The New York Times
VC Fund
New York, United States
The New York Times is a VC fund in New York focused on Publishing and Advertising. The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.The New York Times has more than 50 websites and publishes 18 newspapers, including the The company previously owned The New York Times newspaper has won 98 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, and it is organized into sections: News, Opinions, Business, Arts, Science, Sports, Style, and Features. The New York Times website is rated as one of the most popular websites online, receiving over 14 million unique visitors in August 2008.The New York Times is headquartered in New York.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries The New York Times invests in
Stages The New York Times invests in
Countries The New York Times invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $750k–$4.6M
- Series A
- $3.1M–$9.1M
- Series B
- $500k–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Publishing 12 (31%)
- Advertising 10 (26%)
- News 5 (13%)
- E-Commerce 5 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (33%)
- Seed 8 (21%)
- Series B 6 (15%)
- Funding Round 6 (15%)
- Series C 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 29 (74%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
- The Netherlands 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Rainert
Head of Audio Product
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Head of Audio Product | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Doreen Toben
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jim Motavalli
Auto Blogger
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Auto Blogger | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Young
Director of Machine Learning Engineering
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Director of Machine Learning Engineering | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nicole Perlroth
Cybersecurity Reporter
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Cybersecurity Reporter | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $150M / Series E / Nov 09, 2021 | ||
| Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews. | $6.7M / Series A / Sep 09, 2020 | ||
| Automattic is a software company that develops web publishing, ecommerce, messaging, blogging, and content management products. Its portfolio includes WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Beeper, Day One, Pocket Casts, Akismet, Gravatar, Longreads, and Newspack. The company also contributes to open-source projects and tools across the WordPress ecosystem. | $300M / Series D / Sep 19, 2019 | ||
| With hundreds of hours of research, writing, and editing, Holloway's comprehensive Guides help readers make better decisions. | $4.6M / Seed / Aug 01, 2019 | ||
| Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise. They want to pierce filter bubbles and leverage economic models that can afford uncomfortable truths. It's time to escape the distraction economy and focus on what's important again. | $7M / Series A / Oct 25, 2018 | ||
| Shine is a developer of a self-care communication application designed to make well-being accessible. Their application is a messaging bot that gives out life advice and positive reinforcements including actionable tips based on confidence, daily happiness, mental health, productivity, and self-care audio challenges to grow on the go through smstexts on a daily basis, enabling people with anxiety and depression to get career and life advice to take proper care of themselves. | $5M / Series A / Apr 04, 2018 | ||
| Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise. They want to pierce filter bubbles and leverage economic models that can afford uncomfortable truths. It's time to escape the distraction economy and focus on what's important again. | $3M / Seed / Nov 16, 2016 | ||
| Emissary's platform pairs sales professionals with former executives at the companies they are targeting.Emissary is a hybrid SaaS marketplace that connects sales teams on one side with people (called emissaries, naturally) who can guide them through the sales process at companies they are familiar with. The best emissaries are generallyex-executives and employees who have recently left the target company and therefore understand the decision-making processes and the politics of the organization. These Emissaries provide unprecedented insight into the people, the culture, and the politics of the target organization, allowing their clients to close key opportunities faster. | $10M / Series A / Oct 31, 2016 | ||
| theSkimm is the daily newsletter that simplifies the headlines for the educated professional who knows enough to know she needs more. They do the reading for you and explain it with fresh editorial content, breaking down what you need to know to start the conversation. | $500K / Series B / Sep 26, 2016 | ||
| RadioPublic is a game-changing resource for startup capital, resources, and expertise for podcasters. We help you discover new podcasts and make it easy to hear all your favorites too. | Seed / Apr 26, 2016 | ||
| See all 39 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does The New York Times invest in?
The New York Times invests primarily in Publishing, Advertising and News startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does The New York Times invest in?
The New York Times typically joins rounds of $750k–$4.6M at Seed, $3.1M–$9.1M at Series A and $500k–$30M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not The New York Times's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds The New York Times took part in.
How do I contact The New York Times?
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Who are the partners at The New York Times?
The team at The New York Times includes Alex Rainert (Head of Audio Product), Doreen Toben (Member of the Board of Directors) and Jim Motavalli (Auto Blogger), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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