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About Honey Badgers

Honey Badgers is an independent startup publication covering funding rounds, company reviews, and product launches for operators, investors, and engineers who read past the press release. It is part of the VUGA Network, a group of independent digital magazines published across the United States.

Honey Badgers is an independent digital publication covering Startups, Reviews, Funding, IPOs and Founders. Startups are covered here with the skepticism founders reserve for private conversation. It is part of VUGA Network, a group of independent digital publications published in the United States.

Analysis and explainers carry the site. A round is reported with structure where structure can be established: instrument, participation, dilution, what the money is for. Product claims get checked against the product. Company reviews follow actual use, and limited access is disclosed plainly. Rankings sold to the companies being ranked, embargoed puffery and anonymous valuation gossip with no paper behind it do not run.

Startups follows companies as they build; Reviews examines what they have actually shipped. Funding covers rounds and terms, IPOs tracks filings, pricing and the quiet period afterward, and Founders profiles the people making the calls, including calls that failed. Launches documents new products on the day they meet users. Startup News and Business News run the daily record, the first inside the ecosystem, the second across the wider market it borrows money from.

Who writes for Honey Badgers

  • Marco Bellandi
    Marco BellandiLead WriterReviews startup products in daily use and edits the news desk.
  • Ray Kowalski
    Ray KowalskiSenior CorrespondentReports funding rounds, deal terms and the investors behind them.
  • William Elliott
    William ElliottFeatures EditorReads prospectus filings and follows listings through lockup expiry.
  • Kenji Watanabe
    Kenji WatanabeContributing WriterInterviews founders about decisions they made and would now change.
  • Amelie Rousseau
    Amelie RousseauContributing WriterCovers product launches and checks whether promised features ever arrive.
  • Owen Blackwood
    Owen BlackwoodBusiness CorrespondentConnects market conditions to private company fundraising and exits.

Part of the VUGA Network

Honey Badgers is published by VUGA Media Group and operated by VUGA Enterprises LLC. The network is a group of independent digital magazines covering finance, technology, government, business, real estate, travel, health, fashion, entertainment, music, arts, sports, education, gaming, marketing and local news across the United States.