Volv creates short-read news stories that users can swipe through. The app combines financial and political news with popular culture, and is aimed at millennials. The founders got advice from Mark Cuban and pre-seed funding through Snap’s accelerator Yellow. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Shannon Almeida and Priyanka Vazirani didn’t have any tech experience before they decided to create their own news app.After working at a social startup on a campaign helping migrants at the border, they noticed how biased the mainstream media was. So the two decided to create an alternative.Volv, which was founded in March 2020, is an antidote to traditional news apps, Almeida told Insider. Read more: Facebook says it removed more than 1.3 billion fake accounts in the months surrounding the 2020 election The app aims to create unbiased news in real-time and bills itself as “TikTok for news.”It creates news stories, averaging at around 70 words, which users can read in less than nine seconds. The stories are listed in-app in a swipe format that’s easy on the eye. This is crucial to make the app attractive to its millennial target market, Vazirani said. A post shared by Volv ☁️ (@volvmedia) People in their teens…
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Volv bills itself as 'TikTok for news.' The Snap-backed app makes news stories you can read in 9 …
