Type of site Privately held company Website crowdynews.com Number of employees 45 (April 2015) | Industry Internet Founded 2010 Parent organization Elkoog B.V. | |
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Headquarters Friesestraatweg 213-B
Groningen
Netherlands Founder(s) Edwin Kuipers
Jeroen Zanen | ||
Met 50 werknemers en maandelijks 600 miljoen pageviews timmert crowdynews goed aan de weg
Crowdynews is a technology company headquartered in Groningen, Netherlands. The company offers a social media curation platform that gathers and filters relevant social media content and posts them in real-time next to topical, popular stories. Crowdynews pulls from social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and more and posts relevant content next to news articles. The product is able to search and filter in 25 languages, active in thirty countries, and growing.
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History
The company was founded in 2010 by Edwin Kuipers and Jeroen Zanen after they watched US Airlines flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River in 2009.
The co-founders realized that most of the breaking news sources was coming from social media and citizen journalists on the ground in New York, rather than traditional news outlets like CNN. They decided there had to be a way to incorporate the crowd perspective into the news cycle more seamlessly.
Using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies, Kuipers created the Crowdynews platform to automatically gather and filter relevant social media posts related to any given topic. Zanen was the first investor in the company and joined Kuipers to add business development expertise to the executive team.
In January 2015, the company raised €2,5 million in Series A funding from INKEF Capital and Singapore Press Holding's SPH Media Fund.