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, said:
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.
What is See n Report?
See n Report is a service which empowers common people to report pictures of events they witness as they happens. Using this amazing service you can just mms your photos to their email id or upload it from your computer. Using this service is quite easy, just make a free account and report events which you think are important. In short span this service has proved to be an innovatory and promising service. Just visit SeenReport and do try this service. Now you can express to a larger community just like that.
There goes aljanabi’s money down the drain. No wonder the arabs are baywaqafoof. It has proven time and time.
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