News Corp
News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes content for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates in five segments: News and Information Services, Book Publishing, Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, and Other. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and DJX through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, Websites, mobile device applications, tablets and e-book readers, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video, and podcasts. It also owns and operates daily, Sunday, weekly, and bi-weekly newspapers comprising The Australian, The Weekend Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, The Advertiser, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, and New York Post, as well as digital mastheads and other Websites. In addition, the company offers home-delivered shopper media that include free-standing inserts and direct mail products; in-store marketing products and services primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers; in-store merchandising services; and digital marketing solutions. Further, it publishes general fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and religious books; and provides sports programming content to approximately 200 channels distributed through cable, satellite, and Internet protocol, as well as broadcast rights to live sporting events. Additionally, the company offers property and property-related services on its Websites and mobile applications, as well as residential and commercial property Websites; online real estate services; and professional software and services products, which comprise Top Producer, FiveStreet, and ListHub. News Corporation is headquartered in New York, New York.
Past deals in News
Unruly Group Limited
Acquisition in 2015
Unruly is a London-based advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web. Unruly uses emotional audience data and user-friendly video formats to massively increase viewer engagement, brand performance & publisher revenues.
The company was founded in 2006 and acquired by News Corp in 2015.
CloudPress
Acquisition in 2014
CloudPress is a marketing platform that enables brands to create, launch, and track interactive, shoppable campaigns online. Our visual drag-and-drop interface allows brands to quickly and easily create beautiful, shoppable experiences that capture their brand’s identity and showcase their products and services in an engaging way. Once published, the campaigns are fully hosted on our servers and can be immediately shared and embedded across social and web marketing channels. Our analytics dashboard provides a coherent look at metrics aggregated across all channels and gives brands insights to inform their marketing efforts.
Elara Technologies
Venture Round in 2020
Elara Technologies operates as a real estate advisory services company. It offers services such as advertising, marketing, mandate business solutions for realty players, realty consultancy, personalized search, virtual viewing, 3d B2B solutions, site visits, negotiations, home loans, and post-sales service.
iSyndicate
Venture Round in 2000
iSyndicate is the preeminent content syndication service on the Internet, distributing a broad selection of written, graphical, audio and video content from 998 sources, to a vast and diverse network of 257,791 Web sites.
Beyond Oblivion
Private Equity Round in 2011
Beyond Oblivion is a music and technology company founded in 2008 by its CEO, Adam Kidron. Its principle shareholders are Wellcome Trust, News Corporation, Allen & Company, Intertrust Technologies Corporation, and Adam Kidron. Beyond Oblivion's first go-to-market product is boinc.
boinc is a magnetic and social music service that distributes a vast legal music library from a cloud (supplied by majors, independents, and artists the world over), and embeds the right to download and PLAY IT ALL within devices like PCs, tablets, autos and smartphones.
boinc replaces paid-download, paid subscription, and advertiser-supported services with an inexpensive one-time, lifetime-of-device usage fee - paying copyright owners a micro-royalty per play, no matter if the original file were legally or illegally downloaded.
Dow Jones
Acquisition in 2007
Dow Jones is a global news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers, websites, apps, video, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, and radio. It conducts large news-gathering operations with the help of its 2,000 journalists in more than 50 countries, including The Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by total average circulation.
Dow Jones & Co.’s premier brands include Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones VentureSource, and DJX. In 1987, The Ticker, a real-time newswire and the fundamental source for news in the investment community, was announced and Barron’s, America’s premier financial weekly was founded in 1921.
The company’s information services publish in 13 languages and distribute content in 28 languages, combining technology with news and data to support business decision making. It is now serving its users through its paid online news site no matter where there, via web, mobile devices, Internet-connected televisions, and tablets.
Dow Jones & Co. was founded in 1882.
Unigo
Series A in 2009
Unigo’s consumer site has 1.8 million registered users and receives 14 million unique visitors per year. The site provides personalized matches with 6,500 colleges, 700,000 college reviews, 3.6 million scholarships, 90,000 internships and 3.3 million study materials. Unigo’s investors include McGraw-Hill Ventures, Dow Jones Ventures / News Corp, and The Gates Foundation.
Unigo licenses college data and reviews to many mainstream media brands including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, and ABC News. Unigo also created curriculum and tutoring services with McGraw-Hill Education taught in high schools across the country. At b2e.unigo.com, Unigo provides enrollment and market research services directly to colleges and universities.
Each year, Unigo reaches more than 50% of all college-bound students and provides services to approximately 9 million consumers. The company has received awards and recognitions from Facebook, the Webby Awards, the White House, the Viacom / Get Schooled Foundation and more.
Matterport
Venture Round in 2018
Matterport develops and operates a cloud-based platform that enables users to create cloud-based 3D and virtual reality models of real-world spaces that can be experienced, changed, and shared online. Its 3D model allows people to walk through, modify, and share digital environments on devices, such as laptops and iPads.
Matterport also provides Matterport Pro 3D camera to capture visual and spatial data and the appearance and dimensions of space, Matterport Cloud, for cloud hosting and processing, Matterport Spaces for playing web player, and Matterport 3D player, a web-based viewer that enables users to see and navigate through their 3D model. It also offers a 3D Showcase that enables users to navigate and visualize homes and other buildings with multiple floors.
The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
The Tab
Series A in 2017
The Tab is a university news network run by people who like being first. They have teams of writers at leading universities in the US and UK, breaking stories and shooting videos that are seen around the world.
They were founded by three undergraduates at Cambridge University in 2009 as a reaction to out-of-touch student newspapers. Since then, The Tab has grown into a global movement of bold, fearless and entertaining journalists reaching millions of readers every month.
Unigo
Series B in 2012
Unigo’s consumer site has 1.8 million registered users and receives 14 million unique visitors per year. The site provides personalized matches with 6,500 colleges, 700,000 college reviews, 3.6 million scholarships, 90,000 internships and 3.3 million study materials. Unigo’s investors include McGraw-Hill Ventures, Dow Jones Ventures / News Corp, and The Gates Foundation.
Unigo licenses college data and reviews to many mainstream media brands including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, and ABC News. Unigo also created curriculum and tutoring services with McGraw-Hill Education taught in high schools across the country. At b2e.unigo.com, Unigo provides enrollment and market research services directly to colleges and universities.
Each year, Unigo reaches more than 50% of all college-bound students and provides services to approximately 9 million consumers. The company has received awards and recognitions from Facebook, the Webby Awards, the White House, the Viacom / Get Schooled Foundation and more.
mTag
Pre Seed Round in 2018
mTag is the utility empowering professional creatives to be paid for the attention their media captures anywhere across the internet, by serving advertising within or around it wherever it's published.
mTag was founded with the mission to develop technology to create a world of freedom and equal opportunity, where everyone can live fulfilled lives in pursuit of their passions and be rewarded deservingly for the value they add to the world.
AppNexus
Venture Round in 2016
Provides trading solutions and powers marketplaces for internet advertising
Matterport
Venture Round in 2016
Matterport develops and operates a cloud-based platform that enables users to create cloud-based 3D and virtual reality models of real-world spaces that can be experienced, changed, and shared online. Its 3D model allows people to walk through, modify, and share digital environments on devices, such as laptops and iPads.
Matterport also provides Matterport Pro 3D camera to capture visual and spatial data and the appearance and dimensions of space, Matterport Cloud, for cloud hosting and processing, Matterport Spaces for playing web player, and Matterport 3D player, a web-based viewer that enables users to see and navigate through their 3D model. It also offers a 3D Showcase that enables users to navigate and visualize homes and other buildings with multiple floors.
The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
iList
Acquisition in 2010
iList was a social classifieds service trying to take on Craigslist. It let you cross-post your listings on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and Pownce. It also tried to tap into your friends and contacts to get them to promote your listings to their friends. The site is no longer in service.
Investor's Business Daily
Acquisition in 2021
Since 1984, Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) has been helping ordinary people achieve extraordinary results.
This is done with a unique step-by-step investing strategy anyone can use to systematically achieve financial freedom over time.
And it works. According to an independent, real-time study of more than 50 leading strategies by the American Association of Individual Investors from January 1998 through December 2012, their system — known as CAN SLIM® — gained 24.7% compared to a gain of just 2.6% for the S & P 500.
Over the last quarter-century, countless investors have paid off their homes, put their children through college and built the foundation for a worry-free retirement, by following IBD’s CAN SLIM strategy for growing - and protecting - their money.
It’s an approach based on historical fact, not opinion. And anyone can use it successfully. Find out how by learning more about their investing discipline, products & services, and company history.
SpringHill Entertainment
Venture Round in 2020
SpringHill Entertainment creates compelling stories for television, features, and digital. SpringHill pride ourselves on incubating, developing, and producing work that speaks to a cross-cultural audience.
Oil Price Information Service (OPIS)
Acquisition in 2021
OPIS, a subsidiary of UCG, is a leading source for worldwide petroleum pricing and news information and has offices in Gaithersburg, MD; Wall, NJ; St. Paul, MN; Gothenburg, Sweden and Singapore. Every day, OPIS publishes spot prices for all refined products, more than 30,000 wholesale gasoline and diesel rack prices and more than 110,000 retail fuel prices (www.opisnet.com). Through its subsidiary, Axxis Software, OPIS also provides leading-edge software solutions for petroleum marketers looking to automate price collection, data storage and repricing of dealer and commercial accounts. (www.axxispetro.com)
Move
Acquisition in 2014
Move, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) is the leader in online real estate with 12.7 million(1) monthly visitors to its online network of websites. Move, Inc. operates: Move.com, a leading destination for information on new homes and rental listings, moving, home and garden and home finance; REALTOR.com(R) the official website of the National Association of REALTORS(R); Moving.com; SeniorHousingNet; and TOP PRODUCER Systems. Move, Inc. is based in Campbell, California.
AdChina
Series B in 2009
AdChina, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, operates an integrated Internet advertising platform in the People's Republic of China. Its platform offers software and related technical support services that deliver advertisements from advertisers to Websites or mobile apps or sites of publishers. Its platform comprises AdChina AdManager system that tracks available advertising space from publishers, processes orders from advertisers, analyzes audience data, and matches advertisements to their target audience. The company’s platform also includes AdChina Demand Platform, a proprietary Internet advertising platform for advertising agencies and advertisers; and AdChina Supply Platform, a proprietary Internet advertising operating system for Internet publishers, as well as integrates AdManager for Publisher for online publishers, and AdManager for Mobile for mobile publishers. It offers Internet advertising services and solutions directly to the advertisers and indirectly through advertising agencies. AdChina, Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Shanghai, China. As of January 14, 2015, AdChina, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
Skiff
Acquisition in 2010
Skiff (formerly FirstPaper) is an e-reading and advertising company formed to address the needs of consumers, publishers, and advertisers as print media increasingly migrates to new forms of digital consumption. This includes the emerging class of dedicated e-readers and reading-friendly devices, which create new opportunities and demand new business approaches.
Headquarters located in NYC with second office in Palo Alto, CA.
Wego Pte Ltd.
Series A in 2008
Wego provides award winning travel search websites and top ranked mobile apps for travelers living in MENA and APAC regions. Wego harnesses powerful yet simple to use technology that automates the process of searching and comparing results from hundreds of airlines, hotels and online travel agency websites. Wego presents an unbiased comparison of all travel products and prices offered in the marketplace by merchants, both local and global, and enables shoppers to quickly find the best deal and place to book whether from an airline or hotel direct, or with a third party aggregator website. Wego was founded in 2005, is dual-headquartered in Singapore and Dubai and backed by investors including Tiger Global Management, Crescent Point Group, SquarePeg Capital, MBC Group and Middle East Venture Partners.
Intermix Media
Acquisition in 2005
provides content via a network of websites including myspace.
A leading online media and ecommerce enterprise, Intermix Media (Amex: MIX) and its subsidiaries utilize proprietary technologies and analytical marketing to develop unique content, an active community and innovative ecommerce offerings. The Intermix Network blends user-generated and proprietary online content to motivate its users to spend more time on its Network and to invite their friends to join them. By integrating social networking applications, self-publishing and viral marketing, the Intermix Network has grown to over 27 million unique visitors per month. Intermix also leverages its optimization technologies, marketing methodologies and the Internet through its Alena unit, where it launches branded consumer product offerings. Alena expands Intermix’s consumer reach by marketing select high margin and innovative products directly to the consumer across the Internet. In doing so, Alena cost-effectively builds consumer brands and drives new users back to the Intermix Network.
Roku
Series H in 2015
Roku pioneered streaming for the TV, and we aspire to power every TV in the world. We developed a streaming platform that delivers a best-in-class user experience. At the heart of the Roku platform is our proprietary operating system, the Roku OS, which we built from the ground up. Roku is recognized for streaming innovation. This is demonstrated by our growing, passionate and highly engaged customer base who love Roku streaming devices because of our coveted content selection, ease of use, and value.
MySpace Music
Acquisition in 2005
Myspace LLC operates as a social networking website. It allows its members to set up personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. The company offers its members to share photos, music, post journals and comments, describe their interests, and play social games. It also offers application programming interfaces (API) that allow developers to leverage public MySpace data and create applications to socialize content on and off MySpace. The company serves families, business people and co-workers, and classmates and study partners. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Myspace LLC operates as a subsidiary of TI Gotham Inc.
NWS Digital India Pvt Ltd
Acquisition in 2014
NWS Digital India Private Limited operates an online finance planning portal.
Vidora
Seed Round in 2017
Vidora’s mission is to enhance the performance of Marketing and Product teams with No-Code Machine Learning. Our Machine Learning Platform, Cortex, allows teams to use predictions to continually optimize conversions and engagement, while providing end-to-end automation, allowing teams to create hundreds of predictions without the risk and cost of building in house.
The largest global brands like Walmart, News Corp, and Discovery, leverage Cortex to intelligently learn from continuous streams of raw data to drive higher performance and automation across the enterprise.
GetPrice
Acquisition in 2010
GetPrice is an Australian online Comparison Shopping Engine offering product and price comparisons from primarily Australian retailers as a free service to consumers. The information on the GetPrice site helps people find the right product at the right price from the right merchant.
A range of product categories are covered, including consumer electronics, home and garden, fashion and cosmetics, games and entertainment.
News Technology Services
Acquisition in 2017
NTS is an essential part of News Corp’s global technology strategy. We work directly with News Corp’s global brands to offer a range of technology services, including web development, application support, infrastructure management and cyber operations
BeliefNet
Acquisition in 2007
Beliefnet offers a variety of resources related to spirituality (articles, quizzes, devotionals, sacred text searches, message boards, prayer circles, photo galleries and more). Their mission is to "help people like you find, and walk, a spiritual path that will bring comfort, hope, clarity, strength, and happiness."
Endemol Shine UK
Acquisition in 2011
Endemol Shine UK is one of Britain's largest independent production companies and is behind some of TV's biggest hits.
Their diverse range of hits includes Big Brother, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Grantchester, MasterChef, One Born Every Minute, Peaky Blinders, Pointless, Sunday Brunch, The Fall, The Island, Vicious, 8 out of 10 Cats and many more.
Labels within the UK Group include Artists Studio, Bandit Television, Brown Eyed Boy, Cave Bear Productions, DSP, Dragonfly, Fifty Fathoms, House of Tomorrow, Initial, Kudos, Princess Productions, Remarkable Television, Shine North, Shine TV, Tiger Aspect, Tigress and Zeppotron.
Harlequin
Acquisition in 2014
Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women. The Toronto-based company publishes more than 110 titles a month in 34 languages in 110 international markets on six continents. These books are written by over 1,300 talented authors worldwide, offering women a broad range of reading from bestseller fi ction to romance, from young adult novels to nonfi ction, from African-American novels to inspirational romance, and more. With half of its books sold overseas and a tremendous 95% outside Canadait is both the country's most successful publisher and one of its most international businesses.
OmniSky
Venture Round in 2000
In January 2002, OmniSky Corporation sold substantially all of its assets to EarthLink, Inc., including its subscriber base, all of its intellectual property rights, and key network assets, pursuant to its filing for Bankruptcy. The company prior to selling its assets was a global developer and provider of wireless data applications and services for users of mobile devices.
BigDecisions
Acquisition in 2014
BigDecisions.com, a News Corp owned site, aims to help Indian consumers make smarter financial decisions through interactive, decision-making tools powered by sophisticated algorithms and data. Its mission is to provide a platform to deliver unbiased information and analysis to consumers on topics ranging from life and health insurance and retirement planning to providing for a child’s education or buying and renting real estate.
Scroll
Seed Round in 2016
Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise. They want to pierce filter bubbles and leverage economic models that can afford uncomfortable truths. It's time to escape the distraction economy and focus on what's important again.
Fox Entertainment Group
Acquisition in 2005
Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. operates as an entertainment company. It operates through four segments: Filmed Entertainment, Television Stations, Television Broadcast Network, and Cable Network Programming. The Filmed Entertainment segment engages in feature film and television production and distribution. The Television Stations segment owns and operates power broadcast television stations. The Television Broadcast Network segment provides broadcasting of network programming. The Cable Network Programming segment holds interests in cable network programming businesses in the areas of news, sports, general entertainment, and movies. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is based in New York, New York. Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of News Corp.
Beyond Oblivion
Series B in 2010
Beyond Oblivion is a music and technology company founded in 2008 by its CEO, Adam Kidron. Its principle shareholders are Wellcome Trust, News Corporation, Allen & Company, Intertrust Technologies Corporation, and Adam Kidron. Beyond Oblivion's first go-to-market product is boinc.
boinc is a magnetic and social music service that distributes a vast legal music library from a cloud (supplied by majors, independents, and artists the world over), and embeds the right to download and PLAY IT ALL within devices like PCs, tablets, autos and smartphones.
boinc replaces paid-download, paid subscription, and advertiser-supported services with an inexpensive one-time, lifetime-of-device usage fee - paying copyright owners a micro-royalty per play, no matter if the original file were legally or illegally downloaded.
Rubicon Project
Venture Round in 2010
Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems.
The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally.
PropTiger
Venture Round in 2014
Headquartered in the National Capital Region of Delhi (NCR), PropTiger has been founded by alumni of Harvard Business School, IIT and ISB who possess decades of combined experience in real estate in India as well as abroad.
PropTiger has a team of real estate experts spread across 8 cities in India, namely Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. Each of our staff is well trained across various aspects of buying residential property – we assist you right from narrowing down the various options to selecting the ideal property for you and completing the final paperwork related to the transaction. Rest assured, that our assistance is completely transparent.
Mahalo
Series B in 2007
Inside- Online web directory and knowledge-sharing service that helps individuals find information
GetPrice
Series A in 2007
GetPrice is an Australian online Comparison Shopping Engine offering product and price comparisons from primarily Australian retailers as a free service to consumers. The information on the GetPrice site helps people find the right product at the right price from the right merchant.
A range of product categories are covered, including consumer electronics, home and garden, fashion and cosmetics, games and entertainment.
RelateIQ
Series C in 2014
Now known as [SalesforceIQ](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforceiq), RelateIQ, a salesforce.com company, has re-thought customer relationship management from the ground up, building the world's first Relationship Intelligence platform. It automatically captures data on your most important sales prospects, making it easy to collaborate with your teammates to close deals faster. The platform works everywhere you work, whether it's on a mobile app in your pocket or in your email inbox through a browser extension, and advanced data science capabilities mean RelateIQ will provide the insights you need before you even realize you need them. RelateIQ helps our customers drive more revenue and save hours of time, all while making their jobs less work. For more information on how RelateIQ is changing the way the world works, please connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
Wireless Generation
Acquisition in 2010
Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems, and services that help educators teach smarter. With its mobile assessment software, the company invented a better way to give classroom assessments and make data-based instructional decisions. Wireless Generation has broken new ground with technology that analyzes student data and provides curriculum customized to individual learning needs. Wireless Generation also builds large-scale data systems that centralize student data and give educators and parents unprecedented visibility into learning. A Web 2.0 collaboration and knowledge network for educators propagates proven approaches across schools. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students
YES Network
Acquisition in 2012
The YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country the past 10 years, features the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nets. YES, which has earned 300 Emmy Award nominations and 67 Emmy Awards since launch, also televises original biography, interview and magazine programs, inaddition to college sports. All programming produced by YES is in HD.
Roku
Series E in 2012
Roku pioneered streaming for the TV, and we aspire to power every TV in the world. We developed a streaming platform that delivers a best-in-class user experience. At the heart of the Roku platform is our proprietary operating system, the Roku OS, which we built from the ground up. Roku is recognized for streaming innovation. This is demonstrated by our growing, passionate and highly engaged customer base who love Roku streaming devices because of our coveted content selection, ease of use, and value.
DIRECTV
Acquisition in 2003
Digital entertainment services provider delivering sports, news, movies, family and local programming channels
VCCircle
Acquisition in 2015
VCCircle Network is an online financial media and information group with presence in news, data, events, and training.
The company’s flagship website VCCircle.com provides news, information and analytics for the Indian investment ecosystem, covering investments, M&A, venture capital, private equity, investment banking, and emerging companies and sectors. This is in addition to VCCEdge, a comprehensive database of VC, PE, and M&A deals; IPOs; directories; private and public company information; financials; shareholding structures; professionals; and key developments related to companies.
The VCCircle Network organizes over 18 conferences every year across industry verticals and have over a dozen annual properties now running in multi-year editions. Over 15,000 delegates and 1,500 speakers have attended the events since its inception in 2007. Since its launch in June 2011, the training division has also organized about 30 training workshops in finance, legal, and regulatory topics targeted at Indian corporate, financial, and legal professionals. About 1000 participants have attended the workshops since its inception. The VCCircle application is now available for iOS and Android devices.
VCCircle Network was founded in 2005 and is based in Noida, India, along with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore. The company currently operates as a subsidiary of Mosaic Media Ventures.
Wireless Group plc
Acquisition in 2016
Wireless Group is one of the most successful media groups in the UK and Ireland and part of the News Corp portfolio of brands, comprising a highly focused radio division with market leading assets and a growing digital division incorporating Simply Zesty and Tibus.
Wireless Group GB comprises 16 radio stations across England and Wales, including talkSPORT, the world's biggest sports radio station and global audio partner of the Premier League, talkSPORT 2, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio. It also owns Sport, the UK's biggest sports magazine and has stakes in eight of the UK's digital radio multiplexes.
Hughes Network Systems
Funding Round in 2003
Founded in 1971, Hughes Network Systems is a satellite broadband solutions and services company based in Germantown. The organisation provides managed network services and applications in the United States.
Roku
Series F in 2013
Roku pioneered streaming for the TV, and we aspire to power every TV in the world. We developed a streaming platform that delivers a best-in-class user experience. At the heart of the Roku platform is our proprietary operating system, the Roku OS, which we built from the ground up. Roku is recognized for streaming innovation. This is demonstrated by our growing, passionate and highly engaged customer base who love Roku streaming devices because of our coveted content selection, ease of use, and value.
Ezuza
Series A in 2011
Ezuza, Inc. provides mobile payment solutions with a focus on emerging markets. It offers online and mobile payments services, including air-time top-ups, person to person transfers, international remittances, bill payments, and customized corporate payment solutions.
It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
Storyful
Acquisition in 2013
Storyful was established in December 2009 by Mark Little, award winning former RTE journalist. It is the first news agency designed for the social media age. Storyful is an online publishing platform for news stories which combines journalistic skills, curation technology and an online community to turn social media noise into streams of relevant news.
The business gathers the most valuable content from social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook and delivers it to global news organisations though its StoryfulPro product. Storyful has developed curation partnerships with a number of established global media brands. 36 Real time stories challenge the old rules of news. They don’t fit neat categories. They refuse distinctions between professional and amateur. Language is tight. Less is always more.
They believe every story starts with a single voice. There is no such thing as a scoop, just a story before its inflection point. Storyful’s golden rule is there is ALWAYS someone closer to the story.
