SeenReport successfully closes Series-A Round investment by Al-Janabi Group
by Yaser Awan Sep 01, 09, 07:45 PM
SeenReport Private Ltd has closed Series A round of funding from Al-Janabi Group, a leading media investor in Middle East. SeenReport is the largest citizen news portal in Pakistan and provides both users and media organization expertise in combining traditional and new media by leveraging its rich social media suite.
SeenReport CEO, Sharjeel Ahmed, says, “We are really excited to acquire investment from Al-Janabi Group. As a prominent media venture capital firm, they bring a lot of experience and guidance to the table. Combined with the passion and expertise of SeenReport’s team in fusing traditional and new media, we will certainly achieve higher grounds.”
When talking about the way forward for the company, Sharjeel said, “SeenReport is making a strong impact on the way news is created, shaped, distributed and perceived by the people. Traditional media has already started to embrace SeenReport’s platform. We feel that the funding is well-timed and will enable us to grow our company. We will use this funding to expand the company, strengthen the platform and explore the international market.”
Since its launch on 10 June 2008, SeenReport has made huge strides and now offers a full blown news sourcing and publishing platform. The platform is specifically geared towards gathering news via cell phones, micro-blogging and live casting. The platform supports rich multimedia content and taps into the prominent and emerging social networks and blogs in order to create a comprehensive social media suite.
SeenReport has made its mark with news sourcing platform and unique business model to provide its off-the-shelf social media suite to news organizations and media companies. Already engaging thousands of people and establishing a client base, the social media suite is capable of powering any international news organization’s citizen journalism arm.
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SeenReport CEO, Sharjeel Ahmed, says, “We are really excited to acquire investment from Al-Janabi Group. As a prominent media venture capital firm, they bring a lot of experience and guidance to the table. Combined with the passion and expertise of SeenReport’s team in fusing traditional and new media, we will certainly achieve higher grounds.”
When talking about the way forward for the company, Sharjeel said, “SeenReport is making a strong impact on the way news is created, shaped, distributed and perceived by the people. Traditional media has already started to embrace SeenReport’s platform. We feel that the funding is well-timed and will enable us to grow our company. We will use this funding to expand the company, strengthen the platform and explore the international market.”
Since its launch on 10 June 2008, SeenReport has made huge strides and now offers a full blown news sourcing and publishing platform. The platform is specifically geared towards gathering news via cell phones, micro-blogging and live casting. The platform supports rich multimedia content and taps into the prominent and emerging social networks and blogs in order to create a comprehensive social media suite.
SeenReport has made its mark with news sourcing platform and unique business model to provide its off-the-shelf social media suite to news organizations and media companies. Already engaging thousands of people and establishing a client base, the social media suite is capable of powering any international news organization’s citizen journalism arm.
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Name: YaserLocation: Lahore, Pakistan Since: July 2008 Posts: 139
I am an IT professional, an Entrepreneur and a citizen Journalist. In my spare time I read poetry and write about Customer Relationship Management, Marketing, Advertisement and Technology at Bhonpoo.com
Congratssss guyz, wat a wonderful achievement , Bravooooooo
@Everyone: Thanks
@Asad : sure we will, Can you hit the feedback button and tell us which ones aren't working fine?
Masha Allah; great success.
Btw, some of your pages dont' appear perfect on IE 8; can you fix that in next release?
mashAllah! zabardast :)
Congrats people!!!
It is a great achievement.
Mubarakaan.com.pk!
I must admit that the first time when Sharjeel came to me with this idea while I was working with Adil Saleem at Mantaq (Pvt.) Ltd, I said, "NO. It's a very weak business case. I would not leave my job for this.", and when Adil joined ...him, I felt sorry for Adil. But later, when Yaser joined the show, I started smelling success in the idea. Today, its a different ball game altogether. kudos to all 3+1.
wow!!! that is some achievement.
BTW this article is very well written too.