The short-form media platform has tripled its total funding, raising cash from investors including NBCUniversal and WndrCo.

US-based online media brand Axios has secured $20m in series B funding from investors including media company NBCUniversal, co-founder and president Roy Schwartz told the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

Venture capital firms Greycroft Partners, E.ventures and Lerer Hippeau Ventures co-led the round, which also featured media and technology holding company WndrCo, investment fund Emerson Collective and Greg Penner, the chairman of retail group Walmart.

Axios launched in January this year and covers business, technology and politics, typically concentrating on…