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hearst.com/ventures

Investments

191

Portfolio Exits

48

Funds

1

About Hearst Ventures

Hearst Ventures is a unit of The Hearst Corporation, a diversified communications companies in the U.S. The group initiates and oversees equity investments in early-stage technology-enabled businesses, focusing on companies that utilize technology as a platform to establish new media markets or alter current media market dynamics. The group seeks companies with unique content, productivity tools, or proprietary technologies or services that will provide long-term strategic value to The Hearst Corporation.

Headquarters Location

300 West 57th Street

New York, New York, 10019,

United States

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Latest Hearst Ventures News

Denmark’s Creative Force bags $8.9M

Oct 30, 2023

Denmark-based Creative Force, an end-to-end creative operations workflow platform, announced that it has raised $8.9M in a Series A round of funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $17.9M. The investment comes from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) and Hearst Ventures, the global venture capital division of Hearst. Creative Force says it will use the funding to scale its Danish headquarters and new US office in Boston. The company also aims to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into its platform to enable retailers and brands to leverage the capabilities of AI in their creative workflows. Founded in 2019, Creative Force is a cloud-based workflow platform that helps large brands and studios create new content quickly, launch products faster, and avoid errors, manual data entry, and reshoots. The company claims the platform improves communication and collaboration throughout the entire content production process, maintains high quality and consistency, and increases efficiency by at least 30 percent. The Creative Force platform also easily integrates with popular creative software, including Capture One, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Adobe Workfront. Creative Force handled more than 10M creative assets through its platform in the past year alone and has been quietly building its technology and working with some of the world’s biggest brands.

Hearst Ventures Investments

191 Investments

Hearst Ventures has made 191 investments. Their latest investment was in Creative Force as part of their Series A on October 10, 2023.

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Hearst Ventures Investments Activity

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Date

Round

Company

Amount

New?

Co-Investors

Sources

10/16/2023

Series A

Creative Force

$8.9M

Yes

2

10/13/2023

Convertible Note

PairUp

$1.1M

Yes

1

10/1/2023

Seed VC - II

Basil Systems

$2.45M

Yes

6/6/2023

Series A - II

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$99M

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10

5/5/2023

Series A - II

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10

Date

10/16/2023

10/13/2023

10/1/2023

6/6/2023

5/5/2023

Round

Series A

Convertible Note

Seed VC - II

Series A - II

Series A - II

Company

Creative Force

PairUp

Basil Systems

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Amount

$8.9M

$1.1M

$2.45M

$99M

New?

Yes

Yes

Yes

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Co-Investors

Sources

2

1

10

10

Hearst Ventures Portfolio Exits

48 Portfolio Exits

Hearst Ventures has 48 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Contagious Communications on August 11, 2023.

Date

Exit

Companies

Valuation
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Acquirer

Sources

8/11/2023

Acquired

$99M

1

12/19/2022

Acquired

$99M

7

12/12/2022

Acquired

$99M

7

2/7/2022

Acquired

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$99M

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10

12/6/2021

Reverse Merger

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$99M

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10

Date

8/11/2023

12/19/2022

12/12/2022

2/7/2022

12/6/2021

Exit

Acquired

Acquired

Acquired

Acquired

Reverse Merger

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Acquirer

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Sources

1

7

7

10

10

Hearst Ventures Fund History

1 Fund History

Hearst Ventures has 1 fund, including Financial Venture Fund.

Closing Date

Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

Sources

8/3/2016

Financial Venture Fund

4

Closing Date

8/3/2016

Fund

Financial Venture Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

Sources

4

Hearst Ventures Team

7 Team Members

Hearst Ventures has 7 team members, including current Senior Managing Director, Kenneth A. Bronfin.

Name

Work History

Title

Status

Kenneth A. Bronfin

Senior Managing Director

Current

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Name

Kenneth A. Bronfin

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Work History

Title

Senior Managing Director

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Status

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