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  • Goquest media ventures announces strategic investment and collaboration with short form video content company digibooster

    Goquest media ventures announces strategic investment and collaboration with short form video content company digibooster

    MUMBAI: Independent content distributor GoQuest Media Ventures (GQMV) today announced a strategic investment in Digibooster, South Asia’s largest short form video content platform.

    The strategic seed investment funding round sees Digibooster raise an undisclosed sum from GoQuest Media Ventures (GQMV). 

    Digibooster is a content market platform for media and entertainment professionals looking to buy or sell video content.  The company showcases the best of all forms of video content including films, animations and TV and web series to buyers across the world creating conversations and opportunities for sales, branding and distribution through its rich library of content.  Digibooster is focusing on becoming the go-to place for anyone looking to buy short format content including content websites, brands, Facebook pages, YouTube aggregators and even individual influencers looking to build deeper engagement and traffic on their websites and pages.

    The investment from GQMV will allow the Digibooster team to grow the business by utilizing GQMV’s network of clients, industry connections and employees.  It will also expand its leadership and business development to accelerate growth and use the funds to build the team and technology to reach out to global clients. 

    GQMV’s equity investment is part of the company’s strategy to embrace new ideas and technologies and to highlight the company’s ongoing commitment to be the largest marketplace for worldwide content.

    Vivek Lath, Founder & Managing Director, GQMV commented, “I’m delighted that GoQuest Media can assist Digibooster in its growth and development and be a part of the evolving TV and media landscape.  Collaborating with and investing in Digibooster gives GoQuest Media another opportunity to shape the market that we and our partners work in.”

    Nandini Mansinghka, Founder Investor of Digibooster commented, “We are excited about the next level growth of Digibooster with GQMV as our strategic investor and partner.  We see an amazing opportunity to build Digibooster into the platform of choice for anyone looking to buy or sell short format content.  We tremendously value the deep expertise and industry network GQMV brings to build Digibooster into one of the most sought-after media companies in the next 12 months.”

    Santosh Kumar, CEO of Digibooster added, “We are excited to welcome GQMV on board.  It’s a vote of confidence for all of us at Digibooster that such a marquee name in the Media industry has decided to put their might behind us in our vision of becoming a world-class Global short format video content marketplace.  We will use the funding to build the tech team.”

  • Santosh Kumar appointed new CEO of Digibooster

    Santosh Kumar appointed new CEO of Digibooster

    MUMBAI: B2B content marketplace, Digibooster has announced that it has appointed Santosh Kumar as its new CEO. Effective February 2019, he will be responsible for building a scalable global technology-enabled marketplace for short format content.  Digibooster is setting its sights on becoming the "world's largest short-form content marketplace".

    Kumar comes with 17 years of rich and varied experience in investment banking and IT global project management, retail venture, and tech startups. He has handled projects across geographies for large MNCs like Societe Generale, and Thomson Reuters.

    Santosh has a strong background in building ventures from ground up. He was the co-founder and CEO of SpotPlay, a patent-pending travel entertainment product that had been actively deploying the product in Chile, India, and Thailand. He also co-founded Panache Silver in 2013, a silver omni channel venture which became the first silver brand to be launched on Flipkart and has expanded to 2 outlets in Bengaluru. He is an ardent sportsman and frequently participates in national and international cycling events.

    Digibooster founder and strategic investor Nandini Mansinghka said, “We are very excited about Santosh coming on board as CEO. With Santosh leading Digibooster we are perfectly poised to build a fabulous product and marketplace targeting the fragmented seller and buyer universe in the short format content space.”

    On his appointment, Kumar said, “I am happy to take up this new role as it felt like a perfect fit since I would get to build a video content marketplace given the video consumption explosion in India after Jio. Having co-founded 2 ventures and on the verge of exiting SpotPlay, I had a couple of offers to get back to corporate life or head an Incubator to mentor other startups. But that didn't seem exciting, given my penchant for building a product, build on a vision and execute and create new markets. My previous venture SpotPlay was closely linked to video content business and I always wanted to work in this industry.”

    Digibooster already has a strong library of over 10,000 short form video content pieces on the platform. With over 9,000 highly curated global subscribers for their weekly newsletter; Digibooster is focusing on becoming the go-to place for anyone looking to buy short format content including content websites, brands, facebook pages, and Youtube aggregators and even individual influencers looking to build deeper engagement and traffic on their websites and pages.