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Best Internet First Media Companies in Hyderabad, India

The 73 best Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad, India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Way2News.

73companies tracked
$45.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
10have raised

Ranked: Best Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Way2News
Provider of short-form news across multiple categories and various languages
$31M21 mo agoSeries BRaju Vanapala
Founder & CEO
2014TypeScriptNode.jsBootstrap+25—
2IncNut Digital
Online platform offering content related to beauty and wellness
$11M35 mo agoAcquiredSangram Simha
Founder & CMO
2011BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Font API+7—
3PublicVibe
Developer of an app-based platform offering multi-category news
$2M89 mo agoAcquiredUmang Bedi
CEO
2015——
4Praja App
Operator of a social network for local news and politics
$1M51 mo agoSeries ABalaram Attili
Co-Founder & COO
2019Node.jsBootstrapReact+157 job openings
5E-Reasoning
Online news portal focused on gambling
$873K50 mo agoSeedNitin Padmawar
Co-Founder & CTO
2019——
6Way2
Multilingual summarized news provider
$186K169 mo agoUnfundedSasendra Vanapala
Founder
2011——
7Fashionlady
Online blog providing Indian fashion trends, beauty, and health tips
$100K168 mo agoSeedAshok Reddy
Co-Founder
2012WordPressMySQLPHP+21—
8Dribl
Web-based news portal focused on football
$87K96 mo agoDeadpooledNageen Kommu
Co-Founder
2017——

Top 11 Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad

#1
Series B · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2014 · 358 employees
$30.8Mraised
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Provider of short-form news across multiple categories and various languages. It delivers real-time news through personalized feeds based on reading preferences. Features include news sharing, digital magazines, category-based news, and night mode. Users can participate in polls and bookmark articles.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2024Series B$14M
  • Jun 2022Series A$16.8M
  • Feb 2022Angel$21.5K
Founders & team
Raju VanapalaFounder & CEO
Investors
WestBridge Capital, Konark Trust, MMPL Trust, SRI Capital
Tech stack
AngularBootstrapBootstrap IconsCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#2
Acquired · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2011 · 120 employees
$10.5Mraised
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Online platform offering content related to beauty and wellness. It also offers many other contents in columns such as style craze, mom junction, bridal box, skin craft, vedix, and much more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 40k LinkedIn followers — 21.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Venture Debt—
  • Jan 2022Series A$6.4M
  • Mar 2020Series A$4M
  • Sep 2013Seed$73.7K
Founders & team
Sangram SimhaFounder & CMOChaitanya ChakravarthyCo-Founder & Co-CEOAiza AhmedCo-CEO
Investors
Ventureast, MomJunction, RPSG Capital Ventures, RPSG Ventures, RevX Capital, Istyle
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerBootstrapGoogle Font Api
#3
Seed · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2019 · 1 employees
$872.5Kraised
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E-Reasoning is an online news portal focused on gambling. It offers news and information related to gambling news, deposit & withdrawal limits info, gambler education, events, online casinos, and more. Users can search for content through keywords. Monetizes through display advertisements.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Angel$372.8K
  • Mar 2021Angel$185.2K
  • Oct 2020Angel$104.8K
  • Aug 2019Angel$209.7K
Founders & team
Nitin PadmawarCo-Founder & CTOAneesh BodduCEO
Investors
Frontline Strategy, CCube Angels, Prestellar Ventures
#4
Series A · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2019 · 21 employees
$1.1Mraised
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Operator of a social network for local news and politics. This mobile application facilitates the sharing of regional content and updates regarding public figures. Users access digital groups to follow activities and discussions related to civic events and political organizations. The software provides a interface for individuals to engage with information relevant to their immediate surroundings.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 2.1% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 9 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +9 · hiring: Policy Ad Strategist, Content Operation Executive
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Series A$1.1M
Founders & team
Balaram AttiliCo-Founder & COOBalaram AthilliCo-FounderMani DondaCo-Founder & CPO
Investors
Better Capital, Angel List, Breadlake Ventures, QED Innovation Labs
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesBootstrapCore-JsEmotionFirebase
#5
Acquired · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2015 · 37 employees
$2.1Mraised
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Developer of an app-based platform offering multi-category news. It provides news under various categories including sports, politics, business, entertainment, technology, health, and others. It supports multiple languages like Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Bangla, Gujarati, and English. It also monetizes through display advertisements.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Seed$1.9M
  • Nov 2018Angel$41.9K
  • Apr 2018Seed$49.8K
  • Aug 2016Angel$106.6K
Founders & team
Umang BediCEO
Investors
Advancesoft, Hyderabad Angels, Anthill Ventures, Indian Angel Network Fund, Haystack, Clarion Technologies
#6
Unfunded · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2011 · 290 employees
$186.4Kraised
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Way2 (Rebranded from Way2SMS) is a mobile app through which users can view summarized & short news in up to 400 characters. Publishes news in 8 languages. The app also has an SMS module through which users can send free SMSes to any mobile number across all operators. Claims that the news module has crossed 500 million views per month in Aug 2016. As of March 2017, the app has 10M+ downloads.

Founders & team
Sasendra VanapalaFounderKrishna Mohan Raju ValivarthiFounder
Investors
ValueFirst
#7
Deadpooled · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2017 · 1 employees
$86.6Kraised
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Dribl is a web-based news portal focused on football. It offers news articles related to football players, tournaments, clubs, teams, statistics, world cup news, photos, and information about football games. It also enables football fans to support their favorite teams and engage with each other.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2018Angel$86.6K
Founders & team
Nageen KommuCo-FounderAgam KhuranaCo-Founder
#8
Seed · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2012
$100Kraised
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Online blog providing Indian fashion trends, beauty, and health tips. It offers articles and insights on various aspects of fashion, including apparel, accessories, and hairstyles. The blog also covers beauty topics such as skincare, makeup, and nail care. Additionally, it provides health-related content, including food and nutrition, home remedies, and weight loss advice.

Funding rounds
  • 2012Seed$100K
Founders & team
Ashok ReddyCo-Founder
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare Rocket LoaderContact Form 7Core-JsElementor
#9
Deadpooled · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2016
$37.4Kraised
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Wardrobe organizer app

Founders & team
Varun KumarFounder
Investors
Axilor Accelerator
#10
Seed · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2014 · 17 employees
—raised
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App-based platform aggregating multi-category regional news. Features bit-sized news & videos on multiple topics such as politics, sports, business, technology, international affair, entertainment, and more. The platform enables users to personalize the content on the basis of language and country. Its app is available for Android devices.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2018Seed—
  • Seed—
Founders & team
Srini KoppoluCo-Founder & CEOVasudeva VarmaCo-Founder & CSO
Investors
MOX, Anthill Studio
#11
Seed · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2011 · 2 employees
—raised
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StyleCraze is an online site that provides information on beauty and wellness for Indian women. Members get access to articles, blog posts and reviews on beauty products and advice written by experts and beauty bloggers. The company provides latest trend updates, makeup and beauty advice, eye makeup or lip makeup tutorials, nail art tutorials, and hairstyle tutorials; advice on common issues, such as acne, dandruff, hair fall; and tips and tricks on makeup, skin care, hair care, hairstyles, health, and fitness. The company also operates momjunction.com, along with a fast growing Youtube channel. Claims to have over 12 million monthly visitors. Has an Android app. The parent company, IncNut Digital was reportedly raising Rs 25 Cr ($4M) in its first round of funding as of May 2015.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2013Seed—
Founders & team
Sangram SimhaCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
RPSG Capital Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon AdvertisingAmazon Web ServicesFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries

Funding & investor landscape

$45.8Mtotal disclosed funding
9companies funded
17disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
RPSG Capital Ventures3 rounds
Astir Ventures2 rounds
MOX2 rounds
Advancesoft1 rounds
Anagha Solutions1 rounds
Angel List1 rounds
Anikarth Ventures1 rounds
Anthill Studio1 rounds
Anthill Ventures1 rounds
Axilor Accelerator1 rounds

Notable founders

Raju Vanapala
Founder & CEO · Way2News
Sangram Simha
Founder & CMO · IncNut Digital
Chaitanya Chakravarthy
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · IncNut Digital
Nitin Padmawar
Co-Founder & CTO · E-Reasoning
Aneesh Boddu
CEO · E-Reasoning
Balaram Attili
Co-Founder & COO · Praja App
Balaram Athilli
Co-Founder · Praja App
Umang Bedi
CEO · PublicVibe
Sasendra Vanapala
Founder · Way2
Krishna Mohan Raju Valivarthi
Founder · Way2
Nageen Kommu
Co-Founder · Dribl
Agam Khurana
Co-Founder · Dribl
Prism market signals · India · country-scoped Prism corpus, 6,509,550 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Internet First Media coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Internet First Media companies are there in Hyderabad, India?
Radar tracks 73 indexable Internet First Media companies headquartered in Hyderabad, India, India, that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad, India?
The Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad, India on this list have raised a combined $45.8M in disclosed equity funding across 9 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Internet First Media company in Hyderabad, India?
Way2News is the highest-funded Internet First Media company in Hyderabad, India, with $30.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad, India are funded?
9 of the 73 Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad, India on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Internet First Media unicorns are there in Hyderabad, India?
None of the Internet First Media companies in Hyderabad, India on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Hyderabad, India Internet First Media companies?
The most active investors in Hyderabad, India Internet First Media companies on this list include RPSG Capital Ventures, Astir Ventures, MOX, Advancesoft, Anagha Solutions.
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