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BuzzFeed

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Breaking news, original video and online content provider

New York City, United StatesFounded 2006Consumer Services
Valuation $173M Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $185M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2006
Headquarters
New York City, United States
Listing
Public via SPAC 2021
Sector
Consumer Services
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News BuzzFeed raises $1.8M from Byron Allen affiliate in related-party share sale Sep 17, 2026 News Daily Wire seeks strategic investors, eyes IPO Jun 24, 2026 News Byron Allen takes 52% stake in BuzzFeed for $120M, becomes CEO Jun 3, 2026

Investors

17 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later15 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 1,243 incl. 7 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 31 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former BuzzFeed employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

HyphaEst. 2025
Peter WangUnited States
Signal score91
ZaiNarEst. 2017
Jake LevyUnited States
Signal score89
SemaforEst. 2022
Ben SmithUnited States
Signal score88
SlangEst. 2019
GDGabriel DuncanUnited States
Signal score86
Camp NYCEst. 2018
Ben KaufmanUnited States
Signal score85
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
27 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States75.1%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.9%
🇮🇳 India4.2%
🇨🇦 Canada3.2%
🇯🇵 Japan2.6%
Top 5 of 27 shown
Web traffic by country
46M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States62%
🇯🇵 Japan7.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.2%
🇨🇦 Canada5.1%
🇦🇺 Australia3.3%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$181k

4 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where BuzzFeed was the backer or acquirer, 2011–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

6 deals across BuzzFeed's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where BuzzFeed deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        BuzzFeed's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about BuzzFeed on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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