Donuts
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| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 2010 |
| Founder(s): | Paul Stahura Jonathon Nevett |
| Headquarters: | 1720 205th Place NE Sammamish, WA 98074 |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | donuts.co |
| Key People | |
| Paul Stahura, CEO Jonathon Nevett, EVP Daniel Schindler, Executive Officer | |
Donuts is a start-up company offering registry services co-founded by Paul Stahura and Jonathon Nevett, Richard Tindal, and Daniel Schindler. In April 2011, Stahura said that the company is in stealth mode and it is raising capital. ased on the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Donuts raised $1 million equity financing. [1] The company's headquarters is located in Bellevue, Washington and it has Offices in
New gTLD Applications[edit | edit source]
In June 5, 2012, Donuts announced that the company applied for 307 generic top level domain names (gTLD) in various characters sets with ICANN's New gTLD Program. The company secured $100 million capital from from multi-billion dollar private equity and venture funds to finance its gTLD business. Donuts executive said that the company is prepared to deploy capital and secure additional fund if it is necessary to ensure that it will be able to secure and operate every TLD applied for with the internet governing body. The company partnered with Demand Media Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Demand Media, Inc. as its back-end registry service provider. According to Stahura [2]
Donuts Team[edit | edit source]
The management team of the company include:[3]
- Paul Stahura, Co-founder and CEO
- Richard Tindal, Co-founder and COO
- Jonathan Nevett, Co-Founder and EVP, Corporate Affairs
- Daniel Schindler, Co-Founder and EVP Sales and Marketing
- Mason Cole, Vice-president of Communications and Industry Relations
- Kevin Wilson, Chief Financial Officer
- Alvaro Alvarez, Vice President and General Counsel
Board of Directors
- Paul Stahura, Donuts Inc.
- Chris Pacitti, Austin Ventures
- Robert Verratti, TL Ventures
- Brian Jacobs, Emergence Capital Partners
- Thomas Ball, Austin Ventures
- Jonathon Nevett, Donuts Inc.
Investors[edit | edit source]
The company's investors include:[4]
- Austin Ventures
- Adams Street Partners
- Emergence Capital Partners
- TL Ventures
- Generation Partners
- Stahurricane (Stahura’s investment fund)