Storycraft raises $3M for social AI game to turn players into creators

Storycraft — the AI-powered game platform where players create, explore, and share their own interactive story worlds — has raised a $3 million seed round. The funding for the Montreal-based startup will accelerate the global multiplatform launch of Storycraft’s multiplayer mobile game built on Google Cloud, which combines AI creative tools, online community, and social storytelling in never before seen ways. Khosla Ventures led, the round, which follows an earlier $2 million pre-seed round led by London Venture Partners (LVP), and Signalfire. Storycraft was cofounded by Andy Mauro. He’s a longtime applied AI innovator behind Nuance’s Nina the world’s first enterprise mobile voice assistant, and Automat, the leading product recommendation chatbot (acquired in 2021). Storycraft creations With Storycraft, Mauro wants to create the Minecraft of storytelling—a place where anyone with a story to tell, not just game designers, can turn their ideas into rich, playable experiences by work ... Read full article.