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With 60% of the world’s population owning a mobile device, it is now quicker and easier than ever before to interact and share content online. With technology comparable to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Blottr.com recognises your location and localises the top stories for where you are. Blottr.com provides a service that ensures news can be shared and developed instantaneously by its users. Combining technology, news and user-generated journalism, Blottr.com provides its users with the chance to capture and report news as events unfold, whether at a local or national level. Blottr.com enables users to create their very own news agenda as well as developing that of others.
Overview
Location
United Kingdom, England, London
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$612K
Founded date
2010
Investors 1
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Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 7
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| Feb 21, 2013 | With A Revenue Model In Sight, Crowdsourced News Service Blottr Raises $612K For Its Content Syndication Platform NewsPoint | Blottr, the crowd-sourced (or citizen journalism) news service, has raised an additional £400,000 (~$612k) to help scale NewsPoint, its syndication platform that lets publishers/broadcasters purchase user-submitted content to help power the... |
| Sep 21, 2012 | The New York PD wants to help find your iPhone | reader comments 57 with 37 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Apple's "Find my iPhone" and "Find my iPad" features are extremely handy around the house—I'm not asham... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | 20 Startups Demo And Launch At London Web Summit | Today at the London Web Summit a number of startups are launching on stage so here’s a quick run-down of their businesses and our quick take on them. Out of these 20, three will demo on stage for a prize worth close to £100,000 in a £50,000... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Spotify ecosystem grows as ShareMyPlaylists secures Angel funding | Any new US Spotify users will be busy creating playlists and sharing them with their friends. This is an awesome part of the service which is really the central point of why Spotify can become so addictive compared to other services like Mo... |
| May 5, 2011 | Citizen Journalism is alive and well in the UK – Blottr scores Angel investment | It seems that Citizen Journalism is alive and well in the UK with news that Blottr, the London-based “user generated news” startup, has closed a “seven-figure” Angel round of funding. Notably, the investment comes from Mark Pearson, founder... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Can Citizen Journalism work in the UK? Blottr thinks it has the formula | Arguably, in the age of Facebook and, to a greater degree, Twitter, the early excitement around so-called Citizen Journalism has been surpassed by social media. But that isn’t stopping London-based Blottr, founded by Adam Baker, which think... |
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FAQ about Blottr.com
When was Blottr.com founded?
Blottr.com was founded in 2010.
How much funding has Blottr.com raised?
Blottr.com has raised $612K in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Blottr.com?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Blottr.com, among them “With A Revenue Model In Sight, Crowdsourced News Service Blottr Raises $612K For Its Content Syndication Platform NewsPoint” (Feb 21, 2013) and “The New York PD wants to help find your iPhone” (Sep 21, 2012).
Is Blottr.com still active?
Blottr.com is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 17, 2021.