Storycraft, a developer of AI-integrated social gaming platforms, has raised $3 million in seed funding in a round led by Khosla Ventures. This latest investment follows a $2 million pre-seed round previously led by London Venture Partners (LVP) and Signalfire.
The funding will be used to advance the launch of Storycraft’s multiplayer mobile game, which leverages generative AI tools to allow users to design interactive story-based game environments. Built on Google Cloud infrastructure, the platform integrates community features, user-generated content, and collaborative storytelling elements.
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Storycraft was co-founded by Andy Mauro, known for his previous work on AI technologies including Nuance’s Nina and the Automat chatbot, which was acquired in 2021.
The game enables players to construct digital worlds, create AI-assisted characters, and engage in collaborative storytelling. The platform supports a range of genres and promotes shared content creation. Users can explore other players’ environments, participate in story-driven gameplay, and interact with AI characters designed to respond dynamically to player input.
According to the company, since the launch of its open alpha, users have created thousands of unique game worlds and a substantial volume of AI-generated content, including characters and virtual objects.
The newly secured funding will support team growth, product enhancement, and preparations for a wider beta release scheduled for later this year.
- •AI Worldbuilding Tools: Players use generative AI to create characters, items, structures, gifts, and even sky and lighting effects to give each world a unique feel.
- •Social Gameplay: Real and AI friends can explore and contribute to each other’s worlds and storylines. AI characters ask human players to make things for them, and players visit each other’s worlds to collect the necessary resources creating a near infinite well of ongoing inspiration.
- •UGC-Driven Economy: Players earn, trade, and showcase user-generated content across a shared multiverse. Storycraft is the first game where literally everything is created by players.
- •Emotional Storytelling: Every world is a stage for personal, hilarious, heartfelt, or epic narratives. The AI acts as a Muse for the player to help them come up with ideas, but also responds to the details they provide, each upping the creative ante for each other like true creative partners.