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This Tencent- backed incipiency is aiming for a presence in 500 sections across India

• ByStartupStory     |    January 30, 2022

When Jani Pasha and his-founder Vipul Chaudhary started Lokal in 2018, they wanted to give hyperlocal news and developments to an anon-English speaking stoner base.

The app worked with a network of 250 on-ground journalists, stringers, and on-ground deals brigades. It handed hyperlocal news on motifs ranging from husbandry and politics to diurnal information on rudiments including food and petrol prices.

The Bengaluru-primarily based totally startup first of all garnered customers thru commercials on distinct social media platforms, however maximum of its consumer acquisition became natural and thru phrase of mouth.

This model, extra or less, labored out for them, until app customers took matters a step further. Along with the use of the app for staying updated with hyperlocal news, humans primarily based totally in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana started out advertising.

Lokal furnished classifieds from neighborhood corporations and person sellers, matrimony ads, activity openings starting from positions of shipping executives to authorities jobs, and content material round lifestyles competencies consisting of finance, education, farming, and

fitness tips. Ads had been positioned at no cost in local languages, such as Tamil, Telugu,

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