# The New York Times

> The New York Times is a VC fund backing Publishing and Advertising. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-new-york-times
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nytimes
- Website: http://www.nytimes.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nytimes

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for The New York Times. Shizune tracks 16 team members at The New York Times. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/newyorktimes?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$4.6M |
| Series A | $3.1M–$9.1M |
| Series B | $500k–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Publishing | 12 | 33% |
| Advertising | 10 | 28% |
| News | 5 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 14% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 31% |
| Seed | 8 | 22% |
| Series B | 6 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 78% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Rainert | Head of Audio Product | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-rainert |
| Doreen Toben | Member of the Board of Directors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doreen-a-toben |
| Jim Motavalli | Auto Blogger | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-motavalli |
| Michael Young | Director of Machine Learning Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-young-7 |
| Nicole Perlroth | Cybersecurity Reporter | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-perlroth |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenWeb | 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 | 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 | Automattic Inc. is a technology company focused on developing and providing web-based solutions and services. Known for its robust suite of products, Automattic offers WordPress.com for website creation and management, WooCommerce for e-commerce, Jetpack for site performance and security, and other tools aimed at enhancing web functionality. | $300M | Series D | Sep 19, 2019 |  |
| Holloway | 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 | 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 | Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression. Our approach to wellness: It isn’t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shame—we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today.Our members take care of their mental and emotional health dailywith the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations.Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community—it’s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don’t have to go it alone.In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine “life-changing”), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we’ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decreases in both anxiety and depression by up to 35%.Our team is awesome. Our community is incredible. Our movement is massive. And this is just the beginning. | $5M |  | Apr 04, 2018 |  |
| Scroll | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Comcast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-interactive-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [True Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Allen & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-and-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Axel Springer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axel-springer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1745 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The New York Times's check size?

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 ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The New York Times participates in.

### How do I contact The New York Times?

Public channels for The New York Times include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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