Inshorts

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Inshorts is a news aggregator and content distribution company based in India that publishes a software app that sends out news stories in 60-word bites. [1] [2]

The co-founders are Azhar Iqubal (Chairman), [3] Anunay Pandey (Director), and Deepit Purkayastha (CEO). [4]

Funding

Inshorts has raised a total funding of $119M over six venture capital rounds. [5] Its first funding round was on 5 September, 2013. Its latest funding round was a Series D round on Jul 15, 2021, for $60M. [6] One investor, Vy Capital, participated in its latest round. [7]

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