The Ken

The Ken
Founded2016
FoundersRohin Dharmakumar, Seema Singh, Sumanth Raghavendra and Ashish Mishra
Headquarters
Bangalore, India
,
India
Websitethe-ken.com

The Ken is an Indian business news website based out of Bangalore, India.[1][2][3][4] It was launched in 2016 as a premium subscriber-only platform that publishes one article per day.[5][6][7] Its founders include Rohin Dharmakumar, Seema Singh, Sumanth Raghavendra and Ashish Mishra. PayTM founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an investor.[8]

As of September 2021, it had over 30,000 individual subscribers and over 150 corporate subscribers.[9]

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  8. ^ Dharmakumar, Rohin (17 February 2017). "The Ken announces angel funding". The Ken. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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