Yelp Yelp (yelp.com) is a website that connects people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp communities have taken root in major metros across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland; Yelp drew an audience of more than 32 million unique visitors in May 2010. Yelpers have written more than 11 million local reviews, making Yelp the leading US local guide for real word of mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. Yelp Mobile is available on WAP enabled phones at mobile.yelp.com and via Yelp applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm phones.
Between February and April 2010, Elevation Partners invested approximately $95 million in Yelp through the purchase of newly issued preferred stock from the company as well as outstanding shares from employees and other shareholders.
