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SEMAFOR

Brand

Company overview

The world’s first news platform designed to meet the moment we are in. Providing an unparalleled level of journalistic transparency, cutting through the noise of the news cycle with smart, distilled views and exploring competing perspectives across borders for a curious, global audience.Sign up for our email briefings:
Founded in 2022
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
147 employees (69 in marketing)
www.semafor.com/newsletters

Salaries

Typical salary range

$100,000 – $115,000

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People

Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +26.7% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$74M

Last raise

$30M

Series Unknown, 2 months ago

Funding history

Jan 2026

Venture Round Semafor · $30M

May 2023

Seed Round Semafor · $19M

Jun 2022

Pre Seed Round Semafor · $25M

Audience

Monthly website visitors
1.2M
Month over month+21%
Quarter over quarter-4.8%
Top sourceDirect (49.9%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank54.9
Traffic source mix
Direct
49.9%
Referral
22.5%
Search
20.6%
Social
6.3%
Paid referral
0.5%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

23.7K

12-mo growth

+110.5%

Monthly growth

+4.5%

News

Links

www.semafor.com/newslettersLinkedInCrunchbaseX (Twitter)