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BuzzFeed is the leading media company for the social age, intensely focused on delivering high-quality original reporting, insight, and viral content across a rapidly expanding array of subject areas. Our technology powers the social distribution of content, detects what is trending on the web, and connects people in realtime with the hottest content of the moment. Our site is rapidly growing and reaches more than 60 million monthly unique visitors. Jonah Peretti, founder & CEO of BuzzFeed, previously co-founded the Huffington Post. Ben Smith is its Editor-in-chief, Jon Steinberg is its President & COO and Kenneth Lerer is the Executive Chairman.

Recent Milestones

• BuzzFeed received $19.3M in Series D funding. (1/3/13)Posted 1/3/13 at 6:17pm via techcrunch.com
• BuzzFeed added Rob Fishman as Contributing Editor. (12/1/12)

  Posted 6/6/13 at 3:11pm

• BuzzFeed acquired Yoke. (9/11/12)Posted 11/28/12 at 3:38pm via techcrunch.com
• BuzzFeed acquired Kingfish Labs. (9/11/12)Posted 3/28/13 at 9:52am via businessinsider.com
• BuzzFeed added Jeff Revesz as Senior Developer. (9/1/12)

  Posted 6/6/13 at 3:13pm

• BuzzFeed — BuzzFeed Surpasses 30 Million Users And Is On Track To Triple 2011 Revenue (7/24/12)Posted 7/24/12 at 7:00pm via businessinsider.com
• BuzzFeed received $15.5M in Series C funding. (1/9/12)Posted 1/9/12 at 5:08am via techcrunch.com
• BuzzFeed acquired Star.me. (9/1/11)Posted 5/6/13 at 12:54pm via crosscutventures.com
• BuzzFeed added Mark Frackt as CFO. (9/1/11)

  Posted 1/10/12 at 9:14am

• BuzzFeed added Andy Wiedlin as CRO. (7/26/11)

  Posted 7/26/11 at 1:02am

• BuzzFeed added Greg Leuch as Senior Designer. (12/1/10)

  Posted 3/12/11 at 7:14pm

• BuzzFeed added Jon Steinberg as President. (6/1/10)

  Posted 5/27/10 at 3:26pm

• BuzzFeed received $8M in Series B funding. (5/12/10)Posted 5/12/10 at 10:44am via techcrunch.com
• BuzzFeed received $3.5M in Series A funding. (7/9/08)Posted 7/10/08 at 11:46am via paidcontent.org
• BuzzFeed added Scott English as Board Director. (7/1/08)

  Posted 9/23/11 at 11:53am

• BuzzFeed added Eric Buth as Developer. (10/1/07)

  Posted 2/16/08 at 5:10pm

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Sources

1. BuzzFeed’s First Acquisition Kingfish Labs Could Make Its FB Ads Go More Viral Than Football Cats (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Business Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
3. crosscutventures.com [edit]
4. Trend Site Buzzfeed Raises $3.5 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Social Publishing FTW: With 40M Users, Jonah Peretti’s BuzzFeed Raises Another $19.3M Led By NEA (techcrunch.com) [edit]BuzzFeed Surpasses 30 Million Users And Is On Track To Triple 2011 Revenue (businessinsider.com) [edit]