Privacy-focused web browser with built-in ad blocking, BAT crypto rewards, and an independent search index
Browser📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2015
Current Valuation
$980M
as of 2022-Q1
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Brave going public?
No. Brave is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Brave's valuation in 2026?
Brave is valued at $980M as of 2022-Q1, set by its Series A-7 ($50M, Feb 2022). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Brave filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Brave.
Who are Brave's investors?
Brave's investors include Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Propel Venture Partners, Page One Ventures, Abstract Ventures and 1 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Brave is a Chromium-based browser founded in 2015 by JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, built around aggressive ad and tracker blocking, an opt-in Basic Attention Token (BAT) crypto rewards system, and a built-in non-custodial wallet. It surpassed 100M monthly active users in 2025 and operates a fast-growing independent search index (1.6B queries/month) that is increasingly monetized through a B2B Search/LLM Context API supplying real-time web data to most top-10 LLMs. Last priced at $980M in a 2022 Series A-7 led by Page One Ventures.
Company Profile
CEO
Brendan Eich
Founded
2015
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~290
Total Raised
$252M
Est. Revenue
$29.9M (2023-Q4)
Growth
~30% YoY
Last Round
Series A-7 — $50M (Feb 2022) · Lead: Page One Ventures
Exchange calendar terms from licensed market-data feeds. Expected dates marked est. are news-derived, not exchange-confirmed. Educational only, not a listing prediction.
Fundraising Status
Series A-7 · $50M · 4y 6mo ago
privateTotal raised $252M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$25.9
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A-7
$50M
Feb 2022
Page One Ventures
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Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
38% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
13
via greenhouse
Product-build share
31%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
balanced build + GTM — 31% builders vs 69% go-to-market/G&A — scaling both sides.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Quality Assurance EngineerSenior DevOps Engineer (browser CI/CD + AWS)Sr. C++ Web EngineerSr. Security EngineerClient Success ManagerEnterprise Business Development Manager, India
Counted from Brave's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Brendan EichBrian Bondy
Investors
Founders Fund · Pantera Capital · Digital Currency Group · Propel Venture Partners · Page One Ventures · Abstract Ventures · Rising Tide
Products
Brave Browser (Chromium-based with Shields)
Brave Search (independent index)
Brave Rewards / BAT token
Brave Wallet
Brave VPN
Brave Talk
Search API & LLM Context API (B2B)
Competitors
Google Chrome · Mozilla Firefox · Apple Safari · DuckDuckGo · Microsoft Edge · Opera · Perplexity (search)
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2022-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.