Google, Thiel Funding Helps Harvard Alum Score a Second Unicorn
- Google, Mithril invest $145 million in AI-driven mobile app
- Glance is second unicorn from the group that created InMobi
Naveen Tewari
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Glance, a mobile content platform from the founder of India’s earliest unicorn, has reached a valuation of over $1 billion after completing a funding round that was led by Google, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The Alphabet Inc. unit and billionaire Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital invested $145 million in the 18-month-old startup, whose app uses artificial intelligence to curate a personalized feed of entertainment, news, sports scores and video game content and push it to phone lock screens, according to a statement. Mithril had earlier invested $45 million into Glance, taking the total funds raised by the startup to $190 million.