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nēdl (as in the haystack)

nēdl lets you discover and start live radio broadcasts that are searchable by keywords.

Santa Monica, CA, USA

One Liner

One Liner
nēdl lets you discover and start live radio broadcasts that are searchable by keywords.

What Problem We are Solving

Problem
In the U.S. alone, over 218M people who listen to Radio every single day go from station-to-station (a.k.a. 'frustration to frustration') to find the live news, sports, talk, information, and music they want to hear.  There is a massive amount of audio content that is hidden behind the walls of archaic metadata.

About Us

About Us
nēdl is a live audio discovery and creation app disrupting the $44.1B global radio advertising space.  nēdl allows radio listeners to search live broadcast radio as easily as they search the web, by keyword.  Users can also create their own live broadcasts that are searchable while they broadcast by the words they say.  nēdl indexes over 120,000 live radio stations from around the world so that our nēdlers can find the live streams that play what they want and then discover what comes next.  It's what comes next that sets nēdl apart -- the ability to use what you know (the keyword) to discover what you didn't know (local, human curate playlists from around the globe) you didn't know (the radio station or nēdlcaster that you would have never discovered otherwise).

Venture Highlights

Highlights
nēdl has just been named 2019 Webby Honoree for Apps/ Mobile/ Voice Technical Achievement and recently became a Google Cloud Technology Partner!  We're backed by Sweet Capital (King Founders of Candy Crush), Matter.vc, Backstage Capital, The Knight Foundation, The National Association of Broadcasters, MemBrain LLC, and Quake Capital.  We've earned media in Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine for becoming one of Pepperdine's Most Fundable Companies.  In the last two years, we've acquired licenses for more than 120,000 live radio streams from around the world for unlimited songs, content from CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Sports, ESPN, BBC, the Associated Press and much more.  

Business Model

Business Model
Radio stations and nēdlcasters pay us to make them searchable while they are live on air.  We're a B2B2C focused on subscriptions, advertising and data -- in that order.

Competitive Advantage

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Our team created the iheartradio app & scaled Headspace and Pandora. 

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Go-To Market Strategy

Business Strategy
Inquire within.  Broadly: channel partners, radio partners (on air promotion) and nēdlcasters (promoting their own streams via social media and WOM). 

Networking

Networking
We are open to meeting up to grab a coffee, or just to chat. We would really enjoy your feedback and insight into our venture and would be happy to discuss anything that you are currently working on to see if we can be of service!

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TAM SAM SOM

TAM
$44.1B
SAM
$5B
SOM
$45M

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Seed

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Entertainment
Media
Politics & Government
Social Media
Technology
Music
Sports
Internet
Other

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Last Updated: 04/11/19

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