The News Funnel is a Morristown, N.J.-based platform that builds customized news feeds for business professionals and company websites. Its first vertical is the real estate industry and the service aggregates articles, press releases, blogs, videos, event announcements and market research reports from thousands of media sources as well as content from companies and associations. Launched 18 months prior to the article, the free customized news service has been used by thousands of real estate professionals and nearly 1,000 prominent companies. The product is present in 31 geographic markets. The company currently employs 10 full-time employees. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics. The News Funnel is a New York City–based website that lets business readers create a customized news funnel based on their preferences. The free site aggregates nearly 500 business- and real estate-focused media sources and hosts press releases, market research, blogs, industry events and other content supplied directly by corporations via its Company News Channel service. Users set preferences from a comprehensive list of criteria to create a customized, real-time news stream and can update settings quickly to change their news views. The service launched in Beta earlier this year for the real estate industry after nearly two years in development and has been rolled out in the New York Metropolitan area. The company plans to expand nationally and into other business-to-business verticals. The News Funnel has closed a $1M first round of funding from a small group of private investors.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jan 2014