Solutions Ecosystems Reports Resources Data Pricing Login Book a demo
Power Law company profile

SmartNews

Consumer Services · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2012 Unicorn

AI-powered platform for personalized news aggregation

Valuation
$1–2.5B
Latest valuation · 2026
Unlock exact value
Headcount
500–1k
Current team size
Unlock exact value
Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026

Investors

18 investors on SmartNews's cap table

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

Series A 5 investors entered at this stage
Japan Post Capital
Asian Capital Alliance
Globis Capital Partners
D.A.Consortium
Dentsu
Series B+ 13 investors entered at this stage
SMBC Venture Capital
JIC Venture Growth Investments
GREE
Atomico
Development Bank of Japan
Woodline Partners
Social Venture Partners
MIXI
Japan Co-Invest Limited Partnership
Yamauchi-No.10 Family Office
Strive
Green Co-Invest Investment
Princeville Capital

Ownership

Who owns SmartNews

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

12.5% Atomico

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where SmartNews has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
13 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan70.2%
🇺🇸 United States18.2%
🇨🇳 China6.2%
🇸🇬 Singapore2.5%
🇹🇼 Taiwan1%
Top 5 of 13 shown
Web traffic by country
2.1M monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan69.1%
🇺🇸 United States24%
🇨🇦 Canada2.8%
🇮🇩 Indonesia0.7%
🇦🇺 Australia0.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of SmartNews's talent

Dealroom maps SmartNews's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

7 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
12 AI specialistsincl. 2 core researchers
500 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
AI Talentlive Score hidden — book a demo
Engineering Score hidden — book a demo
Product Score hidden — book a demo
Go-to-market Score hidden — book a demo
Leadership Score hidden — book a demo
Research Score hidden — book a demo
Book a demo to unlock SmartNews's exact scores

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$879k patent portfolio · 6 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$879k
0.04% of valuation · 199.7× smaller than top peer Douyu ($176M)
6 active patent families
Where SmartNews innovates Human–computer interactionInformation processingImage pairComputer graphics (images)Image capture

Where SmartNews concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across SmartNews and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about SmartNews

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SmartNews 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

See SmartNews on the full Dealroom platform

Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.

Book a demo Explore company profiles