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General Information

Websiteyelp.com
CategorySearch
Employees200
Founded7/04
DescriptionLocal search and review site

Offices

San Francisco, USA
706 Mission Street
7th Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94103
USA

People

Co-founder and CEO
CFO
COO
VP of Engineering
VP, Local Sales
General Counsel
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
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Former People

Co-founder and CTO
Product Manager, Sales Director
VP, Marketing
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Funding

Total$56M
Series A, 7/04
Max Levchin
$1M
Series B, 10/05
Bessemer Venture Partners
$5M
Series C, 10/06
Benchmark Capital
$10M
Series D, 2/08
DAG Ventures
$15M
Unattributed, 1/10
Elevation Partners
$25M

Competitors

Service Providers

Tags

localsearch, localreviews, reviews, avriette

Yelp

Another company founded in 2004 by two former PayPal employees, Yelp is a local reviews website covering almost 40 states. Yelp also launched in the UK in January 2009. Users write and read reviews about anything from their favorite hole in the wall restaurant to the worst downtown club. Additionally Yelp offers social networking features: the ability to add friends, groups, events, talk in forums or message contacts. The idea behind this is that users will trust their friend’s reviews more than others. Yelp’s competition comes from Citysearch, Insider Pages, Yahoo Local and Google Local.

Milestones

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    Yelp — Yelp Launches in France (5/5/10)
    Posted 5/15/10 at 7:30pm via prnewswire.com
  • Dollar
    Yelp received $25M in Unattributed funding. (1/27/10)
    Posted 1/29/10 at 7:06am via mlive.com
  • Check
    Yelp added Jeremy Krantz as Consultant. (11/09)
    Posted 2/3/10 at 4:43pm
  • Dollar
    Yelp received $15M in Series D funding. (2/26/08)
    Posted 2/26/08 at 8:25pm via paidcontent.org
  • Dollar
    Yelp received $10M in Series C funding. (10/1/06)
    Posted 7/9/07 at 10:24pm via venturebeat.com
  • Dollar
    Yelp received $5M in Series B funding. (10/1/05)
    Posted 7/9/07 at 10:26pm
  • Check
    Yelp added Keith Rabois as Board of Directors. (8/05)
    Posted 4/2/09 at 12:07pm
  • Dollar
    Yelp received $1M in Series A funding. (7/1/04)
    Posted 8/2/07 at 9:18pm
  • Check
    Yelp added Bob Goodson as Product Manager, Sales Director.
    Posted 8/5/08 at 1:02am
  • Check
    Yelp added Vlado Herman as CFO.
    Posted 8/22/08 at 10:38am
  • Check
    Yelp added Neil Kumar as VP of Engineering.
    Posted 8/12/09 at 5:03pm
  • Check
    Yelp added Brad Porteus as VP, Marketing.
    Posted 8/22/08 at 10:38am
  • Check
    Yelp added Jed Nachman as VP, Local Sales.
    Posted 8/22/08 at 10:38am
  • Check
    Yelp added Geoff Donaker as COO.
    Posted 7/9/07 at 10:23pm
  • Check
    Yelp added Russel Simmons as Co-founder and CTO.
    Posted 7/9/07 at 10:22pm
  • Check
    Yelp added Jeremy Stoppelman as Co-founder and CEO.
    Posted 7/9/07 at 10:22pm

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Uploaded: 5/9/09

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Sources

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  3. venturebeat.com [edit]
  4. User Reviews Site Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  5. Yelp gets $25M thumbs up from Elevation Partners (mlive.com) [edit]
  6. Yelp Launches in France (prnewswire.com) [edit]
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