Current Investments: Media

Stephens Media Group

Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, Stephens Media Group is a multimedia company with 50 publications in the United States, including 11 daily newspapers. The company maintains news bureaus in Washington, D.C. and Arkansas, and operates online sites for its newspapers as well as portal sites. Founded as Donrey Media Group in 1940, the company changed its name to Stephens Media Group in 2002. Stephens Media Group also has a partnership with Media News Group, which publishes newspapers in California. (www.stephensmedia.com)

Inform Technologies, LLC
Inform is a technology company in the business of structuring and organizing massive amounts of unstructured data. Founded in 2004, Inform has developed a Web-based platform that processes and translates content, with high precision, into its common semantic elements. The resulting mathematically describable index enables a faster and more precise searching and navigation experience on the Web. Inform launched its first product line in August 2006 — an array of Web services that enable online pulbishers to offer a more engaging experience to end-users, including in-line text links, relevant related articles and topic pages, which can include aggregated content from the Web, including video, audio and blogs. Additionally, the company is applying its technology to a suite of services to enable better pairings of advertisements to content, which will allow Web publishers to achieve higher CPMs. The company is privately held and has approximately 60 employees, including mathematicians, programmers, linguists, taxonomists, library scientists and other professionals based in New York and India. (www.inform.com)