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DuckDuckGo is an independent, privately held company founded and led by Gabriel Weinberg; it is incorporated as Duck Duck Go, Inc. and has taken venture funding from investors like Union Square Ventur...
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 was founded in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg, who remains its chief executive and majority owner; the company frames itself as independent and majority-owned by Weinberg and team members . Publi...
Microsoft and DuckDuckGo have a commercial relationship: DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft (Bing/Microsoft Advertising) as a search and ad partner, which has at times produced contractual limits on DuckDuckGo...
Gabriel Weinberg is the founder and long-time CEO of DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search company he started in 2008 and scaled from a self-funded basement project into an international business . H...
No — Google does not own DuckDuckGo; DuckDuckGo is an independent, privately held company that has expressly stated it has never been owned by Google or any other company . Confusion stems from domain...
DuckDuckGo is organized as a privately held, independent corporation—commonly referenced in public records as "Duck Duck Go, Inc."—with its founder Gabriel Weinberg retaining majority ownership alongs...
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 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...
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...