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Glance

Bengaluru-based Glance is a screen zero platform that helps users enjoy personalised content in their favourite language on their lock screen.
The parent company of Glance is InMobi, which was India’s first unicorn. The Bengaluru-based screen zero platform helps users enjoy personalised content in their favourite language on their lock screen. Glance is available in multiple languages like English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu and also in Indonesian language Bahasa. This gives the startup access to a wider captive audience. It aims to democratise content and commerce on the internet.
  • Entertainment
  • Media
  • Technology
  • Marketplace
    HEADQUARTERS
    Bangalore, Karnataka, , India
    COMPANY SIZE
    1000+
    FOUNDED
    2019

    Awards

    Awards and Recognitions
    09
    A YourStory list of startups in 2019 with groundbreaking ideas that are creating a deep impact.
    In a mobile-first economy like India, smartphones have seen rapid adoption, and startups are innovating for the handset. Here is a startup that has built a captive customer base at the entry point of any mobile handset: the screen. Bengaluru-based Glance provides content on the screen of a mobile handset that is snappy, consumable, and in sync with the needs of both the millennial and Generation Z. The aim of InMobi’s mobile-first platform Glance is simple: provide visually rich content that informs and entertains users – be it an entertainment factoid, a sporting event result, a news snippet, or a fashion recommendation. And all this, one lock-screen at a time. Today, Glance has over 50 million daily active users under its belt who spend an average of 22 minutes. Glance is not an app, but comes as a service that is pre-installed on mobile phones manufactured by Samsung, Xiaomi, Gionee, and Vivo. As the entry point of Glance is through the mobile handset manufacturers, it gives them an edge in reaching out to the content consuming public. Affirmation for Glance came in the form of investment from Mithril Capital, whose Co-founder Peter Theil is a legend in his own right in the Silicon Valley. This is just the beginning for Glance as mobiles as the platform for content consumption is going to remain for a long time and this will only enable this startup to come out with newer innovations.

    Funding

    Funding Rounds and Investors
    SERIES-D
    $200M
    Investors
    Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
    14th Feb 2022
    OTHER
    $145M
    Investors
    Mithril Capital Management, Google
    22nd Dec 2020