Sqoop

A news discovery network for journalists. News, before it's news.

Sqoop is a platform that helps business journalists discover news. After only ten months on the market, already one in four business journalists in the U.S. uses Sqoop regularly. When Yahoo and Google inked their new search deal, GeekWire broke the news because they use Sqoop. Time means everything in journalism because the outlet that breaks the news gets the eyeballs and the revenue. - Registered users growing 52% MoM for past six months. - Market penetration: 25% after only ten months on the market The founders are a 20-year PR and journalism veteran from Microsoft & RealNetworks, and a longtime search engineer and architect from AOL & Thomson Reuters '