Medium

Medium is a social publishing platform established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It facilitates the sharing of ideas and perspectives by providing writers with easy-to-use creation tools and a broad distribution network. The platform allows readers to follow individuals and topics of interest, delivering a personalized content feed daily. Users can engage with the content by highlighting, recommending, or responding to posts, fostering a community around diverse thoughts and experiences. Medium aims to promote fresh thinking and encourage experimentation in the realm of ideas and storytelling.

Lauren Newton

Vice President of People and Operations

7 past transactions

Glose

Acquisition in 2021
Glose is a reading platform designed to enhance the reading experience by allowing users to discover, purchase, and engage with ebooks on both web and mobile devices. It facilitates connections among readers, enabling them to see what others are reading and participate in discussions through annotations within the texts. Users can follow fellow readers, access shared highlights and notes, and enjoy a more personalized and interactive reading journey. The platform emphasizes efficiency and social engagement, making it easier for users to synchronize their reading progress across various devices.

The Bold Italic

Acquisition in 2019
The Bold Italic is an online magazine based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2009 and currently operating as a subsidiary of A Medium Corporation. The platform serves as a hub for local voices, publishing first-person stories that reflect the diverse experiences and opinions of San Franciscans on various topics. Rather than functioning as a traditional news outlet, The Bold Italic fosters conversation and engagement within the community, encouraging readers to think critically and share their perspectives. In addition to its editorial content, the magazine supports local businesses, highlighting merchants, food vendors, galleries, and other establishments that shape the city’s cultural landscape. Through storytelling, events, and curated products, The Bold Italic aims to create authentic connections between brands and the community while celebrating the vibrant spirit of San Francisco. The company also emphasizes the importance of design, enhancing its content with original illustrations and photography to enrich the reader's experience.

Talkshow Industries, Inc.

Acquisition in 2017
Talkshow is a simple messaging application that allows its users to text in public. It was launched by Michael Sippey in 2016. Talkshow is operated from San Francisco, California.

YesPath

Acquisition in 2017
YesPath is the Account Engagement Platform that helps sales teams reach and win big accounts. It enables Adaptive Marketing. The only way to engage impatient buyers is to listen and provide genuine help faster than competitors. YesPath is a SaaS platform that learns about prospects or customers, asks questions, and recommends content and offers. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Embedly

Acquisition in 2016
Embedly provides a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple. Embedly helps publishers and consumers manage embed codes from more than 100 Websites and APIs, including YouTube, Flickr, Ustream, Picassa, Hulu, Twitpic, Quantcast, and CrunchBase. It automatically convert links from these sources into embedded media on the fly.

Superfeedr

Acquisition in 2016
Superfeedr fetches and parses RSS or Atom feeds on behalf of its users and then pushes them the new entries in these feeds. Superfeedr implements most of the current Real-time technologies and guarantees an entry detection time inferior to 15 min. Superfeedr has both an XMPP and a PubSubHubbub API.

MATTER

Acquisition in 2013
MATTER IS the home for in-depth journalism about the ideas that are shaping their future. Their stories range across science, technology, medicine and the environment: everything from corporate misdeeds and untold environmental scandals to radical new scientific ideas and the people behind them.
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