How to get your startup into VentureBeat
TL;DR
VentureBeat is a tech publication for technical leaders at enterprises, focused on AI, data infrastructure and security. Its guest post programme still runs in October 2026 under the DataDecisionMakers name: it costs nothing, takes full drafts of 800 to 1,200 words and rejects sales pitches. News coverage stays an editorial decision, and the way in is a short tip to tips@venturebeat.com.
What is VentureBeat?
VentureBeat has covered technology since 2006. It started with venture capital news and moved toward artificial intelligence around 2015. Its About page describes it as AI news and analysis for technology leaders at mid-market enterprises: IT directors, product leaders, data scientists, engineers, machine learning specialists and security teams. The site reports a 65% return-visitor rate and publishes no total traffic figure. Its guest section, DataDecisionMakers, carries hands-on lessons from practitioners.
Who should pitch VentureBeat?
- B2B startups selling AI, data or security products to companies with IT teams.
- Technical founders and CTOs who can write a practical article from their own deployment experience, with numbers and mistakes included.
- Skip it for consumer apps, lifestyle products and local businesses. VentureBeat's readers buy software for companies.
How much does VentureBeat cost?
Editorial coverage and guest posts are free: the guidelines list no fee for contributed articles. Paid placement is a separate deal: sponsored articles go through sales@venturebeat.com.
How do you get your startup into VentureBeat?
- Read the VentureBeat guest post guidelines. Topics are limited to AI and machine learning, data infrastructure and enterprise analytics, and security.
- Write the full article, 800 to 1,200 words, under your own first and last name. VentureBeat only accepts articles written by individuals and rejects pieces flagged as AI-written. AI tools are fine for brainstorming.
- Keep your company out of the body. Editors reject articles that sell a product and strip marketing text, images and links. Put your company link in a one-sentence bio at the end.
- Submit an editable Google Doc through the "Submit an article here" form on the guidelines page. Locked drafts are not reviewed. Featured images need a 2:1 ratio and at least 1,200 x 600 pixels.
- Wait fourteen business days. Accepted authors hear back through comments on the draft, and silence means the article was not accepted.
- For news, send a short email to tips@venturebeat.com. VentureBeat names it for press releases, interview requests and news tips.
Tips to get more out of VentureBeat
- Pick one of the four reader types the guidelines name (LLM decision makers, AI orchestrators, data infrastructure managers, security decision makers) and write for that person.
- Lead with a result from production: what you built, what broke and what it cost. A case with numbers beats an opinion piece.
- Keep a news tip under 150 words: the news, the date, one customer or data point, and one link.
- Treat the bio link as your only link, and point it to a page that explains your product to an IT buyer.
Our verdict
VentureBeat is one of the few large tech publications still taking guest articles, and the bar is clear: practical, original, written by a person and free of sales talk. B2B founders in AI, data or security should try it. Consumer startups will get more from other outlets.
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