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Kudoboard, Inc.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryEmployee Recognition Software
eCards
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Founder
  • Aaron Rubens
  • Kyler Deutmeyer
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Ron Selvey (CMO)
Websitewww.kudoboard.com

Kudoboard, Inc is a Denver, Colorado-based employee recognition platform and e-card company. The company provides online group cards and employee engagement solutions to individuals and businesses.

History and company information

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Kudoboard was co-founded in 2015 by Aaron Rubens and Kyler Deutmeyer. The company raised initial seed funding from The Idea Village.[1], and received an investment from Peakspan Capital in 2021.[2]

Rubens developed the idea for Kudoboard while working as an educator in the Teach for America program [3]. Teaching an entrepreneurship class, he had students write notes about each other and pass it around to classmates. [4] Later that year, Rubens worked with Deutmeyer to translate that experience to a cloud-based format.

Rubens serves as CEO with Deutmeyer as CTO [5]. As of 2024, the company has had more than 1 million boards created and over 10 million users across 200 countries[6].

Acquisitions

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In 2018, the company acquired groupcard.com, an early pioneer in the online greeting card space.[7]

In 2023, the company acquired Illumenotes.com, a corporate group card and gifting platform.[8]

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In 2023, the Carter Center used the platform to collect thousands of messages celebrating the 98th birthday of Jimmy Carter, 35th president of the United States [9]

The company launched the Employee Happiness Trends In The US report in 2023[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Kudoboard - Raised Funding from 2 investors - Tracxn".
  2. ^ "How We Work: PeakSpan's Thesis for HR Tech". 20 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Aaron Rubens | the Enterprisers Project".
  4. ^ "(#11) Aaron Rubens: Kudoboard, Celebrating Moments That Matter at Work, Building Products that Deliver Joy, Gratitude & Appreciation at Scale, Staying Capital Efficient & Riding Viral Waves".
  5. ^ "Kudoboard".
  6. ^ "About Us".
  7. ^ "Groupcard Acquired by Kudoboard".
  8. ^ "About".
  9. ^ "Kudos to Jimmy Carter: Messages of admiration and gratitude flow into Carter Center website". 20 February 2023.
  10. ^ ""2024 Employee Happiness Trends in the US," Report Released by Kudoboard, Underscores the Value of Recognizing Employees". 11 January 2024.