We are funded!

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Dear readers,

We are almost never the first to break news. But we are often the first to make sense of breaking news. So it is when we are the news.

TechCrunch reported on Monday that some of the most high-profile investors in the country, including unicorn founders, have invested in Frontpage Media Technologies, The Signal’s parent company.

“India, and eventually the world, needs an outlet that goes beyond newsflashes and gets deep into nuanced reportage through a mix of curation, original writing, and new formats of sense-making,” TechCrunch quoted one of our investors, Miten Sampat of CRED, as saying.

So, who’s in?

Institutional

LetsVenture (lead)

Good Capital

Rainmatter Fintech Fund

Capital A

Individual

Radhakrishnan Ramachandran, Digital media entrepreneur

Samir Pitalwala, Head, Gaming, APAC, Google Cloud

Mukund Kulasekaran, CBO - Urban Company

Rajneesh Kumar, SVP and Chief Corporate Officer, Flipkart Group

Aneesh Sivakumar, Director, KKR

Abhay Jaipuria, Partner

Parry Ravindranathan, CEO & Co-founder, Converj

Sunish Kumar, Founder & CEO, Vansun Mediatech (91wheels, UTM, Giznext)

Kavita Rajwade, Co-founder, IVM Podcasts

Himangi Tiwari and Joji Thomas Phillip, Founder and editor in chief, Deal Street Asia

Amit Doshi, Co-founder, IVM Podcasts

Nilay Arora, Country Head & VP, Tencent

Tanay Tayal, Co-founder and CEO, MoonFrog Labs

Rohit Raj, Co-founder, The Glitch and Chtrbox

Ajay Candade, Ex-KKR private equity, and Managing Partner, New Fund (Yet to be announced)

Anusha Mahalingam, Co-founder, LessonLeap

Deepinder Goyal, Co-founder and CEO, Zomato

Gaurav Munjal, Co-founder and CEO, Unacademy

Miten Sampat (CRED) and Aakrit Vaish (Haptik), Meta Studio Advisors

Ashishkumar Bairagra, Partner, ML Bhuwania and Co LLP

Ashwini Ashokan, Co-founder, Blox, Vue and MadStreetDen

Umang Kumar, Co-founder, CarDekho

Paresh Shah, Managing Director, Excel Debt Broking Pvt Ltd

Niraj Dalal, Partner, 3A Capital Advisors

Mohan Goel, Managing Director, Sheel Group of Companies

Jayram Iyer, CTO, ManpowerGroup India Pvt Ltd

Aditya Goel, Early Stage Investor

These investors are backing us for our storytelling ability and to build what we call the media company of the future. Our products will be edgy and relevant to the global citizen. We thank the investors for their support.

Editor, The Signal.