News and local language content platform Dailyhunt has raised about $23.5 million (Rs 180 crore) in a Series G funding round from existing investors, including Bytedance, Falcon Edge, Goldman Sachs and Advent Management, according to its regulatory filings sourced by paper.vc.
Dailyhunt has allotted a total of 1.38 lakh Series G1 convertible preference shares to the investors to raise the aforesaid amount, the filings show. Falcon Edge has led the current round by contributing about Rs 71.85 crore while Bytedance, Goldman Sachs Asia and Advent Management Belgium have pumped in Rs 35.92 crore each into the Bengaluru-based startup.
The startup’s valuation is estimated to have touched Rs 4,164 crore in the current round, Entrackr reported.
Dailyhunt, which is run by Verse Innovation Pvt. Ltd, Dailyhunt, had raised about $3 million from Cayman Islands-based Stonebridge in August last year, taking its total Series F funding round to $25 million.
Last year, DealStreetAsia had reported that the private equity firm Carlyle had evinced interest to buy an equity stake in the news aggregator. The platform was reportedly also in talks to raise about $150 million from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank.
Founded in 2007, Dailyhunt’s machine learning and deep learning technology enables smart curation of content and tracks user preferences to deliver real-time, personalised content and notifications. It claims to offer 250,000+ new news and content artifacts every-day in 14 languages licensed from over 1000+ publication partners. The group has 252+ million monthly active users and 51+ million daily active users, according to its LinkedIn profile.
Its other investors include Sequoia Capital and Omidyar Network.
