Inshorts’s video content arm Public makes it to the big league

This week saw a rather striking venture capital investment that needs to be talked about. On Wednesday, a social network for hyperlocal video content called Public raised $41 million in funding. The round was led by A91 Partners and some of the existing investors in Public. That’s the news part of the deal.

But it is also where things get interesting. Public comes from the house of Delhi-based online news aggregator Inshorts, which has been quietly bulking up for about seven years now. This is the second investment in Inshorts in about six months; in September, the company had raised …

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Harveen Ahluwalia

Harveen is a co-founder at The Morning Context, and leads our Internet coverage, overseeing a team of reporters writing on startups and tech. She has previously worked as a media, consumer and tech reporter at The Ken and Mint. At The Morning Context, she writes on startups, venture capital, consumer and media businesses—from e-commerce to healthtech to streaming.

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