Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. A leading global webnovel platform, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans.
Wattpad is part of WEBTOON Entertainment’s IP & Creator Ecosystem, where approximately 145 million monthly active users discover incredible stories in multiple formats.
The company is proudly based in Toronto, Canada.
Learn more at: company.wattpad.com
Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st century - the most data-driven, the most AI-driven company in the world of entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures. Most recently, we launched CandyJar TV, where we’re turning the million-dollar hits into actual TV series and directly selling them episode by episode.
The Episode app is a mobile storytelling network and platform that has been installed over 125 million times. Episode features interactive Hollywood-caliber stories built from the ground up for mobile, not the passive entertainment of TV and movies. In Episode, your choices decide the path of your story.
There have been over 4.4 billion episodes viewed on Episode so far, which adds up to over 83,000 years of combined viewing time! We’ve also opened up our storytelling platform and have the world’s largest community of interactive stories and storytellers, with over 12 million registered creators and 84,000 stories.
Episode's umbrella company is Pocket Gems, funded by Tencent and Sequoia.