本地新闻应用程序news Break募集1.15亿美元

热门新闻应用程序news Break宣布，它已经筹集了1.15亿美元的新资金。

新闻稿称，这一轮的新闻稿使“2021年第一批新独角兽之一”，但这家初创公司拒绝透露其实际估值。

创始人兼首席执行官杰夫•郑（Jeff Zheng）表示，他在2015年创办该公司时，目标是通过关注本地新闻，使自己与其他新闻聚合应用程序脱颖而出，并“帮助或授权这些本地内容创作者”

要说清楚的是，你可以在News Break中找到与其他新闻应用程序类似的故事（例如，冠状病毒新闻有一整节，今天早上你会看到很多关于昨天美国国会大厦被暴力接管的头条新闻），但是你也会看到很多根据你的位置特别突出的故事。

原文：The popular news app News Break is announcing that it has raised $115 million in new funding.

The press release claims this round makes News Break  “one of the first new unicorns of 2021,” but the startup declined to disclose its actual valuation.

Founder and CEO Jeff Zheng  said that when he started the company in 2015, the goal was to differentiate itself from other news aggregation apps by focusing on local news, and to “help or empower these local content creators.”

To be clear, you can find similar stories in News Break that you’d see in other news apps (there’s a whole section for coronavirus news, for example, and this morning you’ll see plenty of headlines about yesterday’s violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol), but you’ll also see plenty of stories that are highlighted specifically based on your location.