Particle News is an AI-powered news aggregation platform that organizes coverage from multiple sources into personalized stories with AI-generated summaries, audio playback, and perspective-comparison tools. Particle News's Twitter Score is 8.0 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #114,382 among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Particle News was co-founded by Sara Beykpour and Marcel Molina, both former Twitter engineers, and operates under the legal entity Mina Labs, Inc. The platform offers multiple summary formats, question-and-answer features, and tools for comparing different editorial perspectives on the same story. The Particle app launched on iOS in November 2024 and expanded worldwide on Android in February 2026.
Particle News has raised two funding rounds. A seed round of $4.4 million was led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Adverb Ventures, GC&H Investments, Ev Williams, and Scott Belsky. The company subsequently closed a $10.9 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Axel Springer Digital Ventures also participating. While Particle covers cryptocurrency among its news topics, it presents itself as a general-purpose news service rather than a crypto-native product. Particle News has published 738 posts and has been mentioned by 21 accounts, with 79 total mentions.
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Particle News draws a notable range of followers from across the technology and media space. The accounts that follow Particle News include 41 founders, 14 angel investors, 12 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Size Chad, Miles Jennings, Scott Sunarto, Alex Konrad, Alexia Bonatsos and Michael Mignano.