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Medium Stock
Social Publishing Platform
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, Magic Leap, Stripe, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber, Devoted Health
Greylock Partners
AppDynamics, Airbnb, Nuro, Dropbox, Pure Storage, Cloudera, Convoy, Blend, Rubrik, Domo
GV
Uber, Robinhood, Jet, Impossible Foods, Slack, SambaNova Systems, Snyk, DocuSign, Olive, Cloudera
Lowercase Capital
Stripe, Slack, Twitter, Automattic, Lookout, Twilio, Tala, Mark43, Medium, Optimizely
Obvious Ventures
Devoted Health, Zymergen, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Mosaic, Virta Health, Diamond Foundry, Medium, Good Eggs, VSCO, HELIX
Spark Capital
Slack, Affirm, MessageBird, Discord, Rapyd, Cybereason, Plaid, Plume Design, Niantic, Marqeta
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 - Sep, 5 2019
TechCrunch - Oct, 22 2019
BuzzFeed - Nov, 26 2019
tomsmith585 - Nov, 29 2020
TechCrunch - Aug, 11 2021
TechCrunch - Jun, 4 2021
TechCrunch - Jan, 14 2021
zpr - Nov, 16 2021
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