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BuzzFeed
Consumer Services · New York City, United States · Founded 2006 Unicorn
Breaking news, original video and online content provider
BuzzFeed mafia
Startups founded by BuzzFeed alumni
Former BuzzFeed employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jake LevyUnited States
Joseph BergenUnited States
Ben KaufmanUnited States
Onyi Udeh.United States
Kenny SongJapan
Rob FishmanUnited States
Troy OsinoffUnited States
Dani GrantUnited States
Ankit GuptaUnited States
Jonathan SteinbergUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where BuzzFeed has talent and traffic
(7 of 1,227 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$55k patent portfolio · 1 active families
Where BuzzFeed concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across BuzzFeed and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
BuzzFeed's 6 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where BuzzFeed appeared as a 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.
6 deals across BuzzFeed's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
BuzzFeed's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about BuzzFeed
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BuzzFeed on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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