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DuckDuckGo has been funded by a mix of institutional venture firms and prominent individual backers — names repeatedly reported include Union Square Ventures, OMERS Ventures, GP Bullhound, Impact Amer...
DuckDuckGo has publicly acknowledged a set of outside investors primarily tied to a large secondary funding event in mid‑2021 and to a series of earlier venture and secondary transactions reported by ...
DuckDuckGo remains an independent, privately held company with no public IPO filing reported and no widely reported sale to a major tech acquirer through 2024–2025; company materials and private‑marke...
DuckDuckGo is not a solely founder-funded, closed company: multiple business databases and reporting show it has taken outside venture and secondary investments, including a disclosed $100M+ secondary...
attracted a mix of strategic corporate backers, large institutional investors and public financial lenders — notably , , , several European pension funds and development banks — drawn by the promise o...
cap table includes a mix of venture funds, -market buyers and prominent angel/backer names disclosed across databases, but precise ownership percentages are not publicly disclosed; available reporting...
DuckDuckGo’s earliest external financings are inconsistently reported across databases, but multiple sources agree that its first outside capital arrived around October 2011 and that later, much large...