Tales

Name

Tales

Website

https://talescreator.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tales is a San Francisco-based creator-tools startup, founded in 2018, that builds generative-AI-powered, mobile-native storytelling infrastructure with distributed ownership features for individual storytellers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Creator Storytelling Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Interactive & Enhanced Digital Publishing (multimedia, serialized, interactive fiction) (MPAJAMAL)

Keywords

• Generative ai storytelling
• Mobile storytelling platform
• Creator content tools
• Digital story creation
• Storyteller mobile apps

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Conscious Ticketing: Revenue generated through ticket sales for curated cultural experiences and intimate gatherings held at heritage venues, homes, and havelis. The model emphasizes meaningful connection between artists and audiences while ensuring financial sustainability of traditional arts in the contemporary entertainment economy.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Tales provides a mobile-native platform that equips storytellers with generative AI tools and a distributed ownership model to author, publish, and monetize stories. The product targets individual creators and small teams building digital stories on mobile devices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tales Creator Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Direct peers

• Latitude (AI Dungeon): Latitude builds AI Dungeon, the closest direct peer to Tales — a generative-AI-driven, interactive/branching fiction experience aimed at consumers. Both target readers who want AI-authored, choice-driven stories rather than static text.
• NovelAI: NovelAI is a subscription AI-assisted fiction-writing tool with strong overlap in the 'AI superpowers for storytellers' positioning. Both serve creators who want generative AI augmentation, with Tales adding mobile-native distribution and ownership on top.
• Episode: Episode (by Pocket Gems) is a mobile-first interactive-story platform where readers make choices that branch narrative. Same mobile-native, choice-driven storytelling core as Tales, with a larger installed base — useful as the incumbent scale benchmark.
• Radish Fiction: Radish is a mobile-first serialized-fiction platform with a chapter-by-chapter monetization model. Direct peer on the mobile-native delivery and serialized-reader audience that Tales targets.
• Inkitt (Galatea): Inkitt operates the Galatea mobile app, a serial/branching fiction platform that discovers authors via reader data and publishes on mobile. Directly comparable to Tales on the mobile-serialized-fiction axis, though Inkitt leans on human authors rather than generative AI.

Broad incumbents

• Medium: Medium is a broad online publishing platform with a partner-program monetization layer. Tangentially comparable as a writing-and-publishing destination, though Medium sits in longform essays whereas Tales focuses on serialized/interactive fiction.
• Substack: Substack is a creator-publishing platform with monetization rails and a large subscribed-writer base. Comparable as an alternative destination for storytellers; Tales competes for the same creator attention and could partner with or distribution-partner against Substack.
• Wattpad / Webtoon: Wattpad (owned by Naver alongside Webtoon) is the dominant large-scale serialized fiction community and IP-discovery platform. Comparable as a serial-fiction destination and distribution scale target — a likely acquisition/partner candidate for Tales.

Emerging players

• Scrintal: Scrintal is a visual/interactive writing and outlining tool for fiction authors. Comparable as a creator-tooling peer at the authoring layer, though it is a productivity tool rather than a distribution platform.
• Character.AI: Character.AI offers user-created AI characters for chat-based storytelling, overlapping with Tales on consumer-facing generative AI narrative experiences. Not a direct format competitor (chat vs. serialized narrative), but competes for the same consumer mind-share and creator pool.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Tales