A New Venture Studio Is Betting That It Can Scale Up Left-Leaning Creators (Exclusive)

The creator economy is booming and growing, but there is a feeling that many left-leaning creators are falling behind many of their counterparts on the right, at least in terms of financial stability, if not influence.

So a new “venture studio” called And Media is betting that it can fill in those gaps, bolstering creators and shows in a bid to help them fulfill their destinies of becoming the next culturally relevant independent studios.

“We believe that the value in digital media, cultural, monetary and otherwise lies in the scalable formats, stories, franchises, IP born from creator-led brands,” says Christian Tom, And Media’s CEO. “And we think that is the tectonic shift that is happening in culture today and, in our assessment, is increasingly shaped by digital creators, as opposed to kind of traditional institutions, and that’s kind of the foundational thesis for the company itself.”

The founders,…