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Inshorts is a technology company.
Inshorts develops a mobile application designed to deliver current affairs and news content in concise, 60-word summaries. The platform leverages an AI engine to personalize user feeds, categorize articles across diverse topics, and aggregate information from numerous sources, ensuring users receive essential facts efficiently. This approach simplifies news consumption for busy individuals.
The company was founded in 2013 by Azhar Iqubal, Anunay Arunav, and Deepit Purkayastha. Their initial insight stemmed from observing the modern mobile user's struggle to keep abreast of news amidst time constraints and information overload, identifying a clear market need for a quick and digestible news format that prioritizes brevity and speed without sacrificing critical information.
Inshorts primarily serves individuals who seek rapid access to information and a streamlined news experience on their mobile devices. The company's vision is to remain a leading platform for efficient news delivery, continuously evolving its content curation and presentation to cater to the dynamic needs and preferences of its global audience, enabling them to stay informed effortlessly.
Inshorts has raised $159.0M across 6 funding rounds.
Inshorts has raised $159.0M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Inshorts has raised $159.0M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Inshorts's investors include Vamsi Duvvuri, Lee Fixel, SIG Venture Capital, Tanglin Venture Partners, 9Yards Capital, Addition, Tiger Global, Shailesh Mehta, Binny Bansal, Sachin Bansal, Rebright Partners.
Inshorts is a Noida-based technology company that builds mobile apps delivering news and hyperlocal updates in concise, 60-word formats or short videos, targeting busy users seeking quick, unbiased information.[1][2][3] Its core products include the flagship Inshorts app, which uses AI and human curation for personalized news feeds across categories like national, political, world, business, and sports, and the Public app, launched in 2019, which provides hyperlocal video content from over 660 districts in India to more than 100 million registered users.[2][4] Inshorts solves the problem of information overload in traditional media by distilling essentials without opinions or fluff, serving urban millennials and first-time internet users in tier 2/3 cities and rural areas, with strong growth evidenced by 10 million+ downloads, rapid user surges during the pandemic, and expansions into multiple Indian languages.[3][4]
Founded in 2013 by IIT Delhi alumni Azhar Iqubal, Deepit Purkayastha, and Anunay Pandey, Inshorts started as a Facebook page summarizing news articles to address the founders' frustration with lengthy, opinionated media.[2][3] The idea emerged from their own need for fact-only news amid busy lives, leading to the app's launch in April 2014, which hit 10k users within weeks.[2] Early traction came via seed funding in June 2014 from Times Internet, TBO.com, and Flipkart founders, followed by Series A in February 2015 from Tiger Global, Rebright Partners, and Flipkart founders; pivotal moments include the 2019 Public app launch, which topped Play Store's News category and scaled to 1 million+ monthly video updates from creators.[2][4]
Inshorts rides the wave of short-form content consumption and India's mobile-first digital boom, where users favor quick videos and snippets amid rising smartphone penetration in tier 2/3/rural areas.[2][4] Timing aligns with pandemic-driven demand for hyperlocal info, boosting Public 10-fold, and AI advancements enabling precise targeting in a fragmented media market.[4] Favorable forces include India's 660M+ internet users preferring vernacular content, ad revenue from innovative formats, and cloud scalability for low-latency delivery; it influences the ecosystem by empowering creators, reducing news access barriers, and pioneering AI-curated, unbiased journalism in emerging markets.[1][2][3]
Inshorts is poised for global expansion leveraging its Google Cloud infrastructure and AI prowess, potentially scaling hyperlocal models beyond India while deepening video and multilingual offerings.[2][4] Trends like AI-driven personalization, short-video dominance (e.g., akin to TikTok/Reels), and rising creator economies will propel growth, with ad tech and data analytics unlocking monetization. Its influence may evolve from India-centric aggregator to a global short-form info leader, sustaining momentum through unbiased, accessible content that started as a simple FB page.
Inshorts has raised $159.0M across 6 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $60.0M Other Equity in July 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2021 | $60.0M Other Equity | Vamsi Duvvuri | |
| Sep 30, 2020 | $35.0M Other Equity | Lee Fixel | SIG Venture Capital, Tanglin Venture Partners |
| Sep 1, 2020 | $35.0M Venture Round | 9Yards Capital, Addition | |
| Dec 1, 2017 | $5.0M Venture Round | 9Yards Capital, Addition | |
| Jul 1, 2015 | $20.0M Series B | Tiger Global | 9Yards Capital, Addition, Shailesh Mehta |
| Feb 1, 2015 | $4.0M Series A | Lee Fixel | 9Yards Capital, Addition, Binny Bansal, Sachin Bansal, Rebright Partners |