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WittyFeed

WittyFeed

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.

WittyFeed
Type of businessPrivate held company
Media] andEntertainment
Available inEnglish],Hindi,Spanish
FoundedOctober 2014
Headquarters,
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerVatsana Technologies (2014-present)
Key peopleVinay Singhal (Co-founder and CEO) Shashank Vaishnav (Co-founder & CTO) Parveen Singhal (Co-founder & COO)
Revenue$6 Million (2016)
Employees120+
Slogan(s)Beyond Stories
Website
Alexarank224 (June 2017)
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

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.

In February 2017, Wittyfeed becomes 20th most visited website in India surpassing social networking sites Twitter and Instagram.

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

See also

References

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