, including Y Combinator, David Karp, and Andrew Kortina.
Locations
Storyboarder is based in San Francisco, CA, USA, with additional operations in Roxbury, CT, USA. The company also supports fully remote work, allowing it to cater to talents and users worldwide. This distributed model ensures accessibility and flexibility for both its team and user base.
Key Features
Storyboarder offers a wide range of advanced features to enhance the webcomic creation experience. These include an easy-to-use interface, real-time multiplayer, character creator, poseable characters, facial expressions, and an extensive asset library. The platform also provides a ray traced renderer, automatic shot composition, 2D drawing engine, script editor, and export options to images, video, and PDF. These tools are accessible via a web-based online tool, supporting mobile devices and tablets, with the ability to edit scenes in VR.
Innovative Technologies
The platform integrates cutting-edge technologies, such as VR editing and plans for generative ML models to enhance storytelling capabilities. These advances aim to democratize visual storytelling, making it easier for creators to produce high-quality webcomics. Additionally, the tool supports a studio organization feature, an asset marketplace, a social network for storytellers, daily challenges, and stickers for community engagement.
Market and Vision
Storyboarder operates in the growing webcomic industry, which is particularly strong in East Asia with a valuation of $12B. The company aims to democratize visual storytelling by making storyboarding software accessible and easy to use. Storyboarder also plans to build a community around storytelling, connecting creators and readers while enabling monetization of content through small payments. It focuses on episodic content flexibility and takes a cut from transactions on the platform, without charging users for creating and sharing their stories.
