Developers trust Stack Overflow to help solve coding problems and use Stack Overflow Jobs to find job opportunities. We’re committed to making the internet a better place, and our products aim to enrich the lives of developers as they grow and mature in their careers.
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow sees 40 million visitors each month and is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange network, home to 150+ Q&A; sites dedicated to niche topics.
Q&A network + 
Hundreds of communities built by narrowly focused groups of experts.
Our portal for employers, connecting companies to developer talent.
Stack Overflow Company Timeline
- Joel Spolsky, then CEO of Fog Creek Software and author of widely read blog, Joel on Software, called Jeff Atwood, also well-known for his popular Coding Horror blog with the idea to start a Q&A site
- Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood launch Stack Overflow
- Series A $6M led by Union Square Ventures
- Stack Exchange Network launches, bringing Stack Overflow-style Q&A; to new topics (currently 133)
- Stack Overflow Careers launches (now named Stack Overflow Talent)
- Series B $12M led by Index Ventures with participation from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures
- Stack Overflow Careers launches its first localized site for German speakers (joined by French a year later)
- Series C $10M led by Bezos Expeditions
- Stack Exchange shipped native Android and iOS mobile apps
- Stack Overflow launches localized sites in Portuguese and Japanese
- Series D $40M led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Index Ventures, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures
- Stack Overflow Documentation, the largest content expansion since Q&A;, launches in July
- The Developer Story launches in October, giving developers a better way to present their skills
2015 Stack Exchange Network Statistics
Visits; 101 million monthly unique visitors 3.9B
Pageviews (5.7 billion of them on Stack Overflow) 7.9B
Questions asked 3.7M
Answers submitted4.6M
Edits, which improved the quality of posts 5.0M
Comments 17.9M
Upvotes24.4M
Downvotes3.8M
Registered Stack Overflow users 5.0M
Company Pages on Stack Overflow Jobs10,000+
Stack Overflow Offices
Stack Overflow currently employs more than 250 people in its head offices in New York, Denver, and London as well as remote workers from Israel, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Poland, France, Russia, the Philippines, Canada, the UK, and the United States. The company is committed to diversity in the workplace and is currently hiring.
Employees250+
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Institutional Investors
Funding to date 70M
