Medium Stock
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About Medium Stock
Medium is a social publishing platform that aims to allow users to share ideas, stories, photos, perspectives, and more. For writers, Medium offers content creation tools combined with a distribution network. For readers, Medium allows readers to follow creators and topics that matter to them and receive a personalized feed of content every day. Readers can engage with communities using features such as highlighting, recommending, or responding to posts.
Medium was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Notable investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, and GV.
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
Lyft, Robinhood, Databricks, Airbnb, Instacart, Stripe, Magic Leap, Anduril Industries, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber
Betaworks
Greylock Partners
AppDynamics, Airbnb, Nuro, Dropbox, Pure Storage, Cloudera, Convoy, Blend, Rubrik, Domo
GV
Uber, Robinhood, Jet, Impossible Foods, Lacework, Slack, Snyk, SambaNova Systems, DocuSign, Gusto
Lowercase Capital
Stripe, Slack, Twitter, Automattic, Lookout, Handshake, Twilio, Tala, Mark43, Medium
Obvious Ventures
Magic Leap, Devoted Health, Zymergen, Gusto, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Mosaic, Virta Health, Diamond Foundry, Medium, Good Eggs
Spark Capital
Anduril Industries, Slack, Affirm, MessageBird, Discord, Rapyd, Plaid, Cybereason, Plume Design, Deel
SV Angel
Snap, Instacart, Stripe, Anduril Industries, DoorDash, Reddit, Zenefits, Pinterest, Opendoor, Slack
The Chernin Group
Scopely, OpenSea, EverlyWell, Medium, Cameo, Zola, The Athletic, Lovevery, Parsley Health, Barstool Sports
Funding History
| November 2011 | $4.9M |
|---|---|
| February 2013 | $3.5M |
| January 2014 | $15.6M |
| September 2015 | $17.1M |
| April 2016 | $8.6M |
| July 2016 | $2.6M |
| July 2019 | $10.0M |
| September 2021 | $8.7M |
| November 2021 | $4.0M |
| November 2021 | $8.9M |
| November 2021 | $10.0M |
| November 2021 | $133M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Evan Williams
Head of People
Lauren Newton
Press
TechCrunch - Mar, 6 2023
Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perkTechCrunch - Jan, 13 2023
Medium embraces Twitter alternative Mastodon with launch of its own communitykevin - Jul, 22 2022
Medium May Be Dying While LexBlog is Thrivingmna - Jul, 20 2022
Vendavo, Inc., acquired Market Mediumflip - Jul, 13 2022
Why Medium failedzpr - Nov, 16 2021
Medium acquires Knowable to bring audio to the platformTechCrunch - Aug, 11 2021
Medium revamps its Partner Program, launching new eligibility requirements and referral bonusesTechCrunch - Jun, 4 2021
Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’TechCrunch - Jan, 14 2021
Medium acquires social book reading app Glosetomsmith585 - Nov, 29 2020
Medium is Building a Monetized Alternative to TwitterBuzzFeed - Nov, 26 2019
A Man's Blog About His Life In Immigration Detention Was Shut Down By MediumTechCrunch - Oct, 22 2019
Medium says it will compensate writers based on reading time, not clapsTechCrunch - Sep, 5 2019
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