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SiliconANGLE

U.S. tech trade, center

Owned bySiliconANGLE Media, Inc., a privately held company co-founded and co-led by John Furrier and Dave Vellante
FundingPrimarily funded through sponsored video content via theCUBE — tech companies pay to participate in on-camera interviews at industry conferences — plus paid research products (theCUBE Research, formerly Wikibon) and branded digital content programs. Does not use paywalls or traditional banner advertising.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

SiliconANGLE was launched in 2009 by John Furrier, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who previously ran PodTech Network, one of the first venture-backed podcasting companies. Dave Vellante, who had co-founded The Wikibon Project in 2006 — an open-source technology research community — joined as co-CEO, and the two combined SiliconANGLE's news operation with Wikibon's research under SiliconANGLE Media, Inc. around 2010. The company developed theCUBE, a live video interview platform that films executives and analysts at major tech conferences such as AWS re:Invent and VMworld, and this became its primary revenue engine: technology companies pay to appear in theCUBE segments, which are then distributed as branded content. Critics, including the website Techrights, have characterized this model as 'pay to play' journalism, arguing that paying clients are unlikely to receive unfavorable coverage; the company counters that sponsors have no control over questions asked and that news editorial functions are kept separate. Third-party bias trackers such as Biasly rate SiliconANGLE near the political center, reflecting its focus on enterprise technology rather than political commentary. The outlet has grown to encompass theCUBE Research (the rebranded Wikibon), CUBE365, and theCUBE SuperStudios, positioning itself as a B2B media and analyst firm rather than a traditional news organization. Its coverage of the second Trump administration has been straightforwardly reportorial, covering topics like proposed CISA budget cuts, AI executive orders, and federal tech recruiting without strong editorial advocacy.

Sources

  1. About Us – SiliconANGLE
  2. SiliconANGLE Media – Crunchbase
  3. SiliconANGLE – Bias and Reliability (Biasly)
  4. SiliconANGLE Contact & Overview – Muck Rack
  5. SiliconANGLE is Selling Coverage (Techrights critique)
  6. How SiliconANGLE & theCUBE hit $6.6M revenue – Latka
  7. Trump administration proposes $491M cut to CISA – SiliconANGLE
  8. John Furrier – theCUBE Research profile

Profile compiled 2026-08-13; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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