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NewsCred

Marketing · New York City, United States · Founded 2008

Leading enterprise content marketing MoreLess

NewsCred, a content marketing platform, was founded in 2007 by Shafqat Islam, Iraj Islam, and Asif Rahman. The company, which later rebranded as Welcome, was acquired by Optimizely in 2021.

The founders, with their roots in Bangladesh, embarked on a journey to create a global company. Their background in technology and business helped them to build a platform that catered to the needs of marketers.

NewsCred's business model revolved around providing a comprehensive content marketing platform for enterprises. This platform enabled businesses to manage their content lifecycle, from creation and collaboration to distribution and analytics. The company served a wide range of clients, including major brands and media companies, helping them to scale their content marketing efforts. The platform's key features included a content marketplace, workflow management tools, and performance analytics.

Keywords: content marketing, content lifecycle management, content distribution, content analytics, enterprise software, marketing technology, digital marketing, content strategy, brand and media, workflow management

Talent graph

NewsCred's talent

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Team profiled 87 named & role-tagged
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 3 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

9 investors on NewsCred's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Dentsu
Escalate Capital Partners

Global footprint

Where NewsCred has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
4 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States40%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh30%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom20%
🇸🇪 Sweden10%
4 countries shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about NewsCred

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about NewsCred on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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