Digital Media Company Gimlet Media Brings In $5 Million

Gimlet Media announced the close of $5 million in financing from WPP Ventures.

Gimlet Media is a leading provider of high-quality narrative podcasts. The company is best known for its entrepreneurship podcast series StartUp, a show hosted by Gimlet CEO and cofounder Alex Blumberg. The podcast follows successful startup founders to delve deeply into the experience of getting new businesses off the ground. In 2015, Gimlet Media was named one of the top 10 most innovative media companies by Fast Company.