News Corp

About

News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.

New York,New York,United States
5001 - 10000
http://www.newscorp.com

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Last Funding Money Raised: $500M
Industries: Education,Information Services,News,Publishing
Founded date: Jun 28, 2013
Number Of Employee: 5001 - 10000
Operating Status: Active
Stock Symbol: nasdaq:NWSA
Legal Name: NEWS CORPORATION

News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services. It operates a network of companies in the diversified media, news, education, and information services.

The global, diversified media and information services company focuses on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. It comprises businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education, and sports programming, and pay-TV distribution.

In 1979, the New York, New York-headquartered company was established by Rupert Murdoch.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

4

$512.50M

News Corp has raised a total of $512.50M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Feb 8, 2022 from a Post-IPO Debt round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Feb 8, 2022	Post-IPO Debt	$500M	—	—	—	Detail
Jun 28, 2013	IPO	—	—	—	—	Detail
Jan 8, 2010	Series Unknown	$12.50M	—	—	—	Detail
Jan 22, 2004	Funding Round	—	1	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

27

13

News Corp has made 27 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 25, 2020, when The SpringHill Company raised $100M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Jun 25, 2020 The SpringHill Company	Series Unknown	$100M	Media and Entertainment	—
Jan 9, 2020 Elara Technologies	Series Unknown	$70M	Advertising	Yes
May 2, 2018 Matterport	Series Unknown	—	3D Technology	—
Feb 27, 2018 mTag	Pre-seed	£250K	Advertising	Yes
Sep 6, 2017 Tab Media	Series A	$6M	Education	Yes

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

—

1

News Corp is funded by 1 investors. Liberty Media are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Liberty Media	—	Funding Round

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

34

News Corp has 34 current employee profiles, including Executive David Kline

Executive

Employee

Executive

Executive

Executive

Exits

News Corp has had 14 exits. News Corp most notable exits include Vidora , Matterport

Date	Company Name	Exit Type	Industry
Aug 3, 2022	Vidora	M&A	Analytics	Detail
Jul 23, 2021	Matterport	IPO	3D Technology	Detail
May 4, 2021	Scroll	M&A	Consumer Goods	Detail
Oct 29, 2020	Elara Technologies	M&A	Advertising	Detail
Jun 25, 2018	AppNexus	M&A	Ad Network	Detail

Acquisition

News Corp has acquired 24 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was DIRECTV on Apr 10, 2003. They acquired DIRECTV for $6.60B.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Apr 10, 2003 DIRECTV	Digital Entertainment	acquisition	$ 6.60B	Detail
Mar 21, 2005 Fox Cable	Film	acquisition	$ 5.86B	Detail
Jul 18, 2005 Myspace	Music	acquisition	$ 580M	Detail
Jul 18, 2005 Intermix Media	Content	acquisition	$ 580M	Detail
Dec 1, 2007 BeliefNet	Content	acquisition	—	Detail