SmartNews

The problem and how we solve it:

● Genuine, quality news delivery is one of the most important and difficult problems facing mankind—one not even the world’s biggest platforms have solved
● Our world-class machine learning and data science teams develop solutions for diversification, political diversity, fake news, clickbait detection and other measures for quality—we crawl, analyze and categorize millions of articles in near real-time

The result:

● Top 5 installed app in Japan (alongside LINE, Instagram and YouTube), #1 News App in Japan and #3 News App in the US in terms of time spent per user
● 50M+ downloads and 20M+ MAU, 1.8 billion monthly pageviews and high-growth, nine-figure revenue
● 3,000+ publisher partners including: CNN, TIME, VICE, Medium, Rolling Stone, Reuters
● Series E valuation: $1.2 billion - $182 total raised to date