---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001828972-25-000173"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BZFD"
cik: "0001828972"
company_name: "BuzzFeed, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T01:44:12.157526+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BuzzFeed subsidiary secures $5.2M film production loan from BondIt LLC

## Summary
- Loan commitment $5.2M; $4.6M in cash installments from June 13 to Aug 8, 2025.
- Proceeds fund production, post-production, and delivery of a feature film.
- Repayment due from distribution-rights contracts and production tax credits: $2.6M by Mar 16, 2026, $2.4M by Aug 14, 2026, $0.2M by Sep 14, 2026.
- Lender has first-priority secured lien on all borrower assets, including IP and receivables.
- Events of default include payment failure, abandonment of production, or insolvency of borrower.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001828972-25-000173
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BZFD
- cik: 0001828972
- company_name: BuzzFeed, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828972/000182897225000173/0001828972-25-000173-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828972/000182897225000173/bzfd-20250613.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001828972-25-000173.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  BuzzFeed, Inc. incurred loan of $5.2 million with BondIt LLC maturing $2.6 million is due on March 16, 2026, $2.4 million is due on August 14, 2026, and $0.2 million is due on September 14, 2026.
  - Instrument: loan
  - Principal: $5.2 million
  - Counterparty: BondIt LLC
  - Maturity: $2.6 million is due on March 16, 2026, $2.4 million is due on August 14, 2026, and $0.2 million is due on September 14, 2026
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On June 13, 2025, 2X Blind Partners, Inc. (the “Borrower”), a majority-owned subsidiary of HuffPost Studios Canada Inc., which is an indirectly held subsidiary of BuzzFeed, Inc. (the “Company”), entered into a loan and security agreement with BondIt LLC (the “Lender”), providing for a loan commitment amount of $5.2 million (the “Loan”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828972/000182897225000173/0001828972-25-000173-index.htm

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