StoryCo Creator Economy
Founded 2013 · 16 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
StoryCo is a storytelling company that combines creative craft, design, and production technology to turn static content into video. It brings together creators, builders, and producers across film, television, and technology to produce and scale narrative content.
Also known as StoryCo
Founders & leadership
StoryCo Creator Economy was founded in 2013 by J.P. Alanís.
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026StoryCo describes itself as a vertical animation studio that produces original animated stories and adapts intellectual property that clients already own. Accepted starting points include a new idea, comics, manga and webcomics, video games, scripts and books, podcasts and audiobooks, and toys and characters. The company positions itself as a creative team supported by proprietary technology, with in-house engineers, producers, animators, editors, artists, voice directors and sound designers.
The studio handles the full production process across five stages: IP adaptation and story building, in which source material or a new concept is turned into production-ready scripts and a story universe; visual world building, which develops or preserves a consistent visual style across episodes; cinematic production, covering voice, sound, motion and editing; performance localization, using a network of more than 800 voice actors worldwide for casting and recording; and delivery at scale, using the company's platform and workflows to handle volume from a single title to a hundred.
Business model
StoryCo operates as a production studio serving IP owners and creators, taking a concept or existing property through scripting, visual development, animation, voice and sound production, localization and delivery. Its stated positioning emphasizes low cost and fast turnaround, with platform and workflow tooling intended to support high-volume output.
Traction
StoryCo states it supports WEBTOON in adapting creators' stories into motion, with work spanning multiple videos across multiple titles. Creators whose works StoryCo has animated, including the creators of Superfish, Ordeal, Love 4 A Walk and Fae Trapped, provide testimonials on the company's site.
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Market position
StoryCo positions itself as a vertical animation studio combining a creative team with proprietary production technology, differentiating on production cost and speed relative to conventional animation production.
Stated differentiators are end-to-end handling of the production process under one roof, proprietary technology and workflows designed for high-volume output, a global voice-acting network of more than 800 performers for localization, and an emphasis on low production cost and fast delivery.
Technology
The company states that its creative team is powered by proprietary technology, and that its platform and production workflows are built for volume so that the process holds whether producing one title or a hundred.
Go-to-market
Client engagements are initiated through direct inbound contact via the company's website, where prospective clients submit an idea, comic, manuscript or other source material, or begin with no material at all.
Owners of existing intellectual property and creators seeking adaptation into animated series, including creators of comics, manga and webcomics, video games, scripts and books, podcasts and audiobooks, and toy and character properties. Named client-side creators include Peglo (Superfish), Brent Bristol (Ordeal), Nuria Sanguino (Love 4 A Walk) and Kaitlyn Min (Fae Trapped).
Geography
The company works with a network of over 800 voice actors located around the world for casting and performance localization.
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Key figures
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primary sources listed
- StoryCo Creator Economystory.co · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does StoryCo Creator Economy do?
- StoryCo is a vertical animation studio that creates original animated series and adapts existing IP into episodic video.
- Who founded StoryCo Creator Economy?
- StoryCo Creator Economy was founded by J.P. Alanís in 2013.
- Who are StoryCo Creator Economy's investors?
- StoryCo Creator Economy's investors include Formation VC, Emoote.