It has been an exciting month for one of our portfolio companies, Thoora. The news discovery service launched its private beta last month at TechCrunch50 in Silicon Valley, and then unveiled the public beta last week at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas.
The reception from the media, bloggers and users are been enthusiastic as people recognize that Thoora is a new and unique service that helps people discover the news attracting the most attention within social media (the entire blogosphere and Twitter) and nearly 5,000 traditional media sources.
Today, Thoora received a great review from Thrillist, a popular Web site that puts the spotlight on the new products and services. Here’s an excerpt:
“From a posse of Canadian developers, Thoora’s a news aggregating service highlighting the most buzzed-about stories as covered by non-mainstream sources around the web in real time, via a complex algorithm that constantly filters, calculates, and ranks the subjects and content of blog posts, Twitter updates, and comments to determine what’s actually attracting attention.”
