StumbleUpon ranks No. 126 on the 2010 Inc. 500 [Press release]

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Inc. Magazine today ranked StumbleUpon, a discovery engine, number 126 on its 29th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. With this honor, StumbleUpon, which has a three-year sales growth rate of 2,035%, joins companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, Under Armour, Jamba Juice, American Apparel, Oracle, and hundreds of other highly successful organizations that have at one point all been recognized as members of the Inc. 500.

In addition to placing 126th in the overall national list, StumbleUpon was named the 5th fastest growing private company in the Media subcategory and placed 12th in the San Francisco-based companies subcategory.

StumbleUpon, which became an independent company in April 2009 after a management-led buyback from eBay, has achieved a number of major milestones in 2010 alone, including surpassing 10 million registered users, increasing views of its dynamic site badges – which enable users to rate and share content across the web – more than eight-fold to over a billion views per month, and growing its advertiser base by 20%. StumbleUpon is one of the top social media traffic referrers in the world, according to the web statistics firm StatCounter, and drives more than half of all social bookmarking referral traffic worldwide, according to the web analytics company Woopra.

In addition, StumbleUpon continues to bring the content discovery experience to more users, whether they’re on the web or their mobile devices. In April, StumbleUpon released an iPad application, followed last week by applications for iPhone and Android devices – both of which have been adding thousands of new users per day.

About StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended for each user. With over 15 billion stumbles to date, nearly 11 million users and 600 million personalized recommendations per month, StumbleUpon is the leading way to discover great, peer-sourced content on the Internet. Over 50,000 unique URLs are indexed through StumbleUpon each day. More than 40,000 advertisers are using StumbleUpon to promote their products and services. Founded in 2001, StumbleUpon is based in San Francisco and backed by some of the same investors behind Google and Facebook. For more information, visit www.StumbleUpon.com.

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