Draft:Kudoboard

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

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

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

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

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

In popular culture
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.

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