TOTAL	$12M
FUNDING TOTAL	$12M
Seed, 2005 Rose Tech Ventures
Angel, 5/06 Brightspark Ventures	$1.4M
Series A, 7/07 Brightspark Ventures Rho Capital Partners GrowthWorks Capital	$10.6M

Competitors
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GroundReport, CJReport, Digital Journal, Digital Journal

Tags
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news, usergeneratednews, nowpublic

NowPublic
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NowPublic is a crowdsourcing news network empowering the ordinary citizen.

In 2009 the site was nominated for an Emmy. As a participatory news network, NowPublic lets citizens from all over the world write and contribute to news stories by sending in text, photos and/or videos. The site employs the notion of “crowdsourcing,” as it is essentially a Wikipedia-like news service.

Founded just over two years ago in a garage, NowPublic has since grown to include over 170,000 contributors in 140 countries worldwide. Major news corporations including CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and Gannet have all begun to include citizen-collected news content, and most recently the Associated Press partnered with NowPublic.com to incorporate their citizen content in stories and breaking news events.

Recent Milestones
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NowPublic was acquired by Examiner.com. (9/1/09)

Posted 9/2/09 at 7:25am via sfexaminer.com
NowPublic acquired Truemors. (7/10/08)

Posted 7/10/08 at 5:56am via techcrunch.com
NowPublic received $10.6M in Series A funding. (7/1/07)

Posted 7/30/07 at 8:38pm
NowPublic received $1.4M in Angel funding. (5/1/06)

Posted 7/27/07 at 1:39am
NowPublic received () in Seed funding. (1/1/05)

Posted 10/28/08 at 9:43pm
NowPublic added Michael Tippett as Founder. (1/1/02)

Posted 5/8/13 at 1:14pm
NowPublic added Michael Tippett as Board.

Posted 7/27/07 at 1:27am
NowPublic added Michael Meyer as Board.

Posted 7/27/07 at 1:28am
NowPublic added Guy Kawasaki as Board of Advisors.

Posted 7/10/08 at 5:55am
NowPublic added Leonard Brody as Board.

Posted 7/27/07 at 1:24am