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BuzzFeed Stock
Social News & Entertainment
About BuzzFeed Stock
BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that provides shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. BuzzFeed covers breaking news, produces original video, and creates content that people can share on the web.
BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson and is headquartered in New York, N.Y. Buzzfeed has additional offices in 18 cities around the world and more than 1500 employees including reporters, video producers, data scientists, engineers, brand strategists, and more. Notable investors include NBC Universal, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates and Hearst Ventures.
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
Lyft, Robinhood, Airbnb, Instacart, Magic Leap, Stripe, Databricks, Zenefits, Rappi, Pinterest
Founder Collective
BuzzFeed, Omada Health, Formlabs, Socure, Optimizely, Andela, Sift, Transfix, SeatGeek, OpenGov
General Atlantic
AppDynamics, Toutiao, Chime, Wish, Avant, Ginkgo Bioworks, Automation Anywhere, Blend, Box, OutSystems
Hearst Ventures
Via, BuzzFeed, SparkCognition, Cogito Corporation, Drone Racing League, Amino Apps, Zendrive, otonomo, WideOrbit
HuffPost
Lerer Hippeau
BuzzFeed, Bowery Farming, Guideline, K Health, Allbirds, Transfix, Splice, Drone Racing League, MIRROR, BarkBox
Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Scopely, Zipline, BuzzFeed, Casper, Glossier, Doctor On Demand, Giphy, NewsCred, Reonomy, Percolate
New Enterprise Associates
Robinhood, Jet, Databricks, Bloom Energy, Opendoor, Radiology Partners, Tempus, Scopely, Letgo, Automation Anywhere
RRE Ventures
Avant, Collective Health, Noom, BuzzFeed, Bowery Farming, Ripple, Wag!, Moda Operandi, Bolt, Paxos
Funding History
| June 2008 | $600K |
|---|---|
| June 2008 | $3.5M |
| May 2010 | $8.0M |
| December 2011 | $15.5M |
| December 2012 | $19.4M |
| July 2014 | $50.0M |
| September 2015 | $0 |
| September 2015 | $200M |
| November 2016 | $0 |
| November 2016 | $200M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Jonah Peretti
Chief Financial Officer
Felicia DellaFortuna
Chief Technology Officer
Peter Wang
Press
thenewstribune - Jun, 25 2021
hill - Jun, 14 2021
hill - May, 11 2021
tbfltr - May, 7 2021
cityam - Apr, 12 2021
theinformation - Mar, 16 2021
telegraph - Mar, 12 2021
thestreet - Mar, 11 2021
webpronews - Mar, 10 2021
hill - Mar, 9 2021
inquirer - Mar, 9 2021
nyti - Feb, 16 2021
TechCrunch - Feb, 12 2021
buff - Nov, 24 2020
cnn - Nov, 24 2020
TechCrunch - Nov, 19 2020
mashable - Nov, 18 2020
pressgazette - Oct, 26 2020
mediapost - Jul, 31 2020
deadline - Jul, 28 2020
thestar - Jul, 23 2020
socaltech - Jun, 23 2020
mediapost - May, 15 2020
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