# Time Inc.

> Time Inc. is a VC fund in New York backing E-Commerce and Retail. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/time-inc-/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Time_Inc
- Website: http://www.timeinc.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TimeInc

Time Inc. is a media company that publishes over 90 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Fortune, People, InStyle, Life, Golf Magazine, Southern Living, Essence, This Old House, All You, Real Simple, and Entertainment Weekly. It has a monthly global print audience of over 120 million and worldwidedigital properties that attract more than 120 million visitors each month, including over 50 websites.Time Inc. is home to celebrated events and franchises, including the Fortune 500, Time 100, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, the Essence Festival, and the biennial Fortune Global Forum. It also provides content marketing, targeted local print and digital advertising programs, branded book publishing, and marketing and support services, including subscription sales services for magazines and other products, retail distribution and marketing services along with customer service and fulfillment services, for itself and third-party clients, including other magazine publishers.Time Inc. was first published in 1989 and is based in New York, N.Y.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Time Inc.. Shizune tracks 8 team members at Time Inc.. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/time?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 63% |
| Retail | 3 | 38% |
| Content | 2 | 25% |
| Fashion | 2 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 88% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Howard Averill | Executive Vice President and CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-averill |
| Joe Boyle | Senior Manager, Software Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-boyle |
| Lawrence Jacobs | Executive Vice President, General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lawrence-jacobs |
| Ben Bajarin | Columnist, TIME.com | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-bajarin |
| Erynn Petersen | Senior Vice President, Strategic Mobile Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erynn-peterson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Folkmanis Puppets | Folkmanis provides puppets services for a healthy childhood, encouraging play and developing skills. |  | Seed | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Rokt | ROKT is a software development company that offers e-commerce technology and software solutions to introduce marketing into e-commerce through the transaction moment in order to revolutionize the consumer purchasing experience. The business links consumers and marketers and integrates native advertisements into e-commerce sites' transactionalflows. | $26M | Series B | Jun 13, 2017 |  |
| Jash | Jash is a comedy network made up of the world's top comedians: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim and Eric, and Reggie Watts. Founded and featuring original content by partners Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim and Eric, and Reggie Watts, JASH is the first fully realized network that has expanded its reach beyond the digital space intotraditional media and branded content with various comedians always being added to the comedy collective. | $6M | Series A | Aug 30, 2016 |  |
| Loot Crate | Loot Crate, a fan-based commerce and community platform, sends monthly themed geek, gaming, and pop-culture collectibles and accessories to subscribers in the United States and internationally. It partners with movie studios, game companies, comic publishers, and general pop culture talent to deliver multiple lines of monthly themed mystery boxesto fans. Loot Crate sells pop culture crates, gaming crates, film and TV crates, and apparel crates such as socks, underwear, tees, women's apparel, and socks and wearable gear. It sells through various crate lines and its own ecommerce site Loot Vault. Chris Davis and Matthew Arevalo founded Loot Crate on May 1, 2012. Its headquarters is in Los Angeles in California. | $18.5M | Series A | Jun 02, 2016 |  |
| Snap Vision | Snap Vision’s computer vision and AI suite creates rich, consistent data-points from imagery. This lets us automatically turn brands’ imagery into structured data within a universal taxonomy. This reliable data is leveraged by fashion brands and marketplaces to power visually similar product recommendations (Snap Similar), merchandising, search,filtering and data-feed optimisations (Snap Tag), and brand protection (Snap Protect).Our solutions are low-code or no-code. Snap Similar’s product recommendations are delivered with just one line of code and no training data. Snap Tag’s tagging solution is integration free with no training data needed. Your Snap Protect brand protection report can be in your inbox after providing us with just 250 images; an order of magnitude less than any other AI system. We’re proud to offer fast integrations and free trials to make sure you experience the value of our AI for your business before you sign on the dotted line. Please reach out to us at hello@snap.vision to find out more. | $2.6M | Series A | Aug 10, 2015 |  |
| Keaton Row | Keaton Row specializes in the fields of personal styling, E-commerce, fashion merchandising, and fashion editorial. It brings the one on one relationship between a stylist and a client online. The company's stylists work directly with women to help them build versatile everyday wardrobes comprised of fewer, better pieces by guiding them tomake meaningful purchases each season. By styling new purchases with pieces they already own, they help them define their unique styles so they never have to wonder what to wear—or how to wear it—again.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $6M | Series A | Jan 21, 2015 |  |
| SirenServ | SirenServ develops and licenses web content and tools for websites and wireless carriers in the United States, Canada, and Europe.It offers GolfServ, a golf channel that provides golf content and services to a network of sites and enables the users to track their handicap and playing performance, find information on golf courses, book teetimes online, access equipment information, and view lessons from golf authorities.SirenServ was formerly known as GolfServ Online. | $1.5M |  | Nov 30, 2000 |  |
| enews.com | enews.com is an web-based magazine retailer that offers subscriptions on the internet to over 1,000 magazines. |  |  | May 04, 2000 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakwater Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakwater-investment-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Downey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/downey-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grape Arbor VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grape-arbor-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [M13](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m13) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MA Growth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ma-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Time Inc. invest in?

Time Inc. invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Content startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Time Inc.?

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### Who are the partners at Time Inc.?

The team at Time Inc. includes Howard Averill (Executive Vice President and CFO), Joe Boyle (Senior Manager, Software Engineering) and Lawrence Jacobs (Executive Vice President, General Counsel), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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