VerSe Innovation a parent company of DailyHunt’s has received over $100 million in investment from Google, Microsoft, AlphaWave and a Falcon Edge Capital unit.This makes the “India’s tech company a unicorn for local languages” as the company itself proclaims. DailyHunt’s launched a short video platform “Josh” to take on after TikTok’s ban in India.
The vision with which Josh was created fits right into Google’s investment strategy for India and the aim of the company is to make Indian content creators ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and empower them through this initiative.