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Founded
Yelp was founded in 2004 by former Paypal employees, Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman -
Popularity
According to the San Fransico chronicle, the sites popularity soared after it was redisgned in late 2005 -
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Funding
Yelp raised $5 million in funding from 2005 from bessemer Ventures and $10 million in November 2006 from Benchmark Capital. The numbers of viewers on the site grew from 12,000 in 2005, to 100,000 in 2006. By the summer of 2006, the site had one million monthly visitors. -
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International Website
Yelp introduced a site for the United Kingdom in January 2009. The first non-english Yelp was introduced in France in 2010; From 2010 to 2011, Yelp launched several more sites, in Austria, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. International website traffic doubled during the same time period. An Australian website live in November 2011. -
Expansion
in 2010, Elevation Partners invested $10 million; $75 million was spent on purchasing equity from employees and investors, while $25 million was invested in sales staff and expansion -
New Corporate Headquarters
in 2013, Yelp moved into its new corporate headquarters, occupying nearly 150,000 square feet on 12 hours of 140 Montgomery in San Fransico. -
Yelp
In early February 2015 Yelp announced it was buying Eat24, an online food-ordering service, for $134 million
