Shekhar Gupta's media venture gets big names on-board

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The likes of N R Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Uday Kotak and others have funded Gupta's new venture.

Industry icons Ratan Tata, N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani and Uday Kotak have invested in Shekhar Gupta's media venture. Picture: Twitter.

New Delhi: Industry icons Ratan Tata, N RNarayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani and Uday Kotak have invested in the media venture launched by senior journalist Shekhar Gupta, his company said today.

Printline Media Pvt Ltd, a venture founded by Gupta, said it has concluded first round of funding with "a stellar list of investors".

"N R Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Uday Kotak family, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Bengaluru-based tech entrepreneur Rajiv C Mody, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Chairman, LVMH Asia Ravi Thakran, IIFL founders Nirmal Jain, R. Venkatraman, Karan Bhagat and Yatin Shah are eminent investors in the venture," the company said in a statement.

It, however, did not disclose how much money has been raised.

Printline Media will publish 'ThePrint', a multi-media, mostly digital news platform, it added.

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