Wand.app, an AI-powered creative tool that gives artists the ability to manually customize and visualize their ideas, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by O’Shaughnessy Ventures. Unlike AI-powered creative tools that provide limited control over the content they generate, which can be alienating to artists who have specific visions for what they want to create, Wand tries to bridge this gap with a combination of visual tools and personalization.
Founded in December 2021, Wand is the brainchild of CEO and founder Grant Davis. Although there are many tools that allow users to create complex images with text prompts, the last thing Wand.app wants to do is use AI to replace human creativity and imagination, Davis told TechCrunch.
“We should strive towards an ideal where if an artist already has a specific visual in mind, they can use this tech to bring that exact vision to life without making any compromises,” Davis said. “Unfortunately, since words are too am...
