{"id":857202,"date":"2024-09-19T08:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T03:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=857202"},"modified":"2024-09-19T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T03:28:38","slug":"short-news-app-way2news-raises-14-million-from-westbridge-capital-investor-sashi-reddi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/19\/short-news-app-way2news-raises-14-million-from-westbridge-capital-investor-sashi-reddi\/","title":{"rendered":"Short news app Way2News raises $14 million from WestBridge Capital, investor Sashi Reddi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperlocal news startup Way2News on Tuesday announced its Series B funding round of $14 million led by WestBridge Capital with participation from prominent VC investor Sashi Reddi, both existing investors in the company. Providing short-format news, Way2News said it would deploy the latest capital infusion, which comes two years after its Series A round, towards increasing its presence in South India. The startup primarily competes with InShorts and Dailyhunt in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperlocal news startup Way2News on Tuesday announced its Series B funding round of $14 million led by WestBridge Capital with participation from prominent VC investor Sashi Reddi, both existing investors in the company. Providing short-format news, Way2News said it would deploy the latest capital infusion, which comes two years after its Series A round, towards increasing its presence in South India. The startup primarily competes with InShorts and Dailyhunt in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}