Curio

Professionally narrated articles

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Content
  • Digital Media
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
Clerkenwell, London, UK

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Company mission

To design an experience where people would get smarter, feel happier, and become more empathetic to the world around them - with none of the effort.

Our take

There are two markets for professionally narrated articles: the consumer and the publisher. Curio offers a subscription-based audio service that includes top articles and quality writing from more than 40 publications including The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Economist, all of which are professionally narrated for people to listen to on the go.

Curio’s machine learning algorithm curates the best content from across all their publishers, allowing them to overcome limitations of podcasts, radio and audiobooks and cost-effectively offer a variety of consistently high quality audio at scale. Through its highly accessible iOS and Android apps, it fit seamlessly around people's busy lifestyles.

Curio is also passionate about helping its publisher partners find new ways to monetise and engage their audiences. Through this it is helping to create an optimal experience for the publishers and for customers.

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Benefits

  • Up to 3% employer pension contribution
  • MacBook Pro, with budget for tech accessories
  • Flexible working hours & location
  • “No-Meeting Wednesdays” (Work from Home Wednesdays in a non-Covid world)
  • Learning & development support, like qualifications and mentorship programs
  • Team outings, lunches, and surprises
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2020

$8.9m

SERIES A

May 2018

$2m

SEED

Total funding: $12.9m

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Leadership

Govind Balakrishnan

(Co-Founder)

Previously a consultant at Accenture and then a strategy manager at the BBC

Srikant Chakravarti

(Co-Founder)

A former associate at Sidley Austin having studied law at the National Law School of India and Queen Mary University of London