iVnews

1st VIDEO news aggregator app that auto-creates personalized newscasts made from a user's preferred TV news & commentary stories. ML, patentable, $14B/yr market

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2020
  • Employees 9
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website iVnews.com

Company Summary

VIDEO news aggregator that auto-creates personal newscasts on-demand. Uses patentable AI/ML to continuously capture & categorize TV news stories to create & stream private newscasts with a user's preferred stories. Fast, low cost, 24/7.

Revenue: ad & sub fees. ~85% margin in a huge & growing $14B/yr market.

Operating alpha Android, Apple & Web test apps.

Ready to launch globally with NYC & SF, USA TV inputs within 4 weeks of funding.

Team

  • John Craig
    CTO & Co-founder

    An engineer with extensive international business and management expertise, including a stint at McKinsey as an expert, and a tech leader. He also participated in the founding and management of the world's first OTT service, iCraveTV. He is a dual US and Canadian citizen.

    John is particularly passionate about increasing the reach & impact of video news and reducing partisanship driven by news silos like Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.

  • William Craig
    CEO & Co-founder

    Launched video start-ups: the first OTT, Sat. News Channel, Regional Sports TV Networks, digital OTA wireless cable, & digital CRTC TV networks. Created the world's first OTT, iCraveTV. "Before there was Youtube, Hulu, & Netflix streaming ..., there was iCraveTV ... streaming television years before it became commonplace." - M. Guest, Prof. of Law, University of Ottawa, 2014, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICrave - TV Managed TV news stations.

Advisors

  • Jiayue (Jenny) He
    Unconfirmed

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