Gimlet Media than advertising. Members were given early access to pilots for new Gimlet shows, a Gimlet T-shirt, and access to the company's Slack channel. Gimlet then hired Blumberg's spouse and former "Rachel Maddow Show" producer Nazanin Rafsanjani to explore other ways to diversify the company's revenue. Rafsanjani spearheads Gimlet Creative, a wing of the company that "creates highly produced narrative audio in partnership with brands." On August 2, 2017, Gimlet announced it closed a $15 million Series B investment round, led by Stripes Group. Emerson Collective, Graham Holdings, Betaworks, and Cross Culture Investors also contributed to the round. In September, 2017,
Gimlet Media was announced that the podcast "Science Vs", hosted by Australian science journalist Wendy Zukerman, would move to Gimlet Media after previously being produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as part of ABC Radio's First Run digital-first podcast program. The program dissects fads that are framed as scientific facts. The second season started on July 28, 2016, and its third season returned on September 7, 2017. The shows fourth season began on March 22, 2018, and in July, announced a fifth season of the show would return in the fall of that year. In September 2016, Gimlet released the first