RocaNews Acquires River and Raises $4.4M Seed to Build Social Newstech Platform
January 19, 2022
RocaNews closed a $4.4 million seed round led by Ori Allon and acquired news-aggregation app River to accelerate development of a social, AI- and Web3-enabled news platform. The deal gives RocaNews River’s proprietary aggregation and recommendation technology and enables hires of writers and developers to expand Roca’s content and product offerings.
- Buyers
- RocaNews
- Targets
- River
- Industry
- Media & Entertainment
- Location
- United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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