a16z Podcast Market Overview
Significant Exits in Last 5 Years (2/2)
Company
Parcast
- founded 2016
HQ: LA
60db
- founded: 2016
-hq: SF
Castro
founded: 1998
- hq: Dublin
Pocket Casts
- founded: 2010
- hq: Adelaide,
Australia
Type of
Company
Andreessen Horowitz
Production studio
Listening app
Listening app
Listening app
Source: Pitchbook, company websites
Description
Podcast production studio known best for true-crime and other
scripted serials across mystery, sci-fi and history genres
- 18 series to date, 20 in pipeline
- titles include Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders
Personalized short-form audio app. Shut down post-acquisition.
Podcast listening app for iOS with enhanced audio and paid
features ($9/yr, trim silence, enhance voices).
Podcast listening app designed to work across platforms (iOS,
Android, web) with better discovery & search.
Acquisition
Size
Reportedly
$100M
(3/2019)
undisclosed
(10/2017)
undisclosed
(11/2018)
undisclosed
(5/2018)
Acquirer
Spotify
G Google
G
Tiny Capital
Collective Group
(NPR, WNYC,
WBEZ Chicago,
This American Life)
unfunded
$3.5M from Khosla, Bloomberg Beta
unfunded
Total Funding
unfunded
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