Glance is an Indian

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based software company that delivers personalised content to the lock screens of

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s. Co-founded in 2019 by Naveen Tewari, Abhay Singhal, Mohit Saxena, and Piyush Shah and headquartered in

Bangalore Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...

, Glance is owned by

InMobi InMobi is an Indian multinational mobile advertising technology company, based in Bengaluru. Its mobile-first platform allows brands, developers and publishers to engage consumers through contextual mobile advertising. The company was found ...

, a multinational technology company.

History

Glance owns and operates a screen zero platform that uses artificial intelligence technology to deliver personalised, relevant, ad-free, and live content across different categories such as games, stories, and news on the lockscreen of the users’ devices. It is the world's first. In September 2019, Glance raised $45 million funding from the United States-based venture capital firm, Mithril Capital. In December 2020, Glance raised $145 million from Google and Mithril Capital, increasing its valuation to over $1 billion. It is the second company from the InMobi group to have become a

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. In June 2022, Glance launched a three-day digital event calle
Glance LIVE Fest
with

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actor

Rajkummar Rao Rajkummar Rao (born Raj Kumar Yadav; 31 August 1984) is an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi films. He has appeared in more than 30 films since 2010, and is the recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award, three ...

starring in their marketing campaign to promote it. The live and interactive digital event was accessible to anyone with Glance's lockscreen enabled on their smartphone. Glance LIVE Fest included live shows o
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Technology

The Glance software comes pre-installed on various android smartphone devices, such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme etc. Whenever a user unlocks the phone, the smartphone screen refreshes to load new visual and interactive content. Apart from English, the content is available in six Indian languages - Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada - and Bahasa (Indonesia). Users spend around 25 minutes consuming content on Glance every day across 19 content categories including sports, news, entertainment, fashion, gaming, travel, and wildlife. As of March 2022, Glance has 150 million active users, and currently partners with Oppo, Vivo,

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Xiaomi Corporation (; ), commonly known as Xiaomi and registered as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, and household items. Behind Samsung, it is the second largest m ...

Realme Realme (stylized as realme) is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It was founded by Li Bingzhong (known as Sky Li) on May 4, 2018, who was former vice president of Oppo. Started originally as a sub-brand o ...

and in talks with many other OEMs.

Acquisitions

Glance acquired

Roposo Roposo is an Indian video-sharing social media service, owned by Glance, a subsidiary of InMobi. Roposo provides a space where users can share posts related to different topics like food, comedy, music, poetry, fashion and travel. It is a pl ...

, a short-video platform, in November 2019, for an undisclosed amount to add vernacular video content to its platform. In June 2021, it acquired Shop101, a social e-commerce platform, for an undisclosed amount to integrate celebrity and influencer-led commerce on Glance and Roposo.In March 2022, it acquired Gambit, an Indian gaming company, for an undisclosed amount to accelerate Glance’s ambition of building the biggest platform for NFT-based live gaming experiences for Gen-Z, across markets.

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