Who Owns Ground News?
Updated onExplore the ownership hierarchy of Ground News. See parent companies, holding structures, and ultimate controllers.
Ownership Chain
Ground News
News comparison platform that aggregates coverage across the political spectrum, provides bias/factuality context and AI summaries, offered as a freemium product with subscription tiers.
Starts at $0.99 / per user / monthly
uCiC
uCiC is a Toronto-based mobile social content platform and app that lets users request and receive real-time photos and videos from people anywhere in the world.
Starts at $0
Ground News
News comparison platform that aggregates coverage across the political spectrum, provides bias/factuality context and AI summaries, offered as a freemium product with subscription tiers.
Starts at $0.99 / per user / monthly
uCiC
uCiC is a Toronto-based mobile social content platform and app that lets users request and receive real-time photos and videos from people anywhere in the world.
Starts at $0
Major Shareholders
Ground News
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
Harleen Kaur Jolly Co‑founder and CEO of Snapwise Inc. (dba Ground News). Listed as a director of Snapwise Inc., a non‑distributing Canadian corporation with 50 or fewer shareholders and widely described in company and media profiles as the founder of Ground News. | Founder | — | — |
Sukhsagar Singh Jolly Co‑founder and CTO of Snapwise Inc. (publicly often referred to as Sukh Singh). Listed as a director of Snapwise Inc. and identified in company and press materials as Ground News’s co‑founder, indicating a significant equity stake. | Founder | — | — |
Techstars Ventures Venture capital arm associated with Techstars; identified in private‑company funding databases as the investor in Ground News’s Series A round (August 2022), implying a direct minority equity stake in Snapwise Inc./Ground News. | Institutional | — | — |
Digital News Innovation Challenge (Facebook Journalism Project & DMZ) Accelerator program run by the Facebook Journalism Project in partnership with Ryerson/DMZ. Public reports state that ‘Ground’ (Ground News) received US$100k in seed capital through this program, which is treated in investor databases as an equity investment. | Institutional | — | — |
Techstars Global accelerator that backed Snapwise Inc./Ground News in an earlier seed/accelerator round. Listed as an investor in multiple private‑company funding databases, indicating a small direct equity position from its accelerator investment. | Institutional | — | — |
Right Side Capital Management U.S.-based seed‑stage venture firm. Identified in Crunchbase and similar databases as a pre‑seed/seed investor in Ground News, implying a direct minority equity stake in Snapwise Inc. as the operating company behind Ground News. | Institutional | — | — |
uCiC
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
Harleen Kaur Jolly Co‑founder and CEO of uCiC / Ground News and a long‑time director of Snapwise Inc. (the legal entity behind uCiC). Public Canadian federal corporate filings list her as a director of Snapwise Inc., and press coverage consistently identifies her as the primary founder, so she is widely understood to be a major shareholder, though no public source discloses her exact equity stake. | Founder | — | Mar 2024 |
Sukhsagar Singh Jolly Also known as Sukh Singh; co‑founder of uCiC and Ground News and a key principal/director of Snapwise Inc. Corporate registry records list him as a director, and media profiles describe him as co‑founder, indicating that he is a significant shareholder. Exact ownership percentages are not publicly available. | Founder | — | Mar 2024 |
Techstars Global startup accelerator and seed investor. uCiC (Snapwise Inc.) participated in the Techstars Atlanta program, and company/funding profiles report that Techstars invested cash and services into the company in exchange for a minority equity stake during the UCiC phase. The precise percentage ownership is not publicly disclosed but is typically in the single‑digit range for Techstars portfolio companies. | Institutional | — | — |
Techstars Ventures Venture capital arm associated with Techstars. Private funding databases indicate Techstars Ventures led or participated in a roughly August 18, 2022 Series A–type round for Ground News, whose legal name is Snapwise Inc., implying a direct minority equity position. No cap‑table details or percentage ownership figures are publicly reported. | Institutional | — | Aug 2022 |
37 Angels US‑based angel investor network focused on early‑stage technology companies. Venture databases list 37 Angels as one of four investors in UCiC / Snapwise Inc. (alongside Techstars) from the uCiC era, indicating a direct but undisclosed minority equity stake obtained via an early‑stage financing round. | Institutional | — | — |
Right Side Capital Management US venture capital firm. Funding databases for Ground News (legal entity Snapwise Inc.) identify Right Side Capital Management as an investor in pre‑seed/seed funding rounds, which would ordinarily be structured as equity or convertible securities in Snapwise Inc. The size of its position and any subsequent dilution are not publicly disclosed. | Institutional | — | — |
The DMZ (DMZ Ventures) Toronto Metropolitan University’s DMZ startup incubator and its related investment arm DMZ Ventures. Tracxn and similar venture‑intelligence sources list the DMZ among the institutional investors in Ground (Snapwise Inc.). Public sources do not specify whether its capital was provided as direct equity or convertible/grant funding, nor the resulting ownership percentage, but it is treated in those databases as a small institutional shareholder. | Institutional | — | — |
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