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Indian TikTok clone Josh gets $100 million in fund raise; Google and Microsoft invest The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Incs Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country. December 22, 2020 5:53:08 pm The app, Josh, is one of several home-grown short-video platforms that have sprung up since India blocked the wildly popular TikTok in June (image s...

Google Helps Birth Two Social Media Unicorns in Rapid Succession Bloomberg 12/22/2020 Saritha Rai © Bloomberg A man wearing a protective mask looks at a smartphone while leaning against a mural at Khan Market in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. India continues to suffer from the worlds second-worst coronavirus outbreak with the number of confirmed cases standing at 9.93 million as the morning of Dec. 17, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University ...

(Representative image) BENGALURU: The Indian parent of a TikTok copycat has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Incs Google and Microsoft , months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country. The app, Josh, is one of several home-grown short-video platforms that have sprung up since the government blocked the wildly popular TikTok in June amidst a border crisis with China, attracting global investor interest in applications filling the gap. Be...

Indian TikTok clone gets Google and Microsoft backing in $100m fund raise By Reuters Share Bengaluru - The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Incs Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country. The app, Josh, is one of several home-grown short-video platforms that have sprung up since India blocked the wildly popular TikTok in June amidst a border crisis with China, attracting...

VerSe Innovation that owns Josh, said it is valued at more than $1 billion (Representational) Highlights India blocked wildly popular TikTok in June amid border crisis with China Josh installed on 50 million devices, as per data from Google Play Store Bengaluru: The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Incs Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country. The app, Josh, is one of...

Google invests in Indian start-ups Glance, VerSe Innovation Tuesday 22 December 2020 | 13:43 CET | News Google has announced two new investments, one in Glance, an Indian start-up part of SoftBank-backed InMobi Group, and another in VerSe Innovation, the company behind Indian start-up Dailyhunt and short video app Josh. Google invested USD 145 million along with existing investor Mithril Capital in Glance, owner of the video-sharing social media platform Roposo. The VerSe Innovati...

Google helps birth 2 social media unicorns in India in rapid succession Photo: Bloomberg . Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 05:27 PM IST Bloomberg Google and its American internet peers are steadily amping up their investment in India, latching onto the only other country with a billion-plus population after getting shut out of China Share Via Read Full Story Google investments helped create India’s two youngest technology unicorns: a pair of startups that feed personalized news and entertainment to t...

Google Helps Create 2 New Social Media Unicorns In India Google Helps Create 2 New Social Media Unicorns In India Glance, which feeds news and sports scores to phone-lock screens, is said to have reached a valuation of more than $1 billion after completing a funding round led by Google. Google and its American internet peers are steadily amping up their investment in India Google investments helped create Indias two youngest technology unicorns: a pair of startups that feed personalized ne...

At $1bn valuation, VerSe Innovation is Indias latest unicorn ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Tue, Dec 22 2020 9:57 IST | ​ 0 Views At $1bn valuation, VerSe Innovation is India’s latest unicorn. Image Source: IANS News Bengaluru, Dec 22 : VerSe Innovation which is the parent company of vernacular content platform Dailyhunt and owns short video app Josh on Tuesday announced it has completed the funding round of more than $100 million from Google, Microsoft and AlphaWave (a unit of Falcon...