Tech Company Financing Transactions

Stack Exchange Funding Round

Stack Exchange closed a $40 million Series D funding round on 1/20/2015. Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Bezos Expeditions and Index Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Stack Exchange
Announced On
1/20/2015
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$40,000,000
Round
Series D
Investors

Andreessen Horowitz (Lead Investor) (Christopher Dixon)

Bezos Expeditions

Index Ventures (Neil Rimer)

Spark Capital (Bijan Sabet)

Union Square Ventures (Brad Burnham)

Proceeds Purpose
Stack Exchange plans to use this latest round of funding to accelerate the growth of Stack Overflow to serve programmers on a broader scale. This will include investing additional resources into Stack Overflow Careers, a talent site dedicated to helping developers discover, access, and evaluate career opportunities.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Internet & IoT
Mailing Address
110 William St. 28th Floor
New York, NY 10038
USA
Phone
(212) 232-8294
Website
www.stackexchange.com
Email Address
[email protected]
Overview
Stack Exchange is a programming Q & A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away.
Profile
Stack Exchange LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Stack Exchange Company Twitter Account
Company News
Stack Exchange News
Facebook
Stack Exchange on Facebook
YouTube
Stack Exchange on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Joel Spolsky
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Co-Founder
Michael Pryor
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Executive Vice President
Jay Hanlon
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General Manager
Alex Miller
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VP - Engineering
David Fullerton
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VP - Finance
Jerry Raphael
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VP - Marketing
Khalid El Khatib
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VP - Operations
Mihir Pathak
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VP - Product Management
William Cole
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VP - Sales
Guy Zerega
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