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The Athletic

Consumer Services · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2016 Colt

Subscription-based sports media publisher with smart, in-depth sports coverage in 15+ us and canadian markets

Valuation
$500M–1B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$50–100M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
500–1k
Current team size
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Investors

11 investors on The Athletic's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 6 investors entered at this stage
Advancit Capital
Ore Ventures
Courtside Ventures
Luminari Capital
BDMI
Y Combinator
Series B+ 5 investors entered at this stage
Emerson Collective
Evolution Media
Bedrock
Founders Fund
Evolution Media

Global footprint

Where The Athletic has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · San Francisco HQ
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Web traffic by country
550K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States19%
🇦🇺 Australia18.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom17.1%
🇮🇪 Ireland14.4%
🇳🇬 Nigeria13.2%
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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about The Athletic

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about The Athletic 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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