# FactorDaily

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Indian digital media publication

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**FactorDaily** is an Indian digital media publication founded in 2016[1] by Pankaj Mishra and Jayadevan PK. Mishra was formerly an Editor at [TechCrunch](/source/TechCrunch) and [the Economic Times](/source/The_Economic_Times). The digital publication was launched with an intent to produce stories on the impact of technology on life in India.[2][3][4][5][6]

## History

FactorDaily began publishing in May 2016, with daily reported stories on technology, culture and life in India.

Prior to its launch, the company had raised $1 million in seed funding from [Accel India](/source/Accel_(venture_capital_firm)), Blume Ventures, Girish Mathrubootham of Freshdesk, [Vijay Shekhar Sharma](/source/Vijay_Shekhar_Sharma) of [PayTm](/source/Paytm), and [Jay Vijayan](/source/Jay_Vijayan) of Tekion.

Josey Puliyenthuruthel John, formerly Managing Editor at [Business Today](/source/Business_Today_(India)) and National Corporate Editor at [Mint](/source/Mint_(newspaper)), later joined the company as a Consulting Editor.

In January 2017, FactorDaily launched its first Podcast called The Outliers. The inaugural episode featured a conversation with Manish Sharma of Printo on his journey starting up.

## Awards

- The FactorDaily team won the Bengaluru Editors Lab 2017, a journalism hackathon organised by the [Global Editors Network](/source/Global_Editors_Network) (GEN).[7]

- The story titled "[India has 3,800 psychiatrists for 1.2bn people. Can tech step in to manage mental health?](https://factordaily.com/india-mental-health-illness-technology/)" won the first prize in the online category of the fifth [Schizophrenia Research Foundation](/source/Schizophrenia_Research_Foundation)’s (SCARF) ‘Media for Mental Health’ awards.

- The story titled 'The dark hand of tech that stokes sex trafficking in India', won the Stop Slavery media Awards by the Thomson Reuters Foundation for the year 2020.[8]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Ambitious new media startup FactorDaily aims to be India's Wired"](https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/ambitious-new-media-startup-factordaily-aims-to-be-indias-wired/). *TechCrunch*. Retrieved 2020-10-26.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Koilparambil, Aby Jose (July 18, 2018). ["Amazon in talks to invest in India's MedPlus: FactorDaily"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180718161714/https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-medplus-investment-amazon/amazon-in-talks-to-invest-in-indias-medplus-factordaily-idUKKBN1K81VS). *[Reuters](/source/Thomson_Reuters)*. Archived from [the original](https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-medplus-investment-amazon/amazon-in-talks-to-invest-in-indias-medplus-factordaily-idUKKBN1K81VS) on July 18, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Bhattacharya, Ananya (December 7, 2017). ["Thousands of Indian cows have been fitted with tiny sensors to give farmers real-time data"](https://qz.com/india/1148120/thousands-of-cows-across-india-have-been-fitted-with-sensors-to-provide-dairy-farmers-with-real-time-data/). *[Quartz](/source/Quartz_(publication))*. Retrieved November 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Sterling, Bruce (April 27, 2018). ["An Indian cryptocoin epic"](https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/04/indian-cryptocoin-epic/). *[Wired](/source/Wired_(magazine))*. Retrieved November 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Singh, Nitish; Keating, Brendan (2018). [*Hyper-localizing e-Commerce Strategy: An Emerging Market Perspective*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YaDDsg0H35gC). [Springer Publishing](/source/Springer_Publishing). Retrieved November 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Korreck, Sabrina (September 2019). [*Women Entrepreneurs in India: What is Holding Them Back?*](https://www.orfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ORF_Issue_Brief_317_Women_Entrepreneurs.pdf) (PDF). [Observer Research Foundation](/source/Observer_Research_Foundation). Retrieved November 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["SCARF Media for Mental Health prizes awarded"](https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/scarf-media-for-mental-health-prizes-awarded/article19897879.ece). *The Hindu*. 2017-10-21. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0971-751X](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0971-751X). Retrieved 2020-10-29.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["HSBC, Delta Air Lines and IBM among shortlisted candidates for new categories of the Stop Slavery Award"](http://www.trust.org/i/?id=ca8abf3d-3cee-439d-a006-ae6747e19b4a). *www.trust.org*. Thomson Reuters Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-29.

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