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For investors and potential partners

Help build a place
where stories take shape.

Help build an environment where authors can think, write, and keep developing their work. We welcome conversations about business, technology, creative culture, and funding.

The thinking behind our work

NovelShaft is building a creative environment that keeps authors in control and helps shape the future of light novels from Japan. Our article explains our commitment to this culture and our approach to AI and business.

Read where NovelShaft is headed

For investors

Funding and investment partnership

Discuss funding and investment partnerships to support research, development, and ongoing operations, and help grow the business.

  • Funding research and development of writing experiences
  • Building a business that supports ongoing service and improvement
  • Long-term investment partnerships that share respect for authors and their work

This page is not a general solicitation or offer of investment on specified terms. Materials and possible terms are considered individually after confirming purpose and relationship.

Discuss funding or investment

For organizations

Business collaboration

Bring different areas of expertise together to expand how authors create and how their works reach readers.

  • Publishing and editorial work — develop stories and bring them to readers
  • Creator support, education, and communities — help writers learn and continue
  • Technology and research — develop and evaluate writing experiences with AI
  • Audio, narration, and distribution — create more ways to encounter stories
  • Projects and service integrations — connect writing with what comes before and after

A finished proposal is not required. We can first clarify each side’s purpose and the value for authors and their works.

Discuss collaboration

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