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Hearst

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Overview

The Hearst Corporation is an American multinational diversified media and information company group that publishes daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines. The company also operates television stations and radio stations, and cable networks; and provides information, insights, analytics, and workflow solutions to finance, healthcare, and transportation markets. Some of its major ownership interests include 15 daily and 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300 magazines worldwide, including Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine; 30 television stations through Hearst Television, Inc., which reach a combined 19% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including A+E Networks, and ESPN Inc.; as well as business publishing, digital distribution, television production, newspaper features distribution, and real estate ventures. The Hearst Corporation was founded in 1887 and is based in New York City.

Total investments
28
Lead investments
6
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Advertising
  • Digital Media
  • News
  • Publishing
  • TV
  • TV Production
  • Video Streaming
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Investment portfolio

  • SEON

    Participated · Series C · Sep 2025

    SEON is a Hungarian-American software company whose API-based platform analyzes customer interactions in real time to surface fraud indicators and ensure AML compliance during onboarding and transactions. The system serves enterprises such as Revolut, Plaid, Nubank, Afterpay, Spotify and Entain, giving them a unified command center to spot and stop bad actors. By combining scalable compliance checks with advanced fraud prevention, SEON aims to let digital businesses grow safely even as fraud tactics grow more sophisticated. The company is doubling-down on AI-powered product development to keep pace with emerging threats and regulatory demands. Fresh capital will fund accelerated expansion in North America and other international markets as well as strategic hiring. To date, SEON has raised $187 million in venture financing, underscoring investor confidence in its ability to address a multibillion-dollar global fraud problem.

  • ClearCOGS

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

    ClearCOGS offers an AI-driven predictive analytics platform tailored to restaurant operations, providing forecasts to inform food prep, ordering, and staffing decisions. Its tools aim to reduce food waste, improve operational efficiency, and optimize profitability for foodservice operators. The platform is already used by leading restaurant brands. ClearCOGS is led by CEO Matt Wampler and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. The company raised a $3.8M Seed round to support growth. It plans to use the funding to accelerate product development, expand customer acquisition, and grow its presence in the food service sector.

  • UNLISTED

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

    Unlisted is an NYC-based AI-powered real estate technology company that uses machine learning to surface off-market and private home-sale opportunities. Its platform is designed to create more dynamic, efficient market opportunities for buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals. The service is free for homeowners and charges a nominal fee to buyers who want to start a conversation with a homeowner. Led by CEO Katie Hill, the company says it will use the new funding to create more opportunities for homeowners, home buyers, and their agents. The product combines ML-driven discovery with commercial partnerships to surface private listings that might otherwise be missed. UNLISTED operates a cloud-based platform that leverages AI and machine learning to reveal and align previously untapped real estate opportunities for buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and the industry as a whole. The company positions itself as making off-market inventory accessible where "off-market is no longer off-limits." Its product targets multiple stakeholders across real estate—buyers, sellers and agents—by identifying opportunities not visible through traditional channels. Following its Pitch HearstLab New York presentation, UNLISTED won a $100,000 investment from HearstLab and will receive hands-on support from the Lab. HearstLab indicated it will plug UNLISTED into its broader network to help scale the business. For more information the article directs readers to https://unlistedhomes.com.

  • Wellthy

    Led · Equity · May 2023

    Wellthy provides a tech-enabled care concierge service that matches skilled care coordinators—many are social workers—with families to manage appointments, transportation, equipment and other caregiving logistics. Founded in 2015 and based in New York City, the company moved from direct-to-consumer into employer-sponsored benefits by 2017 and now also works with health plans. From 2019 to 2022 lives covered by Wellthy benefits grew from about 100,000 to 2 million, and revenue increased 17x over that period. Today Wellthy partners with hundreds of companies, including about 30 Fortune 500 employers (six of the top 10) and customers such as Best Buy, Cisco and Hilton; it works with roughly 350 employers, 90% of which are full-time. The company maintains a small private-pay business so employees who leave a sponsoring employer can retain access. To expand its offering, Wellthy recently acquired Lantern, a public benefit corporation that guides families on end-of-life planning. Management says the new capital will be used to build out technology and to support launches with health insurance companies. Wellthy operates a digital care concierge platform that combines dedicated Care Coordinators with a technology platform to manage complex, chronic, and ongoing family care needs. The company partners with employers — including Facebook, Cisco, Accenture, Salesforce, and Voya — to provide no-cost access for employees and their families. Recent product priorities include enhancing its smart recommendations engine, advancing predictive support pathways, expanding self-service tools, and launching an online community for caregivers. Wellthy has recently expanded internationally with launches in Canada and the U.K., and the new capital will fund further international expansion, product development, and continued growth. The company reports 7.5X revenue growth over the past two years, revenue retention greater than 100%, more than 75 enterprise clients representing over 600 businesses, and 700,000+ people receiving no-cost access to its services. Customer impact metrics show improved engagement and productivity (90% more engaged/less stressed, 66% missing fewer meetings, 55% recouped 10+ hours, and 33% avoided leave or resignation due to caregiving support). Wellthy is a NYC-based concierge healthcare service that combines dedicated care coordinators with a technology platform to project-manage healthcare for families. The company schedules appointments, organizes medical records, researches treatment options, manages insurance, and communicates with family members. Its platform stores and organizes information digitally and the business runs on a subscription model. The founding team cites deep personal caregiving experience—CEO Lindsay Jurist-Rosner cared for her mother with MS—and collectively has over 50 years of caregiving experience. Wellthy targets family caregivers (an estimated 66 million in the U.S.) and plans to scale its team, expand its service, and announce partnerships to increase the number of families supported. The company recently closed a seed financing to support those near-term goals.

  • Signal AI

    Participated · Series D · Dec 2021

    Signal AI develops a market intelligence and information discovery platform that ingests unstructured data from news, social media, and other online sources to give clients actionable, real-time insights. The system currently tracks more than 75,000 online news outlets, 3.5 million blogs, and 100 social networks, leveraging predictive analytics to surface relevant information for business decision-makers. Led by CEO David Benigson, the company positions itself as a next-generation alternative to traditional media monitoring services. In conjunction with its newest financing, Signal is partnering with Roxhill Media, the new venture of lead investor Alex Northcott. The fresh capital will be used to expand operations and further scale the platform. Prior to this round, the startup had secured a $1.85 million seed round in April 2015.

Team

  • Lincoln Millstein

    SVP & Special Assistant to the CEO

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  • Mike DeLuca

    President & Publisher, Hearst Connecticut Media Group & CEO LocalEdge, Hearst

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  • William Randolph Hearst

    Founder

  • Todd Haskell

    Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Hearst Magazines Digital Media

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