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TheStreet

U.S. center-right (free-market/business)

Owned byA subsidiary of The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: AREN), which rebranded to Paradium.AI in August 2026; the company is majority-controlled by entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava through his holding company Simplify Inventions, with a deal pending to sell a large stake to Roundtable
FundingDigital advertising, premium/subscription products (e.g., TheStreet Pro, Action Alerts PLUS), and publicly traded-company revenue; Arena Group has reported shrinking revenue and relies on outside capital raises and Bhargava's financing
On the administrationmixed

Background

TheStreet.com was founded in 1996 by Jim Cramer and Martin Peretz as a financial news and analysis site, and went public via IPO in 1999. Through the 2000s and 2010s it built a reputation for market commentary, stock-picking content, and premium subscription products, while also selling off units like The Deal and BoardWatch/RateWatch. In 2019, Cramer and Peretz sold TheStreet for about $16.5 million to TheMaven, Inc., a digital publishing roll-up that later renamed itself The Arena Group in 2022; Cramer stepped back from day-to-day involvement around the same time, though he remains associated with the brand as a co-founder. The Arena Group has struggled financially, cycling through leadership and ownership changes, including a 2023 deal giving entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava's Simplify Inventions a controlling stake, and an August 2026 rebrand to Paradium.AI tied to an AI-content strategy and a pending investment from Roundtable. Editorially, TheStreet's content center on stock tips, market news, and personal finance, with a general pro-business, free-market orientation rather than overt partisan political coverage; watchdog sites like Media Bias/Fact Check and Biasly rate it as right-leaning on economic policy with generally high factual reliability. Its coverage of the Trump administration tends to track market performance and deregulatory policy rather than political controversies, producing a mixed overall posture — favorable when markets or pro-business policies are framed positively, critical when administration actions are seen as market-disruptive (e.g., tariffs or volatility).

Sources

  1. TheStreet - Wikipedia
  2. The Arena Group acquires TheStreet - Crunchbase
  3. Manoj Bhargava's Simplify Inventions acquires 65% stake in The Arena Group - Axios
  4. The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved - The Next Web
  5. Arena Group, Now Paradium, Signs $1 Billion Deal Contingent on $89 Million Raise - Adweek
  6. TheStreet - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  7. TheStreet - Bias and Reliability - Biasly

Profile compiled 2026-10-02; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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