Reddit's valuation is now approaching $2 billion

July 31, 2017

Reddit's valuation is now approaching $2 billion

steve huffman

After its greatest-ever funding round, Reddit, the popular online message board is now valued at $1.8 billion.

The San Francisco-based website raised $200 million from big-name Silicon Valley investors Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Vy Capital, Fidelity, Y Combinator President Sam Altman, and SV Angel’s Ron Conway, reports Recode.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told Recode the money will be used to expedite the streamlining of the website's famous home page, as well as to help Reddit break into the world of user-uploaded video.

“Reddit feels old. We don’t want to be associated with old,” Huffman told Recode.

Reddit was launched in 2005, and still looks almost exactly the same. Huffman explained the new home page would have a similar feel to Facebook's News Feed, and that new users would be able to visit the site for the first time and immediately understand its purpose.

The push into user-uploaded video will also allow Reddit to get in on valuable video advertising dollars. Currently, the company is not profitable.

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