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Business Insider Raises $12 Million From Jeff Bezos and Other Investors

By Peter Kafka
Peter Kafka covers media and technology, and their intersection, at Vox. Many of his stories can be found in his Kafka on Media newsletter, and he also hosts the Recode Media podcast.

Business Insider has confirmed that it has raised another $12 million in funding in a round led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, along with other earlier investors in the site. The news site has now raised $30 million in seven years; Re/code first reported on the funding round in January.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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