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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, Databricks, Airbnb, Instacart, Stripe, Magic Leap, Anduril Industries, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber
Founder Collective
Shield AI, SeatGeek, BuzzFeed, Omada Health, WHOOP, Socure, Andela, Formlabs, Optimizely, Pantheon
General Atlantic
AppDynamics, Toutiao, Chime, Wish, Avant, Articulate, Bolt Financial, Automation Anywhere, Coalition, Blend
Hearst Ventures
Via, BuzzFeed, SparkCognition, Hootsuite, Cogito, Drone Racing League, Snappy, Amino Apps, Zendrive, otonomo
HuffPost
Lerer Hippeau
Bowery Farming, BuzzFeed, Blockdaemon, Guideline, K Health, OpenTrons, Allbirds, Transfix, Splice, Medly Pharmacy
Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Scopely, Zipline, BuzzFeed, Casper, Glossier, Doctor On Demand, Giphy, NewsCred, Reonomy, Percolate
New Enterprise Associates
Robinhood, Databricks, Jet, TAE Technologies, Scopely, Bloom Energy, Opendoor, Radiology Partners, DataRobot, Tempus
RRE Ventures
Avant, Bolt Financial, Collective Health, Noom, Bowery Farming, BuzzFeed, Knock, VTS, Wag!, Moda Operandi
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
hollywoodreporter - Sep, 9 2021
BuzzFeed Revenue Rises as Plans to Go Public Stay on Trackbizjournals - Sep, 3 2021
BuzzFeed names former American Express comptroller to boardthegrowthop - Aug, 6 2021
BuzzFeed is reportedly getting into the cannabis businessthenewstribune - Jun, 25 2021
BuzzFeed to become a publicly traded companyhill - Jun, 14 2021
BuzzFeed to pay up to $10K for user-contributed contenthill - May, 11 2021
Report: BuzzFeed to go public, acquire lifestyle publisher Complex Networkstbfltr - May, 7 2021
BuzzFeed Appoints Litty Samuel Executive Director Of Editorial Videocityam - Apr, 12 2021
Buzzfeed UK revenue falls as pandemic hits digital advertisingtheinformation - Mar, 16 2021
Vice, BuzzFeed Facing Valuation Cuts in SPAC Dealstelegraph - Mar, 12 2021
Buzzfeed axes HuffPost UK news team as digital media boom fadesthestreet - Mar, 11 2021
BuzzFeed Reportedly in Talks With SPAC to Go Publicwebpronews - Mar, 10 2021
BuzzFeed Lays Off 47 HuffPost Workers, Will Shutter HuffPost Canadainquirer - Mar, 9 2021
New owner Buzzfeed lays off 45 from HuffPost newsroomhill - Mar, 9 2021
HuffPost laying off 47 after acquisition by BuzzFeednyti - Feb, 16 2021
BuzzFeed finalizes its acquisition of HuffPost.TechCrunch - Feb, 12 2021
BuzzFeed uses AI to create romantic partners in its latest quizbuff - Nov, 24 2020
‘Profitability in the back half of next year’: BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (and Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan) on their big mergercnn - Nov, 24 2020
BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost — and inheriting its diversity issuesTechCrunch - Nov, 19 2020
BuzzFeed acquires HuffPostmashable - Nov, 18 2020
BuzzFeed's branded sex toy AirVibe doesn't live up to the buzzpressgazette - Oct, 26 2020
Buzzfeed battled continuing losses despite savings drives before UK news closuremediapost - Jul, 31 2020
'BuzzFeed,' Bonsai Partner To Expand Ecommerce Businessdeadline - Jul, 28 2020
Lionsgate And BuzzFeed Launch Motion Picture Partnershipthestar - Jul, 23 2020
BuzzFeed lays off 50 after pandemic hurts lucrative ad dealssocaltech - Jun, 23 2020
Loot Crate, BuzzFeed Launch New Cratemediapost - May, 15 2020
BuzzFeed Shuts Down UK Editorial TeamEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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