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Insider Monkey

U.S. financial/business media, minimal political orientation

Owned byPrivately held; co-founded and run by Ian Dogan (Ph.D. in finance, focused on insider trading research) and Meena Krishnamsetty (editor, former Bloomberg Television/CNBC producer), with Tolga Akgoz as co-founder/CTO
FundingAdvertising and affiliate revenue on free content, plus subscription fees for paid stock-picking newsletters; estimated revenue around $14 million a year
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Insider Monkey launched around 2010 in New York, founded by Ian Dogan along with Meena Krishnamsetty and programmer/co-founder Tolga Akgoz, built around the idea of giving retail investors free access to hedge fund 13F filings and corporate insider buy/sell data that had previously been harder for ordinary investors to track. Over time the site expanded heavily into SEO-driven listicle content — articles like 'top stocks hedge funds are buying' or 'best dividend stocks' — alongside its original insider-trading and hedge-fund sentiment trackers, and added paid newsletter products. It has no major corporate parent and remains an independent, ad- and subscription-funded operation rather than part of a larger media company. Mainstream media bias-rating organizations (AllSides, Ad Fontes, Media Bias/Fact Check) have not published a formal rating for Insider Monkey, reflecting its niche as a finance-data aggregator rather than a general political news source. Its political and policy coverage, including stories touching the Trump administration, tends to focus on market and investor implications (tariffs, interest rates, regulatory moves) rather than ideological commentary. The site has faced broader industry scrutiny common to high-volume SEO content producers over reliance on templated, data-driven listicles, though no major outlet-specific scandal or retraction has been widely reported.

Sources

  1. Insider Monkey provides news for the hedge fund crowd - Talking Biz News
  2. Insider Monkey - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
  3. Insider Trading & Hedge Fund Data, and Investment Newsletter From Insider Monkey
  4. Kochava Media Index - Insider Monkey Advertising Mediakits, Reviews, Pricing, Traffic, Rate Card Cost
  5. Breaking News Headlines Today - Ground News

Profile compiled 2026-10-01; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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