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Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15.3 Million Funding Round in Newsletter Publishing Platform Substack

Fortune • July 16, 2019

Newsletter publishing platform Substack raised $15.3 million in Series A funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, and was joined by investors including Y Combinator.

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What To Read: Drew McWeeny is watching every ’80s movie

November 16, 2021

One million strong

November 15, 2021

What To Read: Jimmy Doom is writing a story a day

November 12, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

November 10, 2021

What To Read: Sari Botton is aging gracefully

November 9, 2021

The internet needs better rules, not stricter referees

November 8, 2021

What To Read: Richard Godwin is mixing the perfect cocktail

November 5, 2021

Shoutout Thread 📢

November 4, 2021

What To Read: Arjun Mahesh is refreshing your playlist

November 2, 2021

Illustrators in conversation: Adrian Tomine and Wendy MacNaughton

November 1, 2021

What To Read: Halloween treat edition

October 30, 2021

Writer in Residence Jeanette Winterson brings ghost stories to Substack

October 29, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

October 28, 2021

New tools for writers: Flexible paywall, file embeds, and more

October 27, 2021

What To Read: Becca Lee is savoring spooky season

October 26, 2021

Growing: Advice for writers, from writers

October 25, 2021

What To Read: Joey Akan is appreciating Afrobeats

October 22, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

October 21, 2021

One year in: Writer reflections on publication milestones

October 20, 2021

What To Read: Ken Lamberton is birding in pajamas

October 19, 2021

Grow: How consistency over time helped The Profile build its readership

October 18, 2021

Four years on Substack: A conversation with Bill Bishop, Substacker #1

October 15, 2021

Writer Office Hours: Grow 📅

October 14, 2021

What To Read: Valorie Clark is feeling rebellious

October 12, 2021

Grow: How a long-running menswear blog found its fit on Substack

October 11, 2021

What To Read: Jolene Handy is channeling her retro kitchen

October 8, 2021

Shoutout Thread 📢

October 7, 2021

What To Read: Jørgen Veisdal is obsessed with genius, eccentricity and mathematics

October 5, 2021

Q&A recap: Navigating the pandemic with kids

October 4, 2021

Grow: How Popular Information rallies readers around accountability

October 4, 2021

What To Read: Stacy Selby is fighting fire with fire

October 2, 2021

Introducing Substack’s first Writer in Residence

October 1, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

September 30, 2021

Grow: How a rejected cookbook proposal became a thriving reader-supported Substack

September 27, 2021

What To Read: Maya Cade is compiling Black film history

September 24, 2021

Writer Office Hours: Legal 📅

September 23, 2021

What To Read: Leah Mennies is digging deep into dumplings

September 17, 2021

Substack Grow: Growing a paid readership

September 16, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

September 16, 2021

Mavericks, At Length

September 12, 2021

What To Read: James Tate is time traveling to 1920s Wall Street

September 10, 2021

Substack Grow: Launching paid subscriptions

September 9, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

September 9, 2021

New ways to recommend and discover great writing

September 7, 2021

What To Read: Brooks Eisenbise is perusing your yearbook

September 3, 2021

Substack Grow: Growing your free list

September 3, 2021

Substack comics on the Panels app

September 2, 2021

Shoutout Thread 📢

September 2, 2021

Healing, At Length: Stillness, Dreams, and Mornings

August 29, 2021

What To Read: Andrew Zeveney is judging half a century of Oscar winners

August 27, 2021

Substack Grow: Building a home for your publication

August 26, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

August 26, 2021

Welcome Cocoon

August 24, 2021

What To Read: Michele Serro is making opera accessible

August 20, 2021

Substack Grow: Developing a publication strategy

August 19, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

August 19, 2021

Possessions, At Length: Photographs, Cookbooks, and Bling

August 15, 2021

What To Read: Emilie Filou is eating insects

August 13, 2021

Writer Office Hours 📅

August 12, 2021

Substack Grow: Start by setting goals

August 12, 2021

We’re betting on comics creators

What To Read: Isaac Fitzgerald is walking and talking

Shoutout Thread 📢

Hidden Histories, At Length: Cowboys, Movie Stars, and Animators

What To Read: Harmony Holiday is reimagining the American Songbook

Writer Office Hours 📅

Letter joins Substack to help independent writers work together

Join us for Substack Grow

What To Read: Virginia Sole-Smith is reexamining diet culture

Writer Office Hours 📅

What To Read: Will Dowd is ruminating on the moon

Writer Office Hours 📅

What to Read: Natalie Cruz is eating her way through the world's cuisines

Writer Office Hours 📅

Spotlight On: Fiction Writing with Elle Griffin of The Novelleist

What To Read: Dr. Marcia Chatelain is researching fast food history

Shoutout Thread 📢

Breaking off the engagement

What To Read: Michael Sykes is studying sneakers

Spotlight On: Local News with Tony Mecia of The Charlotte Ledger

Getting started with local news on Substack

Writer Office Hours 📅

How to craft and style a post

What To Read: Animation Obsessive is showcasing animation around the world

Writer Office Hours 📅

Building a team to help writers flourish 

Fiction, At Length: Vampires, Scientists, and Wizards

What To Read: Tyler Watamanuk is sitting pretty

Spotlight On: Investing & Finance with Mike of Nongaap Investing

A guide to publication sections

Writer Office Hours 📅

How to polish your publication's About page and one-line description

This Week: Workshop your publication descriptions

What To Read: Ben Miller is putting mental health in context

Shoutout Thread 📢

Announcing the winners of Substack Local: Telling the stories of our communities

Wisdom, At Length: Cars, Cartoons, and Creativity

What To Read: The Fast Times is spotlighting Gen X culture

Writer Office Hours 📅

Marvels, At Length: Cows, Walks, and Life Itself

What To Read: Kate Wagner is capturing the thrill of professional cycling

Writer Office Hours 📆

What’s the best writing advice you’ve received? And the worst?

Desire, At Length: Love, Rings, and Startups

What To Read: Winnie Kong is amplifying Asian American voices

Growing the pie for writers

Writer Office Hours 📅

Retelling, At Length: Letters, Ladies, and Vampires

What To Read: Max Falkowitz is nurturing bonsai trees

New: Add sections to your publication

Making, At Length: Songwriting, Cocktails, Illustrations

What To Read: Anna, Julia, Niki, and Forrest are cooking seafood

New: More control over your subscriptions and community

A guide to Substack’s moderation tools for writers

What To Read: Kevin Maguire is redefining fatherhood

What To Read: Tyler, Alex, and Serey are recommending things

Introducing Substack Local, for a new generation of local news

What To Read: Wesley Verhoeve is teaching photography

What To Read: Victor Luckerson is uncovering Black history

Investing in writers

What To Read: Tabatha Leggett is reading a book from every country

New! Homepage links, restore post drafts, and improved stats page

How we approach moderation decisions

Going Paid: How Edwin Dorsey launched and grew The Bear Cave

What To Read: Mitch Blum is hunting for the best music

Substack is for independent writers

Going Paid: Advice from Illyanna Maisonet, author of Eat Gorda Eat

Going Paid: How Camila Russo launched and grew The Defiant

Going Paid: How Craig Morgan launched and grew AZ Coyotes Insider

Going Paid: How Christopher Curtis launched and grew The Rover

Going Paid: How Courtney Martin launched and grew The Examined Family

Why we pay writers

What To Read: Alex Wolfe is walking everywhere

What's a musician doing on Substack?

What To Read: Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt want climate justice

Dear ____: Advice on writing an advice column

February 26, 2021

What To Read: Folu Akinkuotu is sampling all the best snacks

February 26, 2021

A proposed cure for media angst about Substack

February 25, 2021

Interview: Thao Nguyen shares her musical journey

February 23, 2021

Patrick McKenzie on how to think like a business for writers

February 23, 2021

Casey Newton on what writers can provide their readers

February 23, 2021

Lenny Rachitsky on how to build a consistent writing habit

February 23, 2021

How Petition grew their financial newsletter – anonymously

February 23, 2021

What To Read: Lyndsey D'Arcangelo is covering women's basketball

February 19, 2021

New! Better analytics for your subscribers

February 18, 2021

A guide to your subscriber dashboard

February 18, 2021

What To Read: Brian Potter is studying how buildings are made

February 12, 2021

What To Read: Jennifer Billock is making magic in the kitchen

February 5, 2021

Welcome, Facebook and Twitter. Seriously.

February 4, 2021

What To Read: Maddie Stone examines science and fiction

January 29, 2021

Zeynep Tufekci offers an antidote to the attention economy

January 27, 2021

What To Read: Ida Yalzadeh is mixing academia and culture

January 22, 2021

What To Read: Ariel Foxman on what it's like to be a dad

January 15, 2021

What are you reading?

January 13, 2021

New! More options to customize your Substack

January 8, 2021

It's on! Starting soon: watch live talks from Substack writers

January 8, 2021

What are you most excited about in the new year?

December 23, 2020

Substack’s view of content moderation

December 22, 2020

Interview: How Kushaan Shah reads 30-40 newsletters per week

December 18, 2020

Join us for Substack’s first writer conference on January 8th

December 17, 2020

Announcing new ways to read and find writers on Substack

December 16, 2020

What To Read: Amy Jean Porter is drawing every animal

December 11, 2020

What's an aspect of the writing process that you struggle with?

December 10, 2020

What To Read: Tse Wei Lim looks at how food is made

December 4, 2020

Give a gift subscription, plus our 2020 holiday guide

December 4, 2020

What's the best piece of writing advice you've ever received?

December 3, 2020

Write with us on Wednesdays

December 1, 2020

What does 'home' mean to you?

November 25, 2020

What To Read: Clayton Mansel is studying our brains

November 20, 2020

Tell us what you need from the writer community

November 18, 2020

What To Read: Caroline McCarthy is exploring the outdoors

November 13, 2020

What do you wish someone made a Substack about?

November 10, 2020

What To Read: Tzvi Gluckin is listening to Jewish music

November 6, 2020

Meet the first batch of Substack Bridge mentees

November 2, 2020

New! Add image captions and alt text

November 2, 2020

Interview: Jemima Kiss wants to be part of the solution to climate change

October 30, 2020

Hemingway challenge: Write an entire story in six words.

October 29, 2020

We’re taking a step towards carbon removal – and you can help

October 28, 2020

New! Customize your post’s URL + social preview

October 26, 2020

What To Read: Phil and Gillian want to live with their friends

October 24, 2020

Tell us about the best mentor you've ever had.

October 22, 2020

New! Add a custom domain to your Substack

October 21, 2020

What To Read: Sady Doyle watches a lot of horror movies

October 16, 2020

Announcing our first writer mentorship program

October 15, 2020

What's something you're excited to share on Substack this week?

October 14, 2020

What To Read: Steve Lord is exploring weird internet worlds

October 9, 2020

What To Read: Neena Saha is bridging the research gap

October 2, 2020

What To Read: Ariel Norling tells us about houses

September 25, 2020

A notification about our privacy policy

September 24, 2020

New! Find Substacks by people you follow on Twitter

September 17, 2020

How Abigail Koffler grew her email list from scratch

September 15, 2020

How Erin Moon built a thriving community around her newsletter

September 15, 2020

Your tax & finance questions, answered: a Q&A with Yanely Espinal

August 27, 2020

Substack is now available for writers going paid in India

August 26, 2020

Want to invest in your writing career? Check out On Deck’s new program

August 24, 2020

Tell us! What are your writing goals?

August 20, 2020

Substack Podcast #022: Pandemic economics with Nathan Tankus

August 13, 2020

How Jarrett Carter successfully built an audience around a niche topic

August 10, 2020

Substack Podcast #021: Cookbooks with Paula Forbes

How Scott Hines got his first 1,000 signups in less than five months

How Lenny Rachitsky earned $65,000 in his first year of writing

Introducing the new batch of Substack fellows

Substack Podcast #020: Gen Z with Terry Nguyen

Substack Podcast #019: Mental Health with Fiza Pirani

Legal support for Substack writers

Substack Podcast #018: Corporate governance with Francine McKenna 

Substack Podcast #017: Psychedelics with Zach Haigney

Next week: Building an audience from scratch, with Abigail Koffler

Fellowship Fact Sheet

Announcing the next Substack Fellowship for Independent Writers

Substack Podcast #016: Finance with Kevin Muir

Next week: Finding your niche, with Jarrett Carter

Substack Podcast #015: International news with Erin Cook

Substack Podcast #014: Healthcare with Nikhil Krishnan

New: Private Substacks

Where we stand

Substack Podcast #013: Local news with Tony Mecia of The Charlotte Ledger

Announcing Season 2 of the Substack Podcast

New: Substack writer workshop series

What's next for journalists?

Switching to Substack from Patreon

Group publishing tools on Substack

Substack’s grant program recipients, and what’s next

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