Yelp
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yelp.com, Yelp!, Yelp, Inc., Yelp Inc., Yelp Inc, Yelp Incorporated
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
Key facts
- Website.traded_as
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- Website.ISIN
- US9858171054-->
- Website.name
- Yelp.com
- Website.logo
- Yelp Logo.svg
- Website.screenshot
- File:Yelp Mobile Home.png
- Website.caption
- The homepage of Yelp's iPhone app.
- Website.collapsible
- yes
- Website.collapsetext
- Screenshot
- Website.company_type
- Public
- Website.owner
- Yelp, Inc.
- Website.location
- 350 Mission Street
- Website.location_country
- U.S.
- Website.industry
- Local search, business ratings and reviews, online food delivery, local homeowner services
- Website.products
- Online advertising
- Website.revenue
- US$1.46 billion (2025)
- Website.operating_income
- US$185 million (2025)
- Website.net_income
- US$146 million (2025)
- Website.assets
- US$958 million (2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
YELP- Industry
- Services-Personal Services
- Exchange
- NYSE
- State of incorporation
- DE
- Entity type
- operating
via SEC EDGAR
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 2004
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Company history
- Origins (2004–2009)
- Private company (2009–2012)
- Public entity (2012–present)
- Features
- Features for businesses
- Relationship with businesses
- Controversy and litigation
- Astroturfing
- Alleged unfair business practices
- Political expression and politically motivated ratings
- Litigation over review content
- Investigations
- Community
- See also
- References
- External links
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman. It has since become one of the leading sources of user-generated reviews and ratings for businesses. Yelp grew in usage and raised several rounds of funding in the following years. By 2010, it had $30 million in revenue, and the website had published about 4.5 million crowd-sourced reviews. From 2009 to 2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and Asia. In 2009, it entered unsuccessful negotiations to be acquired by Google. Yelp became a public company via an initial public offering in March 2012 and became profitable for the first time two years later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yelp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.