Report: BuzzFeed Valued at $1.5 Billion J.K. Trotter · 07/30/15 04:05PM Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka of Recode are reporting that Comcast subsidiary NBCUniversal plans to invest $250 million in BuzzFeed. According to the Swisher and Kafka, the deal “will value the booming digital publisher at around $1.5 billion.”