Summly

🗓 Founded 2011💰 Last funded Sep 2012
Book and Periodical Publishing🌐 summly.com
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Simple, intuitive and elegant. Summly redefines news for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. Innovative gestures, animations and great summaries make reading the news fun: easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise. Nick D’Aloisio launched Summly in December 2011 as a tech summarization prototype that garnered significant interest worldwide. With backing from Horizons Ventures, and help from many NLP and AI experts around the world, Nick and the Summly team have been able to further develop summarization technology, the first result being the new Summly mobile news app. Summly has developed a technology with SRI and the top NLP scientists in the world that automatically summarizes natural language into coherent paragraphs. Summly's investors include Li Ka-Shing, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Fry, Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher, Brian Chesky, Mark Pincus, Josh Kushner Joanna Shields, Vivi Nevo and a host of others. Summly launched in November 2012 and received Apple's Award for Best Apps of 2012 for Intuitive Touch, as well as being featured in over 50 countries as App of the Week. Over 90 million summaries have been read by Summly's users.
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Investor activity2011–2012 · investors recorded per year
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Frequently asked questions
Who invested in Summly?
Summly has 3 investors on record on gritt.io, including 3 early-stage backers.
When did Summly last raise funding?
The most recent investment in Summly recorded on gritt.io was in September 2012.
When was Summly founded?
Summly was founded in 2011.
What industry is Summly in?
Summly operates in Book and Periodical Publishing. Find similar Book and Periodical Publishing investors on gritt.io.