Niume

The team at Niume are living the entrepreneurial dream. Barely two years after start up, founders Daniel Gennaoui, Francesco Facca and Alex Hughes have six employees and are installed in offices in London's Silicon Roundabout. They have secured a supportive and respected angel investor, and are already veterans of two successful investment rounds. From an idea that first saw the light of day in 2014, Francesco, Daniel and CTO Alex have created a collaborative blogging platform that the co-founders conceived of as the opposite of Facebook and Twitter. Unique in organising its content creators and readers into shared 'spheres' based on mutual interest and featuring topics ranging from art, entrepreneurship and food, through sci-fi, politics and yoga, Niume is able to deliver its community of writers, artists and photographers immediate access to a larger audience of engaged, enthusiastic and knowledgeable readers than they can find anywhere else on the Internet. "We have already reached the point where the product is very good." says Daniel. He points to user numbers that catapulted from 400,000 a month in May 2015 to hit the two million mark by August 2016, and the recent addition of popular new features including monetisation options and mobile…

Blogging platform Niume, supported by Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Accelerate Cambridge, hits fundraising target through crowdsourcing venture launched by Cambridge Judge MBAs. Two students at Cambridge Judge who co-founded the collaborative blogging platform Niume reached their initial funding target of £100,000 in just six days, and have now raised £170,000 through a crowdfunding venture launched by two Cambridge Judge alumni. Daniel Gennaoui from Spain and Francesco Facca of Italy were the first co-founder team to study on the Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship (PGDE) programme at Cambridge Judge. They enrolled last September, and Niume then applied and was accepted into the Accelerate Cambridge programme at Cambridge Judge. The fundraising went through crowdsourcing platform SyndicateRoom, co-founded by two Cambridge Judge MBAs. Launched in July 2014, Niume is a collaborative blogging platform in which content creators post in collaborative blogs called "Spheres" that already have large audiences, particularly in the art, travel and photography areas. The platform now has 500,000 monthly users, a figure growing by 20 per cent a month, and has a target of one million monthly users by the end of 2015. Pronounced "nee-u-me," the name Niume is a wordplay on the expression "new me." "We realised that the…