Storybird provides an art-inspired storytelling platform where users assemble picture books by dragging pre-rendered artwork and text into layouts. The product targets families, schools and libraries, and tween/teen girls, with both free use and paid options. Monetization includes $9 monthly memberships for perks like custom covers and faster public publishing, plus sales of physical and digital copies. The company launched in 2010, rewrote its app in HTML5, and is building new premium features and tools for 2013. As of the article, Storybird had produced 5 million stories among 2 million members (about 22 million pages) after hitting 2.5 million stories by 2011. It has raised external funding and is headquartered in Toronto.

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$1M

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1

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Equity

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Feb 2013