Unvale raises $1.8M to grow their writers, illustrators and storytelling platform

(Chicago, IL) Unvale secured $1.8M in pre-seed funding to expand its creator platform for illustrators writers and storytellers. The platform supports long-form content creation and audience engagement.

“When I view our digital media landscape, I am less interested in the individual brilliance of established creatives who built well-known franchises like Star Wars and Marvel," declared Casey Lawlor, CEO Unvale. "I am fascinated by the near certainty that people of equal talent exist everywhere, undiscovered, and only lack access for their ideas to be seen by millions. Our mission is to provide that access."

Unvale has 20k monthly active users publishing 160k creations monthly with 1MM social engagements. The platform combines content development and audience growth enabling users to build stories through discoverable social posts.

Unvale aims to be a hub for future creators of major franchises like Harry Potter Star Wars and Marvel. Unvale has 320k total followers and user engagement is a primary motivator. Unvale focuses on younger creators providing tools for storytelling from initial ideas to published works. Unvale has 2MM original works with 95% of users aiming to publish comics novels series movies or video games. Unvale emphasizes human-created content and authenticity. The platform plans to add publishing and monetization tools and is exploring video voice-over and webcomic support. Unvale aims to be a comprehensive platform for creative development and publishing.

Unvale's growth has been nothing short of remarkable. They consistently deliver on their lofty goals and are clearly driven by a deep mission to change how consumer media is created and distributed, declared Ryan Sommerville, General Partner, Antler VC.

SOURCE Unvale