Who owns Yelp?
Yelp is owned by Yelp Inc. (the United States, NYSE: YELP).[1]
Key facts
- Current owner
- Yelp Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Not recorded
- Previous owner
- None recorded
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
- Founded
- 2004
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Digital publishing
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: YELP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Yelp
Yelp publishes user reviews of restaurants, shops and services, and its recommendation software hides reviews it judges unreliable, which is the source of most complaints from business owners. It has also been a persistent complainant against Google in antitrust proceedings.
Ownership timeline of Yelp
Where Yelp sits in Yelp
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Yelp ownership tree →
Latest news about Yelp
No tagged news items yet. Headlines are added nightly from public feeds; only titles and links are stored.
Headlines link to the original publisher. Brandtree does not reproduce article text.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Yelp?
The parent company of Yelp is Yelp Inc., a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Yelp American?
Yes. Yelp originated in the United States in 2004 and its owner, Yelp Inc., is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Yelp still owned by Yelp Inc.?
Yes. As of 6 September 2026, Yelp is still owned by Yelp Inc. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Yelp Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-27 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 27 February 2026; retrieved 6 September 2026.
Report a correction Opens a pre-filled GitHub issue. See our corrections policy.