Flipboard Inc in a few pages, for writers, partners and anyone curious: the facts, the people, the money, the products and the news. Put together by ToolGPA, not by Flipboard Inc.
Flipboard Inc. publishes the Flipboard reading app and Surf, a browser for the open social web. The app is free to read; the company sells advertising to brands and publishers, through formats such as its Promoted Posts, and has raised venture capital.
Based in
Remote
Chief executive
Mike McCue
Valuation
$800 million
Latest round
Later round, $50 million
Ownership
Privately held
Unofficial. Put together by ToolGPA from Flipboard Inc’s own pages, news reports and our own grades, read Oct 18, 2026. Not made, paid for or approved by Flipboard Inc. toolgpa.com
Part 01 · Company
The company
Who they are, the facts in one place, and the people who run it
In a sentence
Flipboard Inc. publishes the Flipboard reading app and Surf, a browser for the open social web. The app is free to read; the company sells advertising to brands and publishers, through formats such as its Promoted Posts, and has raised venture capital.
In a paragraph
Flipboard Inc was based in Remote, with people across the United States and in Canada and the United Kingdom. Mike McCue is its CEO and co-founder. Its last reported valuation was $800 million, in September 2013.
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Fact sheet
Company
Flipboard Inc
Based in
Remote, with people across the United States and in Canada and the United Kingdom
Last valuation
$800 million (September 2013)
Website
flipboard.com
Products we list
Flipboard
Ownership: Privately held
Privately held. Flipboard's own funding announcement names Rizvi Traverse Management, Goldman Sachs, Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as its investors, and no parent company is named.
Leadership
MM
Mike McCue
CEO and co-founder
Hiring
Its careers page has an Open Positions section, but no roles were listed on it when the page was read.
Part 02 · Funding
The money
Every announced round, who put money in, and what it was last valued at
$800M
Last reported valuation, September 2013
Flipboard announced a $50 million Series C led by Rizvi Traverse Management in September 2013, then closed the round with another $50 million in December 2013, which TechCrunch said took the total past $160 million. TechCrunch reported a further $50 million from JP Morgan in July 2015.
Announced rounds, oldest first. Bar heights are to scale.
Dec 9, 2013Series C close$50 millionLed by Rizvi Traverse Management. With Goldman Sachs, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Index Ventures, Insight Venture Partners. techcrunch.com
Sep 24, 2013Series C$50 millionLed by Rizvi Traverse Management. With Goldman Sachs, Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. about.flipboard.com
Investors named
Rizvi Traverse Management
Goldman Sachs
Index Ventures
Insight Venture Partners
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
JP Morgan
Filled: led at least one round. As each announcement names them.
Last valuation
$800 million
September 2013
TechCrunch reported the figure when it covered the Series C in September 2013 and quoted chief executive Mike McCue saying the financing was put together at $800 million; Flipboard's own announcement gave no valuation.
What they make
Flipboard, as ToolGPA grades it: five subjects, a letter for each, and a GPA.
Flipboard
Free news aggregator built around topics and shared Magazines
Read Later & BookmarksFree plan4.7 on the App Store
3.2GPA
Best for browsing the news by topic, for free. Flipboard is a free news app that works like a magazine: follow topics, publishers and people, and it builds a feed you flip through.
AValue
AFree
CFeatures
BEase
BPlatforms
What reviewers praise: Several reviewers have used it for years, some of them almost daily, and call it the news reader they liked best even while complaining about recent changes.
Flipboard’s grade as a badge for its own site, free: it updates itself and links to the review. Code at toolgpa.com/badges.
Part 04 · News
News and contacts
What they have announced lately, and every official channel
This media kit is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Flipboard Inc’s pages, news reports, investors’ announcements and public filings said on the dates shown, with our own grades. It is not made, paid for or approved by Flipboard Inc, and Flipboard Inc’s names and logos are trademarks of their owner. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. ToolGPA uses affiliate links and may earn a commission from them, and it works with sponsors; no one can pay for a grade. Product pictures are Flipboard Inc’s own, from its website and app-store listings.
