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Yelp

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Connecting people with local businesses based on reviews

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2004eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $1.50B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $1.47B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $320M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2004
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Listing
IPO 2012
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
Analysis The Yelp Mafia May 12, 2026

Investors

6 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

  • HVF Labs

Series A1 investor entered at this stage

Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 7,207 incl. 85 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 49 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Yelp employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

BlockstreamEst. 2014
Jonathan WilkinsUnited States
Signal score98
BaseTenEst. 2019
Amir HaghighatUnited States
Signal score96
PhantomEst. 2021
Francesco AgostiUnited States
Signal score95
DandyEst. 2020
Daniel HanoverUnited States
Signal score95
WarpEst. 2023
Ayush SharmaUnited States
Signal score94
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
41 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States83.8%
🇨🇦 Canada7.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5%
🇩🇪 Germany1.4%
🇮🇪 Ireland0.3%
Top 5 of 41 shown
Web traffic by country
140M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States93.7%
🇦🇺 Australia1.3%
🇩🇪 Germany0.8%
🇵🇭 Philippines0.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$272k

4 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Yelp was the backer or acquirer, 2012–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

12 deals across Yelp's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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      By periodCount

        Where Yelp deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        Yelp's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        12 of 12 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Yelp on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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