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Odyssey

1002 Broad Ripple Ave, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46220, United States

Overview

Odyssey is a social platform that discovers and shares millennials' voices by crowdsourcing content from a network of creators. The platform enables creators to choose topics across news, politics, fashion, relationships, sports, tech and more, and relies on organic sharing to reach relevant audiences. Led by CEO Evan Burns, Odyssey counts 10,000+ content creators, 900+ communities and over 30+ million monthly uniques. The company is based in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Indianapolis. Odyssey intends to use the new funding to continue to scale operations. To date the company has raised $32M in total funding. The Odyssey is a digital content platform targeting millennials, led by founder and CEO Evan Burns. It crowdsources ideas and content through millennial influencers and is built on MUSE, a proprietary CMS that measures article quality and social engagement to surface content to relevant audiences. Launched in June 2014 and based in NYC, the site was increasing to nearly 10 million unique monthly visitors. The company raised $3M in funding to support its growth. The proceeds will be used to extend its platform from 80 to more than 400 markets.

Total raised
$28M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Apr 2016

Industries

  • Journalism
  • News
  • Publishing
  • Social Media
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Apr 2016

    $25M

  2. Seed

    May 2015

    $3M

Team

No current team members are available.