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YouthKiAwaaz raises Rs 4 crore from Quintillion Media

Online news and views platform YouthKiAwaaz has raised Rs 4 crore (~$600k) in a round of seed funding from Raghav Bahl led Quintillion Media. The platform will use the funding for expanding its team and business and investing in technology. Founded by Anshul Tewari, YouthKiAwaaz claims to completely crowdsource its content. To contribute content, users only need to sign in using Facebook, Google+ or Twitter after clicking on the submit link. Users are then prompted to enter their names, email ids, topic of contribution, the article to be posted and attachments if any. The platform mentions that all submissions are (obviously) subject to editorial review. As of now, users can write anything from analysis to opinions on politics, art and culture and personal stories, to issue centric writings. Interestingly, earlier in March, media entrepreneur Raghav Bahl’s Quintillion Media’s mobile-focused digital venture The Quint went live. In January, The Quint had started publishing stories on Facebook as a preview to the new service. The website publishes news and analysis across various categories like politics, technology, entertainment, business and sports. Developments in the publishing industry: - Last month, media company YourStory raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a series A round of funding led by Kalaari Capital and with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, T V Mohandas Pai and Ratan Tata. The company said it would use the funds to launch a tech portal that would publish original stories in various Indian languages starting with Telugu, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Tamil. -…

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