Īs of December 31, 2021, approximately 244.4 million reviews were available on its business listing pages. Yelp became a public company via an initial public offering in March 2012 and became profitable for the first time two years later. In 2009, it entered unsuccessful negotiations to be acquired by Google. From 2009 to 2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and Asia. By 2010, it had $30 million in revenue, and the website had published about 4.5 million crowd-sourced reviews. Yelp grew in usage and raised several rounds of funding in the following years. It has since become one of the leading sources of user-generated reviews and ratings for businesses. Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman.
It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. is an American company that develops the website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. Local search, business ratings and reviews, online food delivery, local homeowner services
