The Signal - We are funded!
Dear readers, We are almost never the first to break news. But we are often the first to make sense of breaking news. So it is when we are the news. TechCrunch reported on Monday that some of the most high-profile investors in the country, including unicorn founders, have invested in Frontpage Media Technologies, The Signal’s parent company. “India, and eventually the world, needs an outlet that goes beyond newsflashes and gets deep into nuanced reportage through a mix of curation, original writing, and new formats of sense-making,” TechCrunch quoted one of our investors, Miten Sampat of CRED, as saying. So, who’s in?InstitutionalLetsVenture (lead) Good Capital Rainmatter Fintech Fund Capital A IndividualRadhakrishnan Ramachandran, Digital media entrepreneur Samir Pitalwala, Head, Gaming, APAC, Google Cloud Mukund Kulasekaran, CBO - Urban Company Rajneesh Kumar, SVP and Chief Corporate Officer, Flipkart Group Aneesh Sivakumar, Director, KKR Abhay Jaipuria, Partner Parry Ravindranathan, CEO & Co-founder, Converj Sunish Kumar, Founder & CEO, Vansun Mediatech (91wheels, UTM, Giznext) Kavita Rajwade, Co-founder, IVM Podcasts Himangi Tiwari and Joji Thomas Phillip, Founder and editor in chief, Deal Street Asia Amit Doshi, Co-founder, IVM Podcasts Nilay Arora, Country Head & VP, Tencent Tanay Tayal, Co-founder and CEO, MoonFrog Labs Rohit Raj, Co-founder, The Glitch and Chtrbox Ajay Candade, Ex-KKR private equity, and Managing Partner, New Fund (Yet to be announced) Anusha Mahalingam, Co-founder, LessonLeap Deepinder Goyal, Co-founder and CEO, Zomato Gaurav Munjal, Co-founder and CEO, Unacademy Miten Sampat (CRED) and Aakrit Vaish (Haptik), Meta Studio Advisors Ashishkumar Bairagra, Partner, ML Bhuwania and Co LLP Ashwini Ashokan, Co-founder, Blox, Vue and MadStreetDen Umang Kumar, Co-founder, CarDekho Paresh Shah, Managing Director, Excel Debt Broking Pvt Ltd Niraj Dalal, Partner, 3A Capital Advisors Mohan Goel, Managing Director, Sheel Group of Companies Jayram Iyer, CTO, ManpowerGroup India Pvt Ltd Aditya Goel, Early Stage Investor These investors are backing us for our storytelling ability and to build what we call the media company of the future. Our products will be edgy and relevant to the global citizen. We thank the investors for their support. Editor, The Signal. If you liked this post from The Signal, why not share it? |
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