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| Jun 2, 2023 | Jana SFB parent raising money to repay nearly $200 mn to GIC, TPG | Premium
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Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd’s (SFB) holding companies Jana Holdings Ltd and Jana Capital Ltd are raising fresh capital from large investors including a sovereign fund and a private equity firm to repay almost $200 mil... |
| Jan 12, 2018 | Fritz lands $2M to help bring neural networks to mobile | Mobile developers can use Fritz to process live video, images, etc. on the edge
Face detection, object identification, voice recognition. These are technologies using neural networks (algorithmic constructs that allow software to learn) tha... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Onshape Is Almost a Unicorn: This Year's Highest Startup Valuations in Mass. So Far | Onshape, the Cambridge cloud CAD startup led by former SolidWorks CEO John McEleney, is just $200 million shy from gaining the coveted (or not coveted?) "unicorn " status — that is, private companies that have a $1 billion valuati... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | After Beating Facebook in India, Jana Raises $57M | When India’s telecom regulator banned Facebook’s Free Basics service last week, it was a sign of validation for Jana, the Boston tech company that also provides free Internet access to those in emerging markets struggling to afford it—albei... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 18, 2016 | Aria Systems raised $50M; Verizon led $57M in Jana; Vera closed $17M Series B funding
Vyopta, provider of video collaboration analytics, closed its very first round of venture capital, netting the company a $5 million Series A led by AVX Pa... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana Announces $57 Million in Series C Funding Led By Verizon Ventures to Bring Free, Unrestricted Internet Access to Billions of People Worldwide | Investors Verizon Ventures, Spark Capital, and Publicis Groupe Will Help Scale Jana’s Mission
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 18, 2016–
Jana, the largest provider of free, unrestricted Internet access in emerging markets, today announced a ... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana Nabs $57 Million And AOL's Tim Armstrong To Bring Free Internet To China | Jana founder Nathan Eagle at his headquarters in Boston in 2015. (Credit: Shawn G. Henry for Forbes) |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana Raises $57 Million To Bring Unrestricted Internet Access To The World | Nathan Eagle was a Fulbright scholar from MIT, teaching at the University of Nairobi, when he had his “aha moment.”
Specifically, Eagle was teaching a mobile phone programming curriculum at the school when he and his students built an SMS s... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana Grabs $57M to Bring Mobile Internet to India and Rest of World | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Increasingly, U.S. tech companies aren’t battling for users on their home turf—they’re competing in the developing world.
The latest reminder of that is Jana, a Boston-based s... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana closes a $57M round led by Verizon to bring sponsored Internet access to China | Mobile advertising-powered Internet provider Jana announced that it has raised $57 million in funding that will enable it to connect more people in emerging markets. The company’s Series C round was led by Verizon Ventures and included part... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana Raises $57M in Series C Funding | Jana, a Boston, MA-based provider of free, unrestricted Internet access in emerging markets, raised $57m in Series C funding.
The round was led by new investor Verizon Ventures with participation from existing investors Spark Capital and Pu... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | New Money: Jana Lands $57M Round Led By Verizon, Constant Therapy Gets $1.9M, BetterLesson Raises $6M | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates.
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Amount: $57 million Series C
Investors: Verizon Venture... |
| Jan 26, 2016 | 5 Strategic Business Lessons from BlackBerry Messenger | Share this article:
Once upon a time, BBM was the king of instant messaging. With the global push of WhatsApp and WeChat, the market size of BBM has reduced considerably leaving Nigeria and South Africa as the biggest market for the app. In... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Announcing the 2015 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight we unveiled the 2015 50 on Fire winners during our annual 50 on Fire celebration. These 50 winners represent a group of diverse individuals and organizations who are driving the innovation economy in Boston and beyond.
To select the... |
| Jul 8, 2015 | Analysis: Nadella threatens to consign Microsoft to a future of desktop obscurity | reader comments 346 with 179 posters participating
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The prevailing wisdom is that Windows Phone is an unmitigated disaster that has failed... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | How Will the Internet Affect the Lives of its Next Billion Users? | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Innovative US-based digital media company Quartz recently hosted an event at One Marylebone in London designed to explore what lies in store as the next billion internet users... |
| Jun 1, 2015 | How To Make The Internet Free In Developing Countries | Nathan Eagle Contributor
Nathan Eagle is the CEO and co-founder of Jana
When most Americans hear the term “net neutrality,” their eyes begin to glaze over, confusion sets in, and an almost instant boredom takes over. But in an emerging mark... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | UC Web Partners With Facebook For In-Browser Mobile Notifications | UCWeb, which makes the world’s largest third-party mobile browser by pageviews, has partnered with Facebook in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Russia and other markets so users there can get the social network’s notifications directly in UCBrows... |
| Jan 9, 2015 | Boston Tech Roundup: Kanojia, NetProspex, Jana, Erecruit, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A new year means a bunch of new deals to catch up on around the Boston-area innovation sector, including secretive new companies from notable executives, an acquisition, and f... |
| Jan 2, 2015 | Developing-World Mobile Marketer Jana Raises $12.5M | Earlier this week I posted on 10 local startups I'll be keeping an especially close eye on as we strut into 2015.
Already, one of them, Boston's Jana, has given me something new to report on—$12.5 million in new equity funding.
Though there... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Africa Offers Great Potential For E-Commerce Growth | Africa offers enormous potential for e-commerce growth given that online shopping is in its infancy in the region, notes Sumesh Rahavendra, head of marketing for DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa (SSA).
“Although global e-retailer Amazon celeb... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Emerging markets say 'bigger is better' when it comes to smartphones | A new report from market research firm Jana has revealed that emerging markets prefer smartphones with a larger screen -- that is, "phablets".
Out of 1,386 smartphone users, over 50 percent of users expected their next phone to ha... |
| May 28, 2014 | Spark Capital Raising Growth Fund, Targeting $375M | Local venture firm Spark Capital is planning to raise a growth fund worth $375 million.
The Back Bay VC, most recently touted for its key investments in now-public Twitter and Oculus VR, filed its plans with the Securities & Exchange Co... |
| Apr 21, 2014 | Facebook reportedly set to debut mobile ad network | Facebook has been wanting to do this for years, began showing ads in third party apps in January
It feels like the potential Facebook mobile ad network has been a very, very long time coming. The company has been experimenting with the idea... |
| Mar 19, 2014 | Facebook wants your data for free, but Jana will pay 3.48 billion people for theirs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook depends on its 1.31 billion users to contribute their data and attention for free, but mobile rewards company Jana plans to pa... |
| Mar 19, 2014 | Facebook wants your data for free, but Jana will pay 3.48 billion people for theirs | Facebook depends on its 1.31 billion users to contribute their data and attention for free, but mobile rewards company Jana plans to pay 3.48 billion mobile users in emerging markets for theirs, with free airtime or services.
Organizations ... |
| Mar 1, 2014 | As India User Base Nears 100M, Facebook Hopes To Earn Big Revenue From SMBs | India is set to become Facebook’s biggest market in terms of number of users later this year, but don’t expect that to translate into ad dollars for the Palo Alto company anytime soon. India’s online advertising market maxes out at around $... |
| Feb 19, 2014 | Why Facebook Dropped $19B On WhatsApp: Reach Into Europe, Emerging Markets | With 450 million monthly users and a million more signing up each day, WhatsApp was just too far ahead in the international mobile messaging race for Facebook to catch up, as you can see in the chart above that we made last year. Facebook e... |
| Jan 29, 2014 | Mobile now over 50% of Facebook ad revenue, crosses $1B | Zuckerberg says 2014 will be the year to deliver new mobile experiences, more standalone apps
It's been around a year and a half since Mark Zuckerberg made his declaration of the company being mobile first.
In today's Q4 and full year earni... |
| Jan 26, 2014 | PricePanda Raises $3M From German Retail Group Tengelmann | PricePanda, the Rocket Internet-backed price comparison site, has raised $3 million in new funding from the German retail major Tengelmann Group. This new funding will be used to expand PricePanda in other South Asian markets, the company s... |
| Dec 19, 2013 | This is what people in 9 emerging markets think about Bitcoin (survey) | Bitcoin took us on a wild ride this year — it saw highs and lows, attracting both heady optimism and angry tirades from skeptics.
Most of the action happened in established tech markets in the U.S., Europe, China, and Japan, but the greates... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | China Mobile gets 4G license and signs deal with Apple | After months of rumors, China Mobile is now officially selling the iPhone to its 759M subscribers
It’s official: Apple and China Mobile are besties now. China Mobile, China’s largest mobile carrier and one of the last major global carriers ... |
| Jan 25, 2013 | Indian Music App Dhingana Has Been Downloaded 3.5M Times, Launches On The Mobile Web | Dhingana, which offers a free service for streaming Bollywood and other Indian music, said today that its mobile apps have been downloaded 3.5 million times. And the company is hoping to reach an even broader audience with the launch of its... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | 5 Things to Watch at Mobile Madness: Mobile Mafia, Facebook’s Future, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Mobile Madness is here at last. Xconomy’s fourth annual mobile conference is set for today at 1 pm, at Microsoft NERD in Kendall Square, Cambridge. The event is sold out with ... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas on Dec. 1: Here’s the Agenda | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is life’s big question: what should you spend your time on?
If you’re starting a company, you probably want to do something fun that lets you be your own boss and maybe, ... |
| Xiaomi Launches First Mi Home Store In Bengaluru, 100 More To Come | Chinese electronics company Xiaomi Inc, scoring on its online go-to-market strategy in India has crossed yet another milestone. The owner of the widely-sold Mi series of smartphones has opened its first Mi Home Store in Bengaluru.
The store... |
