Dashtoon, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform for storytellers and their content, raised $5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Matrix Partners India and Stellaris Venture Partners with participation from prominent angel investors.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its AI research, progress product development, and content production in the coming months.
Founded in December 2022 by Sanidhya Narain, Lalith Gudipati, and Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Dashtoon provides a platform that leverages Generative AI technology to enable storytellers worldwide to create illustrated content.
Dashtoon Studio guarantees character consistency, fine control over image composition, and streamlined comic creation workflows. The platform provides creators access to an extensive character library and the capability to train and monetize their unique characters, enabling the production of professional-quality, engaging content ready for global consumption.
Dashtoon Comic Reader Apps enable consumers to get new episodes daily.
With further advancement, the company will add multi-modal capabilities to generate storyboards and dialogues using AI, further reducing the creation time of an episode to less than an hour.
FinSMEs
02/11/2023