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NewsWhip
Marketing · Dublin, Ireland · Founded 2011
From Hindsight to Foresight: Quantify and forecast the impact of news and social media with NewsWhip. MoreLess
NewsWhip is a predictive media insights platform that helps comms and insights professionals to proactively monitor and defend their brand’s reputation.
We track web coverage and all the major social networks in real-time, helping you quantify cross-platform coverage and forecast the impact it will have on your brand. We work with comms and insights teams at the frontline of reputation management and give them the context they need to make the best decisions when managing live events, monitoring the news ecosystem, or keeping stakeholders informed across the business.
NewsWhip's unique ability to quantify and forecast the impact of any news story or social post is why we're trusted by global brands such as Google, Tinder, Deloitte, Nissan, Walmart and more.
Company overview
NewsWhip company information
The essential company record, classifications and operating signals in one place.
- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Dublin, Ireland
- Employees
- 51
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 61.2
Valuation & funding
NewsWhip funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACQUISITION✓Exit | Jul 2025 | $55M | — | Sprout Social | ↗ |
| EARLY VC✓Equity / VC | Feb 2023 | $13M | $52M | AshGrove Capital | ↗ |
| DEBT✓Debt | Dec 2021 | $2.4M | — | Element SaaS Finance · Element Finance | ↗ |
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Feb 2017 | $6.4M | $26M | AIB Seed Capital Fund · Matter Ventures · The Associated Press · The Asahi Shimbun Company | ↗ |
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Oct 2016 | — | — | Undisclosed | — |
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | May 2015 | 500 Global · Tribal.vc · Armando Biondi · AIB Seed Capital Fund | — | ||
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Sep 2013 | Hal Philipp · AIB Seed Capital Fund · Shane Naughton · Enterprise Ireland | — | ||
| ANGEL✓Equity / VC | Jul 2012 | Shane Naughton · Hal Philipp | — | ||
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Sep 2011 | NDRC | — |
Financials
Revenue, earnings and profit over time
Reported history and available estimates. Estimated years are marked “E”; sparse fields are left blank rather than inferred.
Growth signals
NewsWhip website traffic
Latest recorded traffic for NewsWhip is 80K monthly website visits, up 17.6% over the last three months. NewsWhip's team declined 28.2% over the past year.
Comparisons
NewsWhip compared with similar companies
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Talent graph
NewsWhip's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Investors
25 investors on NewsWhip's cap table
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Global footprint
Where NewsWhip has talent and traffic
team presence
In the news
Latest news about NewsWhip
Recent press, funding announcements, and product moves mentioning NewsWhip — open to read from the original sources.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about NewsWhip
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about NewsWhip 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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