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Pocket FM bags $22.4 million Series B funding led by Lightspeed

Pocket FM provides more than 100,000 hours of long-format audio content across audiobooks, shows, stories, novels, and podcasts in English and seven Indian languages.

December 06, 2021 / 14:38 IST
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(Left to right) Pocket FM founders Nishanth KS, Prateek Dixit and Rohan Nayak.

Audio streaming startup Pocket FM has raised $22.4 million in Series B funding round led by Lightspeed and participation from new investor Tanglin Venture Partners and existing investors including Times Group.

With this, the Gurugram-based startup has raised a total of $28.6 million across three rounds of fundings to date.

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The company plans to use the funds raised to scale up its operations, strengthen its community of audio content creators, invest in technology to provide better recommendations and expand its presence across geographies.

Founded in 2018 by Rohan Nayak, Nishanth Srinivas, and Prateek Dixit, Pocket FM provides more than 100,000 hours of long-format audio content across audiobooks, shows, stories, novels, and podcasts in English and seven Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, and Marathi.