Recount Media is a fast-growing news start-up covering politics, business, technology, and culture. Founded in 2019 by media industry veterans and longtime collaborators John Battelle and John Heilemann, the company was created to reinvent video journalism for the platforms reshaping the news business: digital, mobile, social, and streaming. The Recount cuts through the noise and stale narratives of so much broadcast and cable coverage, never wasting our audience’s time or insulting their intelligence, and drives true dialogue instead of mindless division—all the while maintaining the highest traditional editorial standards. Starting out with a focus on politics, The Recount has firmly established itself as a wide-reaching and influential news brand on Twitter and other social sites, as well as launching a suite of successful podcasts. Now we're training our sights on the corridors of power from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Hollywood and beyond, while expanding aggressively into streaming and other new formats.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $31M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Foundry Gr... | foundrygro... |
| - | 32 Venture... | 32advisors... |
| - | Foundry | foundry.vc |
| - | UNION SQUA... | usv.com/ |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 04.05.2021 | Series B | $18M | Foundry Gr... |
| 10.03.2020 | Series A | $13M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.07.2022 | Charlie Munger calls crypto an ‘open sewer,’ says sellers are ‘delusional or evil’ | More On: cryptocurrency More bitcoin investors expect price crash than rebound: survey Dallas Mavericks fans fume at Mark Cuban over Voyager crypto bankruptcy Crypto’s white knight says he has a ‘few billion’ to rescue industry Cryptoverse:... |
| 17.02.2022 | Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger compares crypto to ‘venereal disease’ | More On: cryptocurrency How I lost $650,000 of crypto in seconds Dogecoin can become internet’s currency with key change: Robinhood CEO North Korean hacker group Lazarus linked to $615M cryptocurrency theft ‘Mona Lisa of digital world’: NFT... |
| 17.02.2022 | Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger compares crypto to ‘venereal disease’ | More On: cryptocurrency Supermodel Sara Sampaio snaps up $71K in metaverse real estate Did Melania Trump buy her own NFT at auction? ‘Crypto isn’t money’: Super Bowl cryptocurrency ads slammed by top Senate Democrat NYSE embraces digital as... |
| 20.07.2021 | News Items | This morning I was sitting outside of my coffee shop, sipping on a cortado and reading the news on my phone while the NY Times, which I buy for The Gotham Gal every morning, sat folded up next to me. I gave up on mainstream news media two d... |
| 04.05.2021 | Exclusive: The Recount raises $18 million Series B | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes. Enter your email address Please enter a valid email. Please enter a valid email. Subscription failedSub... |
| 17.03.2021 | News Moments | There are these news moments that we remember vividly forever. The plane flying into the World Trade Center. The mob breaking into the Capitol. Reagan at the Berlin Wall. Just writing the words, I can see the images in my head. Our portfoli... |
| 21.01.2021 | 15 style details you might have missed during the inauguration | The inauguration had plenty of interesting and special fashion details. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images On Wednesday, people gathered at the Capitol to swear in Joe Biden as the 46th US president... |
| 29.10.2020 | When are we going to know who won the election? | Our portfolio company Recount put out this two minute video primer on the question of “when will we know.” I like getting the information I want in a very short period of time. This does that so well. If you’re like us, you’ve had one quest... |
| 23.07.2020 | Headgum | When things are serious, we need humor more than ever. At this unique point in history, bringing more laughter and authenticity to a wider audience when many of us are aching for connection is vital. Our investment in Headgum is based on t... |
| 17.06.2020 | Real-Time Recount | Our portfolio company Recount Media, which I have blogged about here before, recently launched an interesting partnership between Recount, Twitter, and brand marketers. They are calling this partnership “Real-Time Recount.” Recount is a new... |
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