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Donuts Inc.

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Donuts Inc is dedicated to making your most important online identity -- your domain name -- as meaningful and powerful as possible.

With over 240 top-level domains and millions of registrants, Donuts offers a wide variety of clear and meaningful names that can represent your identity online in the best possible way. Whether looking for business identifiers (.ltd), navigation (.support), vertical market specifics (.builders) or broad-based generics (.world), our portfolio offers unequaled precision and differentiation.

With offices in Seattle, London, Hong Kong, and LA, we are proud to sell our products through the world's leading registrars and resellers, including Go Daddy, Alibaba, and 1and1.

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Location: United States, Washington, Bellevue

Employees: 51-200

Total raised: $110M

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Funding Rounds 1

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
10.08.2017	-	$110M	-

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Date	Title	Description
10.08.2017	Donuts Closes $110M in Financing	Donuts Inc., a Kirkland, Wash.-based global leader in top-level domains for promoting and enhancing digital identity, closed a $110m credit facility. The debt financing was led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group: Nasd...
26.03.2015	Donuts Builds Domain-Name Business Amid New Land Grab on the Web	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints In late February, a Google subsidiary won control of the top-level domain name .app with a $25 million bid, the highest price paid so far in an online land rush for new words ...
31.01.2014	Upcoming flood of new top-level domains could change how we surf the internet	A big name start-up called Donuts Inc. is finally getting a chance to test its great theory of the internet: URLs matter, and if Donuts just happens to get rich along the way, so be it. That’s the sales pitch, as the company rolls out the f...
29.01.2014	Seattle Roundup: PNNL, ADA, Donuts, Syntonic Wireless, Scout, Sparq	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Catching up on the latest non-Super Bowl related tech news: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is adding to its already substantial advanced energy research program; Ada De...
28.01.2014	.Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domains Will Open For Business Tomorrow	If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get more interesting. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures domain name through numerous re...
23.12.2013	Deals of the Year: The top 28 venture capital investments we tracked in 2013	Venture capital investing in Washington state started out with a whimper in 2013, but it is ending with a bang. After the slow start, as evidenced by the chart above from CB Insights in which just $100 million was invested in the first quar...
30.08.2013	Roundup: News from Optimum, Tagboard, BoldIQ, Twitter, IV, and Donuts	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It turns out Seattle’s Optimum Energy gained some significant strategic investors in its latest financing round. Read on for details on that, plus funding for Tagboard and Bol...
19.07.2013	Northwest Venture Investment Steady in Second Quarter; Apptio Leads the Way	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Venture capital investment in Pacific Northwest companies through the first half of 2013 was down compared to last year, but the second quarter itself marked a modest uptick. ...
17.07.2013	Roundup: UW Spinouts; Funding for Illumagear, Alpental Tech & More	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Corrected 7/17/13, 8:24 pm. See below.] The University of Washington is apparently exceeding the goals set by President Michael Young for accelerating commercialization of re...
11.04.2013	Roundup: AudienceScience, Treehouse, Donuts, EveryMove and More	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Northwest companies AudienceScience, Treehouse, Donuts, and EveryMove were among those raising significant capital in early April, while business travel companies Egencia and ...
09.04.2013	Donuts Raises Funding	Donuts Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) raised additional funding. The financing (whose amount was not disclosed) includes a Series B equity investment led by existing investor Generation...
09.04.2013	Donuts raises more cash in quest to control hundreds of domain name extensions	Donuts appears to have a pretty big appetite for fresh cash. The Bellevue startup, which emerged last year with more than $100 million in a series A funding round that was the largest in the state, has pulled in even more cash as it looks t...
25.03.2013	Domain name operator Donuts passes background checks, names new CTO	Donuts, the heavily-funded Bellevue startup, has made it through initial evaluation tests conducted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The evaluation included a look at the company’s financial and technical ...
16.07.2012	Venture Investment Hits Highest Level Since Dot-Com Era	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Venture capitalists invested some $8.1 billion in more than 800 deals in the second quarter, registering the highest such total in more than a decade, according to a new repor...
22.06.2012	What Do Donuts Have to Do With Domain Names?	Many of the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that are about to start appearing on the Internet will go to large, well-known entities trying to stake out their online real estate with an “.amex” or a “.heinz.” But the new domains are al...
13.06.2012	Amazon, Microsoft join Donuts in Web Name Race: .book, .xbox, .shop	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Seattle-area domain-name company Donuts Inc., which raised more than $100 million to amass new Internet domains, faces some heavy competition in the race for fresh digital ter...
13.06.2012	.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications	reader comments 57 with 47 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The great Internet name rush has begun. By this time next year, more than a thousand new top-level domains—such as .blog, ....
05.06.2012	Demand Media Alum Gets $100M For Domain Registrar	A brand new, domain registration startup headed by a set of ex-Demand Media executives, has just raised an astounding $100M for its efforts. Donuts Inc., headed by former Demand Media President and Chief Strategy Officer Paul Stahura, said ...
05.06.2012	This Seattle area startup just raised more than $100M in a huge series A financing	You don’t see many $100 million series A financing rounds in Seattle — or anywhere for that matter. But that’s how much cash that Donuts Inc. — a domain name registrar startup led by eNom founder Paul Stahura — has raised from the likes of ...
05.06.2012	Donuts bags $100M to bring domains like .bearclaw & .jellyfilled to market	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Donuts, the deliciously named domain registry sta...
05.06.2012	Donuts bags $100M to bring domains like .bearclaw & .jellyfilled to market	Donuts, the deliciously named domain registry startup, closed a very sweet $100 million mega round of funding, the company announced today. Donuts is focused on becoming a new registry for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), or the domain ex...
05.06.2012	Donuts Chases New Crop of Internet Addresses with $100M	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints The rush for Internet real estate is on once again, and a new Seattle-area company says it’s raised more than $100 million in a bid for hundreds of new domain names. Donuts In...
05.06.2012	.Choice: With $100M+ Raised, Donuts Launches A Registry For New Top-Level Domain Names	Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a new initiative that is set to significantly expand the number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), allowing companies, organizations, and anyone in betwe...
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Donuts Inc.

Investors 3

Funding Rounds 1

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