Founded in 2012, SmartNews operates in news aggregation app. The latest valuation stands at $1.8B. No public ticker exists for the company.
One company valuation: $1.8B, dated Sep 2021.
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MixiLEADNNaoto KawadaGREEMixiSmartNews is a Japanese technology company that operates the SmartNews news-aggregation smartphone app, originally founded as Gokuro Inc. in Tokyo before being renamed SmartNews, Inc. The app delivers trending news daily from a network of over 3,000 media partners, and it launched in English in the U.S. in 2014 and is now available in more than 150 countries.
SmartNews has developed a news-recommendation algorithm that promises to serve its readers a personalized, but politically balanced range of stories, positioning itself against the received wisdom in American media that polarization sells. Its readers span Japan and the United States.
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No. SmartNews is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.
The last valuation is $1.8B.
Lead investors for each round are in the funding timeline.
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