SUJO / Odeon Media Inc.

SUJO provides curated news and opinion with comfortable social interaction.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location Chicago, IL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded September 2016
  • Employees 1
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website sujohome.com

Company Summary

SUJO is a fun way to pierce filter bubbles and understand news better. The app provides fact-checked news, curated influencer opinion, and user-contributed content all summarized to save users time. It's a social news app built for the post truth, influencer-driven era and lets people join comfortable, anonymous interaction around headlines. Revenue is based on direct and programmatic branded content advertising as well as ad-free subscriptions.

Team

  • Daniel is a 16-year veteran of digital media marketing, ad operations, and sales management. He was a Director at CBS Local Digital Media for 7 years managing local market revenue for New York and Chicago. He directly managed teams as large as 25 and was responsible for the digital media revenue and training of 125. He was also responsible for ad operations, monetization of CBS assets, implementation of integrated campaigns, and forecasting.

  • Vlad is the CEO of Spark Equation which provides tech consulting and custom application development to enterprise clients including Echo Logistics and ShiftGig. Spark are experts using Azure cloud tech so SUJO is built to scale. They build an efficient architecture allowing for a high load of content to process quickly with smooth interface updating. Vlad is an expert in continuous integration making SUJO able to respond rapidly to the market.

  • Journalism and Community Manager

    Mason Johnson is a journalist and fiction writer from Chicago. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in creative writing, he worked at CBS for six years. When Mason isn't writing freelance work in his home office, he's entertaining crowds with comedic stories in the backs of Chicago bookstores and bars. Though Mason mostly curates political news on SUJO, he occasionally dips a toe into the murky depths of nerd culture.

  • Content Curator and Communications

    Clare Mackert is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, receiving a Bachelor of the Art's in Multimedia Journalism. While at Columbia she became skilled in multimedia journalism working on projects that showed her talents of interviewing, video editing, and photography. Clare has extensive experience writing a wide variety of content, creating social media strategies, and pitching campaigns. Clare curates political influencer opinion on SUJO.

  • Zack Newmark
    Content Curator

    Zack Newmark is the founder and editor of the NL Times, and English-language general news site in the Netherlands and a mentor at the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship. Zack focuses on technology, startups, business, and content that covers the environment of disinformation. He has been working with SUJO for 6 months but has known founder Daniel Rendon for 20 years.

  • Chris Emma
    Content Curator

    Chris Emma is a sports writer for 670 The Score (Formerly CBS / cbschicago.com) covering The Bears and Chicago teams as well as NCAA. Chris was also a former publisher / reported for Fox Sports and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. He focuses on curating sports content for SUJO.

  • Content Curator

    Sadie is a Chicago-based journalist, freelancer, and graduate of Columbia College school of Multimedia Journalism. Sadie was an editor for Echo Magazine and created content for Designer Share and Modern Luxury. Sadie curates science, fashion, and TV/Film content for SUJO.

  • Content Curator

    Alec is a project manager for Entercom / 670 TheScore (formerly CBS / cbschicago.com) and had previously worked for Rise Interactive and News America Marketing. He curates sports influencer opinion content for SUJO.

Advisors

  • Neil Salvage
    Unconfirmed
    Richard Rigley
    Unconfirmed
  • Andy Abbott
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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