GoDaddy

GoDaddy is a leading platform for small businesses, providing a comprehensive suite of services essential for establishing and managing an online presence. The company is recognized as the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, overseeing more than 55 million domain names and facilitating the registration, renewal, or transfer of domains at an impressive rate. In addition to domain registration, GoDaddy offers website hosting, security, design services, and business productivity tools, catering primarily to micro- and small businesses, as well as website design professionals and domain investors. The acquisition of payment processing platform Poynt in 2021 has enabled GoDaddy to expand its offerings to include omnicommerce solutions, which encompass online payment gateways and offline point-of-sale devices. With over 12 million customers and a diverse product portfolio exceeding 40 offerings, GoDaddy has established itself as a trusted partner for businesses seeking to thrive in the digital landscape.

Kevin Doerr

Senior Vice President and General Manager of Security

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Dan.com

Acquisition in 2022
Dan.com operates an online marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of domain names, making it accessible to a wider audience. The platform is designed to eliminate barriers between buyers and sellers in the secondary market for domains, providing users with the necessary tools to enhance their trading experience. Dan.com aims to promote independence within the domain industry, focusing on making domain name trading easy, fast, and secure for all participants. By fostering a user-friendly environment, the company seeks to empower individuals and businesses to effectively trade unused domains.

DNAcademy

Acquisition in 2022
DNAcademy is an online, accelerated learning course for domain name investing.

Tailor Brands

Series C in 2021
Tailor Brands, LTD. is an online platform that facilitates the design of brand logos, business cards, and letterheads, enabling users to create a distinct brand identity. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools that simplifies the process of starting and managing a business. Tailor Brands provides services ranging from LLC formation and obtaining necessary business permits to website development and personalized branding guidance. The platform aims to connect all essential resources in a streamlined experience, allowing entrepreneurs to efficiently build and grow their businesses while crafting a unique online presence.

Poynt

Acquisition in 2020
Poynt Co. operates an innovative payment terminal and open commerce platform, designed to enhance the commerce infrastructure for merchants. Founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers the Poynt Smart Terminal, which includes basic register functionality and runs on PoyntOS. This operating system allows developers to create applications that help merchants manage their businesses more efficiently. Additionally, Poynt provides the Poynt 5, an enterprise-grade mobile payment solution suitable for various environments, including festivals and conferences. With a focus on connecting distributors and merchants, Poynt's multipurpose terminal facilitates secure transactions while supporting a growing ecosystem of third-party applications. The company is backed by several prominent venture capital firms and operates on a global scale, with offices in India and Singapore, aiming to equip merchants worldwide with advanced technology to transform their operations.

Skyverge

Acquisition in 2020
Developer of ecommerce analytics software designed to analyze orders and transactions involved with eCommerce transactions. The company's analytics software offers reviews, tips and tutorials for eCommerce with WordPress and Skyverge that focuses on site maintenance and product purchases, enabling website developer to find quality resources and tutorials to launch or manage their eCommerce store online.

Neustar - Registry business

Acquisition in 2020
The Neustar Registry business features a high-performance backend registry technology platform and enhanced domain security systems that enable people and brands to seamlessly connect and transact online with speed, security and reliability.

Uniregistry

Acquisition in 2020
Uniregistry specializes in domain name registration and related services, aiming to simplify the online presence for users and businesses. The company offers tools for domain transfer, renewal, and search, facilitating a seamless experience for domain owners. By leveraging generic top-level domains, Uniregistry enables clients to efficiently buy, sell, and manage their domain names. Their comprehensive service agreement outlines essential procedures, ensuring clarity regarding domain ownership and management processes.

Over

Acquisition in 2020
Over is a visual communication solutions provider that helps users create visual content without the need for any design experience. Available on iOS and Android, and with a library of hand-curated templates, layouts, videos, graphics and font collections, users can customize designs, or choose from integrated stock photography libraries or their own photos to create content from scratch. Users can then post their designs on social media channels such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. Over is designed to provide a platform for users to create inspiring content, build a brand, or grow their business, regardless of their design background. The company was founded in 2011 in Silicon Valley, and has its main headquarters now in Cape Town, South Africa, with employees located all over the world.

Sellbrite

Acquisition in 2019
Sellbrite is a leading multichannel inventory and order control solution that helps retailers build, manage and grow their multichannel ecommerce business. The intuitive Sellbrite platform enables retailers to list and control their inventory on multiple online channels, such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, Shopify, Bigcommerce and others, all from one simple interface. In addition, powerful automation and order fufillment capabilities free up time and accelerate growth. And, with its wide-reaching data and reporting features, the platform delivers valuable cross-channel insights to make smarter decisions.

Cognate

Acquisition in 2018
Cognate, Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in trademark use recordal services utilizing blockchain technology. Founded in 2014, Cognate offers a platform that organizes and manages trademarks and evidence of their use, creating a permanent, time-stamped record. This service allows businesses to document both registered and unregistered trademarks, including common law rights, by uploading relevant information about their usage. By monitoring trademark usage, Cognate helps protect intellectual property rights in a secure and transparent manner. The company operates as a subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc.

Plasso

Acquisition in 2018
Plasso is an all-in-one e-commerce platform that simplifies online transactions for businesses. It allows users to set up recurring and subscription billing quickly and efficiently, managing payments, customer interactions, and user authentication automatically. With Plasso, businesses can sell a variety of products and services, including physical and digital goods, and can also send invoices and collect donations. The platform is designed for ease of use, enabling users to manage their online sales directly from their own websites without requiring any coding skills.

Main Street Hub

Acquisition in 2018
Main Street Hub, Inc. is a marketing automation and customer relationship management platform designed to support local businesses across various sectors, including retail, hospitality, health and wellness, and automotive services. Founded in 2009 and based in Austin, Texas, the company leverages proprietary technology to offer a comprehensive marketing solution that integrates social media, customer reviews, web, and email marketing. This platform allows businesses to enhance their online presence, engage customers effectively, and manage their reputations efficiently. Main Street Hub has grown to serve over 7,000 local clients and has published more than 8 million messages online. The company aims to foster thriving local economies by simplifying marketing efforts for small businesses, thereby saving them valuable time and resources. Main Street Hub operates as a subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc. and has been recognized for its rapid growth and workplace excellence.

WP Curve

Acquisition in 2016
WP Curve empowers business owners to build their business without worrying about WordPress. You get 24 / 7 access to the world's best developers for maintenance, support & unlimited small jobs.

ManageWP

Acquisition in 2016
Managing websites can be a nightmare. Updates, login credentials, backups, migrations – if you keep an eye on more than one site, you know what we're talking about. ManageWP lets you to manage all of your websites from one, easy to use dashboard. You can log into any website with a single click. Updates from all of your sites are compiled into a single list. Scheduled backups make sure you have an up-to-date backup archive in case your websites need to be rescued. Clone Wizard lets you deploy your website from one server to another in a matter of seconds. ManageWP has everything a true WordPress professional needs, like security scans, uptime monitoring, SEO, plugin & theme management, analytics, sub user access, content moderation, and a lot more.

FreedomVoice

Acquisition in 2016
FreedomVoice specializes in providing telecommunications solutions tailored for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The company offers a suite of products, including custom cloud phone numbers—local, toll-free, and vanity—that efficiently route business calls to users' mobile devices. Additionally, FreedomVoice provides cloud-based phone systems that deliver high-quality voice over IP services suitable for small offices. The company distinguishes itself through personalized customer support, ensuring that knowledgeable experts are available to assist clients with their telecommunications needs, including managing calls, voicemail messages, and faxes.

Worldwide Media

Acquisition in 2015
Worldwide Media owns over 75,000 domain names – making it one of the largest holders of internet real estate in the world

Apptix

Acquisition in 2015
Apptix is the premier provider of hosted business communication, collaboration, and IT solutions to businesses of all sizes – from SOHO to Fortune 500 – with particular expertise supporting legal, financial, healthcare, and telecom firms. A pioneer in the hosted services space, Apptix has been in operation for over a decade and currently serves 20,000 customers with hundreds of thousands of users around the world. Apptix is a profitable, publicly traded (OSE: APP) business headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

Elto

Acquisition in 2015
Elto operates a curated marketplace that connects small business owners with expert marketers and web developers. The platform facilitates collaboration between these professionals and business owners to enhance online growth. By partnering with established companies like WordPress.com and Shopify, Elto aims to assist customers in increasing website traffic, converting visitors into paying customers, and ultimately boosting revenue. Additionally, Elto has developed a hosted marketplace solution that enables various platforms to link their users with carefully selected service providers.

Nodejitsu

Acquisition in 2015
Nodejitsu is a cloud computing company that offers a platform as a service (PaaS) specifically designed for node.js applications. Founded in 2010 and located in New York, the company focuses on providing an accessible and automated cloud solution that supports data-intensive, real-time deployments. In addition to its PaaS offering, Nodejitsu features an application marketplace that facilitates the deployment and monetization of open-source node.js projects, thereby enhancing the overall user experience and fostering a community around its platform.

Mad Mimi

Acquisition in 2014
Mad Mimi is an email marketing service that allows users to create, send and track email campaigns in a fresh novel way without using templates. Founded in 2007 by Gary Levitt and developed by Tobie Langel, Dave Hoover and Jeff Patton, Mad Mimi was launched in April of 2008.

Canary Calendar

Acquisition in 2014
Canary is a calendar app for the iPhone that helps Google Calendar users efficiently schedule meetings. People often check their mobile calendars to find time to schedule meetings, but are forced to wait until they reach their computer to actually send their guest an invitation. From Canary’s unique calendar interface, users can send their availability to anyone in seconds, allowing guests to select a time and automatically schedule a meeting on both calendars—with just one click. Canary puts an end to the back-and-forth of scheduling via email, resulting in quicker turnaround times and higher response rates. Canary lets you plan faster, to do more.

(mt) Media Temple

Acquisition in 2013
(mt) Media Temple Ventures is the investment arm of [(mt) Media Temple](/organization/media-temple). In 2007, Media Temple began making investments and acquisitions in ideas that were relevant to their brand and service vision.

Ronin

Acquisition in 2013
Ronin offers small businesses and freelancers with a software solution that enables them to manage clients, projects, and invoices online. It facilitates payment integration, customized invoices, multiple currencies, and recurring invoices. Ronin offers communication tools that enable businesses to send estimates to their clients and obtain approval; tools to track and rebill expenses; and collaboration tools for teams to manage their projects. Ronin offers its services in three packages for a monthly rental: agency, team, and solo. The company was acquired by GoDaddy in October 2013. Ronin was founded in 2008 and is based in Mountain View, California.

AfterNic

Acquisition in 2013
AfterNic is a domain marketplace that provides domain listing, resale, and aftermarket purchase services. It helps those who are looking to buy, park, or sell domain names by providing services such as secure escrow services, expanded sales promotions, domain parking, domain appraisals, agent services, and more. AfterNic was founded in 1999 and is based in Waltham, M.A.

Locu

Acquisition in 2013
Locu is a platform designed to help local businesses manage and publish their listings and offerings online. By allowing businesses to input essential information such as their address, phone number, hours of operation, and service menus, Locu ensures that they can be easily found by potential customers. The platform simplifies the process by enabling businesses to update their information in one central location, which is then distributed in real-time to various partner sites, including Yelp, Foursquare, OpenTable, and Facebook. This approach not only enhances visibility but also streamlines the management of online presence for local businesses, making it easier for them to connect with over 200 million potential customers.

M.dot

Acquisition in 2013
M.dot enables all businesses and individuals to be accessible & discoverable on mobile devices. With M.dot, small businesses can create and promote their mobile presence in minutes using a smartphone app. No technical skills required. 160 million websites are still not mobile ready – websites will eventually be replaced and mobile presence will become primary. M.dot makes the transition from www. to m. simple yet rich in features.

Outright

Acquisition in 2012
Outright.com provides a simple online bookkeeping application. Outright is designed for very small businesses - entrepreneurs, self employed folks, online sellers, and other people who have to file a Schedule C. It automatically imports all of your data from Amazon, eBay, Etsy, PayPal, banks, and credit cards so that you can track your income and expenses, see how your business is doing, and be organized at tax time. It has an online version and an iPhone app, which makes it perfect for anyone who is out and about while running their business.
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