NewsBreak Valuation, Funding & Investors

New York-based mobli is a visual media sharing platform organized into channels for people, places, and topics. Launched in 2012 with backing from Leonardo DiCaprio, it enabled real-time photo and video discovery via algorithmic feeds, attracting partnerships with Time Inc. and reaching 15 million users before pivoting.

OneFootball is a Berlin-headquartered digital media platform delivering live scores, news, videos, and statistics for over 100 soccer leagues worldwide. Founded in 2014, the app covers competitions from Premier League and Bundesliga to MLS and Copa Libertadores, partnering with organizations like Major League Soccer and UEFA clubs. Features include match calendars, player stats, and highlight clips, attracting millions of monthly users across iOS, Android, and web. OneFootball expanded into podcasting and fantasy leagues.

Kuaikan Manhua is a Shanghai-based online comics platform founded in 2014 targeting young readers with original digital artwork. It hosts thousands of titles in romance, action, and slice-of-life genres via app and website at www.kuaikanmanhua.com. Backed by Tencent, it dominates China's comic market and fosters creator communities.

RIDI is a South Korean digital content platform often described as the country's Kindle, built around e-book retailer Ridibooks alongside Manta Comics, a subscription webtoon service, and Laftel, an animation streaming service. Founded in 2008, the Seoul-based company spans web novels, webtoons, video, and original soundtracks, competing with Naver and Kakao in Korea's webtoon and web novel markets. It has also pursued licensing deals to supply intellectual property to streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney Plus.

Pocket FM is an India-based audio entertainment platform, founded in 2018, offering short- and long-form audio series and podcasts in regional languages including Bengali, Tamil, and Hindi. The platform hosts more than 100,000 hours of content and 400,000 episodes across genres such as romance, self-help, and motivation, monetizing through microtransactions and subscriptions on a freemium, pay-as-you-go model. Pocket FM has expanded from India into the United States and other international markets, reaching over 200 million users and processing tens of millions of paid transactions.

Glance is a Bangalore-headquartered lock screen content platform delivering personalized news, videos, and shopping via AI on smartphones from Samsung and Xiaomi. Pre-installed on devices in India and Southeast Asia, it aggregates content in Hindi, Tamil, and other languages. Part of InMobi Group, Glance operates Roposo short-video service for entertainment and live commerce.

Patreon is a San Francisco-headquartered membership platform empowering over two million creators with recurring fan support. Launched in 2013, it hosts podcasts, videos, art, and music, allowing patrons to fund exclusive content through monthly pledges. The service processes billions in payouts annually, serving artists in gaming, writing, and visual media worldwide.

Red Ventures is a Charlotte-headquartered digital holding company founded in 2000 that owns and operates media brands including Bankrate, Healthline, The Points Guy, CNET, Lifewire, and Payscale. It delivers personalized content and marketing services across finance, health, travel, education, home services, and entertainment sectors. The company maintains offices in 10 US cities plus locations in London and Sao Paulo, powering consumer decision-making through data-driven platforms and partnerships with lenders and service providers. Red Ventures expanded its portfolio by acquiring CNET in 2020 and continues to integrate AI for enhanced user experiences.

Yidian Zixun is a China-based personalized news aggregation app founded in 2011 by former Baidu vice president Ren Xuyang. The platform uses recommendation algorithms to deliver customized content to users, competing with ByteDance's Toutiao in China's news app market. Phoenix New Media became Yidian's largest shareholder through a series of investments, and the app grew to tens of millions of daily active users.

Nook Media is a Barnes & Noble subsidiary focused on e-readers and digital content delivery. Formed in 2012, it produces Nook devices running Android with six-inch E Ink displays for reading, Wi-Fi connectivity, MicroSD slots for storage expansion, and optional user-replaceable batteries. Larger seven-inch and nine-inch color touchscreen variants serve as primary input interfaces. The lineup competes directly with Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Google Nexus 7, Kobo, and Sony Reader models. New York-headquartered, Nook Media received equity investments from Microsoft and Pearson to fuel its growth in the e-book market.

RUM Group Inc focused is to maximize the power of human imagination through an independent technology ecosystem built on privacy, resilience, and an open alternative to Big Tech. Rumble gives human creativity a voice, a video and media platform built for creators and audiences who value free expression. Quake AI is a cloud and AI-infrastructure business, delivering the compute, data-center capacity, and blockchain infrastructure for the agentic era.

Kakao Corp is a technology and platform company engaged in digital services, content, mobility, and financial technology businesses. The company operates through seven reportable segments. The Kakao segment provides advertising and platform-based service offerings. The Kakao Games segment covers game development, publishing, and related services. The Kakao Entertainment segment focuses on entertainment planning and content production, and distribution. Kakao Mobility offers database-based information provision services, while Kakao Pay provides mobile platform-based financial services. Kakao Piccoma operates a platform for webtoon and web-novel supply, and the SM Entertainment segment engages in entertainment planning and content production.

News Corporation is a diversified media and information services conglomerate with significant presence in the US, the UK, and Australia. Key mastheads include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph. Its 61%-owned REA Group is the dominant property listings platform in Australia. In addition, it owns Harper Collins, one of the largest book publishers in the world, and has a sizable US digital property advertising business, Move. The 65% interest in Foxtel, the Australian pay-TV and streaming provider, was sold in April 2025. The sale to global sports streaming platform, DAZN, was struck at more than 7 times Foxtel's EBITDA.

Substack is a San Francisco-headquartered platform empowering writers to publish subscription newsletters, podcasts, and videos. It handles payments, email delivery, and analytics, allowing creators to retain 90 percent of revenue while building direct audience relationships. Popular among journalists from The Free Press and economists like Noah Smith, Substack supports over 3 million paid subscriptions across politics, tech, and culture topics.

Tango Me is a Mountain View-based live streaming app enabling broadcasters to monetize video content through virtual gifts and subscriptions. Users engage in one-to-one chats or group broadcasts, with features supporting 100 million monthly active users across iOS and Android in 200 countries.

LeVP is a Beijing-headquartered internet technology subsidiary of LeEco, integrating content, devices, and services across smartphones, smart TVs, electric vehicles, and sports streaming. The platform delivers an ecosystem connecting Leshi Video, LeTV hardware, and LeCloud storage for users in China and select international markets. Formed in 2015, it supports LeEco's cycle of shared hardware-software experiences.

Atmosphere is an Austin-based streaming TV service for bars, restaurants, and gyms, delivering 21 ad-supported channels with sports, lifestyle, and entertainment content. Spun out from Chive Media Group in 2019, it includes digital signage overlays for venue promotions and viewer interaction via QR codes. The platform reaches thousands of U.S. locations through proprietary data analytics.

Saregama India Ltd is a holding company, which engages in the production and distribution of music, television programs, and movies. It operates through the following segments: Music, Films/TV Serials, and Publication. The Music segment deals with the business of manufacturing and sale of Music storage devices viz. Carvaan, Music Card, etc, and dealing with related music rights. The Films/TV Serials and Event segment engaged in the production and sale/telecast/broadcast of films/TV Serials, pre-recorded programs, organizing live musical events, and dealing in film rights. The Publication segment publishes the weekly current affairs magazine ‘OPEN’ through its publication business. The firm derives a majority of its revenue from the Music segment.