reCAPTCHA - Ownership and Business Overview

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reCAPTCHA Ownership

Who owns reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is owned by Alphabet. It was acquired on September 16, 2009.

reCAPTCHA Business Overview

Where is reCAPTCHA headquartered?

reCAPTCHA is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

What sector is reCAPTCHA in?

reCAPTCHA is a software company.

When was reCAPTCHA founded?

reCAPTCHA was founded in 2007.

Software M&A Summary in 2009

Out of 60 sectors in the Mergr database, software ranked 1 in number of deals in 2009. The largest software acquisition in 2009 was SPSS - which was acquired by International Business Machines for $1.2B.

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reCAPTCHA Inc.

2250 Mary Street Aparment 109,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
United States,
www.recaptcha.net

reCAPTCHA an open source technology that provides CAPTCHAs to prevent spam and fraud. Captchas are those security questions you find on Web sites that require you to decipher and type words or numbers and detects whether the user is a human.


Company Summary

SECTOR

Software

Established

2007

Subsidiary of

Google

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