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title: "BlackRock: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company."
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type: Organization
wikidata: Q219635
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
website: https://www.blackrock.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# BlackRock

> BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1988-01-01
- Headquarters: New York City
- Status: public
- Website: https://www.blackrock.com
- Employees: 19,800 (as of 2023-01-01)
- Also known as: BLK, BlackRock, Inc.
- Industries: asset management

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/blackrock
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mxyB0DHnJlqlDUq0aGtDw
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlackRock
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackrock

## Key people

- Rob Kapito, founder (American businessman and investor)
- Larry Fink, founder (American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock)
- Susan Wagner, founder (American businesswoman)
- Larry Fink, chief executive (American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock), since 1988-01-01
- Friedrich Merz (German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- Michael Anton (American essayist, speechwriter, US Director of Policy Planning)
- Laila Shabir (Emirati businesswoman)

## Revenue

- undated: USD 12 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 11.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 11 billion (SEC filing)
- 2016-01-01: USD 12.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 13.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 14.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 14.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 16.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 19.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 17.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: USD 17.9 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: iShares

## Products

- risk management
- mutual fund
- asset management
- index fund
- Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs): Issues for Congress

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on BlackRock, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-blackrock#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001364742

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