Vizo is a New York City–based mobile news application led by CEO Gillis Baxter. The app delivers curated summaries of trending news stories to users through visual headlines several times per day. Vizo raised $750K in funding to support its product launch. Backers were not disclosed in the report. The company intends to use the funds to launch the Vizo application on mobile devices. The article does not specify financing instruments, prior rounds, or operating metrics. Vizo is a mobile news app that condenses reporting into 500–600 character blurbs delivered three times a day (twice on weekends). Founder Gillis Baxter dropped out of Georgetown in December 2014 to build the product with CTO Evan Bloomberg. The company uses contracted writers who gather material from major outlets such as The New York Times and Al Jazeera and winnow it down for smartphone readers. Vizo positions itself as a "Tinder for current events" and includes social features that let users take pictures and post short writeups shareable to Facebook or the wider Vizo community. The app is launching in the U.S. and Israel on Android and iOS and plans to be based out of New York. Financially, Vizo has raised over $1 million from a combination of family, friends and three Israeli investors.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2015