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Crowdynews

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Crowdynews
Crowdynews logo
Type of site
Privately held company
Founded2010
HeadquartersFriesestraatweg 213-B
Groningen
Netherlands
Founder(s)Edwin Kuipers
Jeroen Zanen
IndustryInternet
Employees45 (April 2015)
Websitecrowdynews.com

Crowdynews is a technology company headquartered in Groningen, Netherlands. The company offers a social media curation platform that gathers and filters relevant social media content and posts them in real-time next to topical, popular stories. Crowdynews pulls from social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and more and posts relevant content next to news articles. The product is able to search and filter in 25 languages, active in thirty countries, and growing.

History[edit]

The company was founded in 2010 by Edwin Kuipers and Jeroen Zanen after they watched US Airlines flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River in 2009.[1][2][3]

The co-founders realized that most of the breaking news sources was coming from social media and citizen journalists on the ground in New York, rather than traditional news outlets like CNN. They decided there had to be a way to incorporate the crowd perspective into the news cycle more seamlessly.

Using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies, Kuipers created the Crowdynews platform to automatically gather and filter relevant social media posts related to any given topic. Zanen was the first investor in the company and joined Kuipers to add business development expertise to the executive team.

In January 2015, the company raised €2,5 million in Series A funding from INKEF Capital and Singapore Press Holding's SPH Media Fund.[4][5]

References[edit]

  1. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crowdynews Crunchbase profile
  2. https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/chicago-tribune-launches-site-to-crowdsource-what-s-hot-in-the-city/s2/a553905/ New site from Chicago Tribune crowdsources 'what's hot' in the city
  3. https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-crowdynews-is-giving-digital-first-more-social-content/s2/a553448/ Digital First Media gathers social content with Crowdynews
  4. "Social Media Curation For Media Firms Crowdynews Raises €2.5M Series A". Techcrunch.
  5. "Crowdynews receives €2.5m to 'socialise' news reading". Journalism.co.uk.

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