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SmartNews was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Shibuya, JP
SmartNews Office Locations
SmartNews has an office in Shibuya
SmartNews Data and Metrics
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Founding Date | 2012 |
Total Funding | $88.3 m |
Latest funding size | $38 m |
Time since last funding | about 1 year |
Investors | Globis Capital Partners, Atomico, Development Bank of Japan, mixi Inc., SMBC Venture Capital, Social Venture Partners, William Lohse, GREE, Shogo Kawada, Japan Co-Invest Limited Partnership |
SmartNews's latest funding round in July 2016 was reported to be $38 m. In total, SmartNews has raised $88.3 m
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SmartNews News and Updates
July 08, 2016
Could SmartNews Prove To Be The Media's Unlikely Sidekick?
The news app is raising more money and once again heading for the U.S.In the wake of Facebook's decision to pull back from publishers and focus more on connecting friends and family, the media is looking for a distribution method it can count on. SmartNews, which just raised $38 million, is hoping t…
July 08, 2016
News discovery app SmartNews nabs another $38M, now valued at $500M-$600M
As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan has landed a new round of funding to raise its own game. SmartNews — a news aggregation app that works with some 1,500 publications and selects stories for y…