WittyFeed
WittyFeed
Type of business | Private held company |
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Media] andEntertainment | |
Available in | English],Hindi,Spanish |
Founded | October 2014 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | Vatsana Technologies (2014-present) |
Key people | Vinay Singhal (Co-founder and CEO) Shashank Vaishnav (Co-founder & CTO) Parveen Singhal (Co-founder & COO) |
Revenue | $6 Million (2016) |
Employees | 120+ |
Slogan(s) | Beyond Stories |
Website | |
Alexarank | 224 (June 2017) |
Registration | Optional |
Current status | Active |
WittyFeed is India’s largest viral content company and the world’s second largest in terms of traffic numbers after BuzzFeed. It is among the top 200 websites in the world with 120 million unique visitors to its website every month and more than 420 million monthly page views. It is the first company from India to be among the top 75 and top 25 most-read websites in the US and the UK. It gets 75% of the traffic from US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Type of business | Private held company |
---|---|
Media] andEntertainment | |
Available in | English],Hindi,Spanish |
Founded | October 2014 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | Vatsana Technologies (2014-present) |
Key people | Vinay Singhal (Co-founder and CEO) Shashank Vaishnav (Co-founder & CTO) Parveen Singhal (Co-founder & COO) |
Revenue | $6 Million (2016) |
Employees | 120+ |
Slogan(s) | Beyond Stories |
Website | |
Alexarank | 224 (June 2017) |
Registration | Optional |
Current status | Active |
History
WittyFeed was founded by Vinay Singhal, Parveen Singhal and Shashank Vaishnav in October 2014.
It runs under the parent company Vatsana Technologies.
It has received the Fastest Growing Company in IT Sector award by All India Achiever's Foundation in 2015.
WittyFeed was selected by Google among an elite group of startups for case studies on successful companies using their products.
Partnership
In September 2016, Wittyfeed was partnered with Sohail Khan production's film Freaky Ali, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amy Jackson and Arbaaz Khan. It was partnered with an online emotional wellness platform YourDost to be the digital partner of the #StopSuicide campaign for World Suicide Prevention Day in September 2016.
In association with Government of India's initiative Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj used WittyFeed as a platform to create awareness on cleanliness in August, 2017.
Funding
In September, 2017, WittyFeed raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a pre-series A funding from investors like Anand Chandrasekaran (Director, Facebook), Apurva Chamaria (VP of HCL Technologies) and Ritesh Malik (Co-founder of Innov8), along with a group of other investors.
Awards
2017: Digipub Awards Best Innovation in Publishing, (Viral9), Gold Winner
2017: Digipub Awards for Best Brand Partnership (Baahubali 2), Silver Winner
2017: Achiever of the year by BusinessWorld
2015: The Fastest Growing Company in IT Sector award by All India Achiever's Foundation