Outlet profile

Futurism

U.S. center-left

Owned byRecurrent Ventures, a private equity–backed digital media company whose major investors include Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, North Equity, Powerhouse Capital, and Raga Partners

FundingDigital advertising; parent company Recurrent Ventures raised $300 million in a 2022 round led by Blackstone and has additional venture and private equity backing

On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

Futurism began as a science-focused community on Reddit in 2014, founded by Alex Klokus and Jordan Lejuwaan, and grew into a standalone website around 2015–2017, aided in part by a Knight Foundation grant. By 2019 it had reached roughly 10 million monthly readers and was acquired by Singularity University, a Silicon Valley educational nonprofit backed by Google and Deloitte, which used it as its science-and-technology media arm. In 2021, Singularity University sold Futurism to Recurrent Ventures, a venture-backed media aggregator that has since assembled a portfolio of more than 20 digital brands. Recurrent then raised $300 million in a May 2022 round led by Blackstone, giving it one of the larger capital bases in independent digital media. Futurism has earned a reputation as a media watchdog on AI-generated content, breaking notable exposés of Sports Illustrated and CNET for publishing articles under fake or AI-generated bylines. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it Left-Center with mostly factual reporting, noting that its political coverage tends to favor liberal causes and that stories about Trump consistently carry critical framing. Some AI researchers have separately accused the outlet of slanting its artificial-intelligence coverage toward a dismissive or skeptical angle, though it also publishes substantial, source-cited science journalism.

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Profile compiled 2026-07-24; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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