Castlemedia Services Ltd., founded on July 2024 by Jacob Lyons, Elad Radson and Aaron Aben-Danan, is a London-based company specializing in bespoke AI-driven information discovery solutions.
Castlemedia was incorporated following the consolidation of several technological advancements in the field of AI, enabling for the first time, scalable big-data analytics for millions of globally published news articles at a scale. These recent developments led to the inception of Castlemedia's flagship platform re News.
Via re News, Castlemedia's vision is to popularize its high value AI information discovery technology, so far accessible only for wealthy corporations, and make it a household global news discovery service.
re News is an AI-powered real-time global news aggregator. It indexes tens of thousands of vetted global news sources in multiple languages, analyzes each article and delivers structured, contextualized news briefs, offering innovative, powerful user-centric news experience for both businesses and individuals.
re News aims to disrupt the news industry by centering on a no-clutter, no-bias, real-time global news feed experience, enriched with AI extracted datapoints, infused with 3rd party contextual data and enhanced with powerful search and discovery features for optimal news-based opinion formation and decision-making, with features for both B2B and B2C customers.
Jacob was the Managing Director of the Strategic Advisory Group at AlTi, a NASDAQ-listed wealth and asset management firm, where he led the $300 million investment from Allianz SE. Prior to AlTi, he co-founded Rivercrown, managing €30 billion in assets across sectors with 150 employees globally, which was sold in 2022. Previously, he worked in M&A at Rothschild & Co. and continues to serve on a number of advisory boards, including The Winning Group.
Managing Director of Paris-based Vayehee SAS, a communications data analysis consultancy, Elad is a former Israeli diplomat who led the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Data Diplomacy Research Division until 2019. Before that he served senior positions in the Israeli embassies in London, Paris, and Ivory Coast. Elad holds B.As in Political Science & Economics from Carleton University & M.A. in International Relations from the Israeli Foreign Affairs Academy.
Aaron Aben-Danan is a data scientist specializing in Python, machine learning, NLP, automation, and web development. Currently the Data Science Tech Lead at Tango in Tel Aviv, he has held various roles there since 2021. Previously, he worked at Rise, ironSource and FRÉ Skincare, as well as serving as a data engineer at BPCE International, where he helped build a data lake. Aaron earned a Master’s in Mathematics with a data science focus from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.