69 Best News Startups to Watch in 2024

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of News Startups

We track 22,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 10 start-ups . with an aggregate funding of $1.3B. The average funding per company in this subset is $132M. The list encompasses 11 founders. It includes data on 11 professionals within these filtered companies.

Last update to the database: Nov 19, 2024. See changelog.

Reddit

Reddit is an online platform for social news. It allows communities to submit links, create content, and discuss any topic of their interest.

PublishingTechnologySoftware

Location:

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California

United States

Founded:

2005-01-01

Employees:

501 - 999

Seedtable Rank:

# 185

Total Raised: $1327.10M

Last Funding: $410.00M (Series F)

Key People:

Steve Huffman - CEO

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Newsle

Newsle is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2010 by Axel Hansen.

NewsSocial newsContent discovery platform

Location:

Employees:

1 - 9

Seedtable Rank:

# 13148

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Toutiao

Toutiao is a news aggregation app and website founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming.

TechnologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)News

Location:

🇨🇳 Beijing, Beijing

China

Employees:

1001 - 4999

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed is digital media and technology company delivering news and entertainment content.

Social mediaEntertainmentNews

Location:

Employees:

1001 - 4999

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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PandoDaily

PandoDaily is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012.

Location:

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California

United States

Employees:

11 - 49

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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Evie Labs

Evie Labs is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2013 by David Zhao, Russ d'Sa, Jin Hian Lee and David Schwartz.

Machine learningTechnologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Location:

Employees:

11 - 49

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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The Times of India

The Times of India is a Mumbai-based company founded in 1838.

TechnologyEntertainmentEducation

Location:

🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra

India

Founded:

1838-01-01

Employees:

5001 - 9999

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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Personera

Personera is a Cape Town-based company founded in 2009.

PublishingEducationNews

Location:

Employees:

11 - 49

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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GONG (company)

GONG is a company founded in 1997 by Itzik Ben-Bassat.

Social mediaNewsSocial news

Location:

Employees:

11 - 49

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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Inside.com

Inside.com is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 by Jason Calacanis.

Digital mediaNewsSocial news

Location:

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California

United States

Employees:

11 - 49

Seedtable Rank:

# 13623

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is an american web portal and online service provider founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang, David Filo and Robby Stein.

AdvertisingTechnologyFinance

Location:

🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California

United States

Founded:

1994-01-01

Seedtable Rank:

# 14831

Key People:

Jerry Yang - CEO
Jim Lanzone - CEO
Thomas J. McInerney - CEO

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Banjo (company)

Banjo is a Redwood City, California-based company founded by Damien Patton.

TechnologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Social media

Location:

Seedtable Rank:

# 14831

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Axios Media

Axios Media is a news media company known for its short-form articles. Axios Media was founded in 2016 by three former staff of Politico.

Digital mediaNewsJournalism

Location:

Employees:

501 - 999

Seedtable Rank:

# 17212

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Scribd

Scribd is a digital library providing subscription service for e-books, audiobooks and other documents.

PublishingTechnologyE-commerce

Location:

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California

United States

Employees:

201 - 499

Seedtable Rank:

# 19522

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BeyondWords

BeyondWords (formerly SpeechKit) is a London-based artificial intelligence company developing synthetic voices, tools, and integrations for publishers and companies audio.

Machine learningTechnologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Location:

Seedtable Rank:

# 20559

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Engadget

Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics

TechnologySocial mediaBlog

Location:

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California

United States

Employees:

51 - 199

Seedtable Rank:

# 22559

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Citizen (mobile application)

Citizen is U.S-based company (legal name: sp0n, Inc.) developing a public safety mobile application.

AppsInternetEntertainment

Location:

Employees:

51 - 199

Seedtable Rank:

# 22559

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MIC

MIC is a Munich-based company founded in 2011 by Christopher Altchek.

Digital mediaNews

Location:

🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria

Germany

Employees:

51 - 199

Seedtable Rank:

# 22559

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TheBlaze

TheBlaze is an Irving, Texas-based company founded in 2018 by Glenn Beck.

EntertainmentNews

Location:

🇺🇸 Dallas, Oregon

United States

Employees:

51 - 199

Seedtable Rank:

# 22559

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