Mapbox

Mapbox, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryMaps
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
FounderBonnie Bogle
Eric Gundersen Edit this on Wikidata
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Washington, D.C.
,
U.S.
Key people
  • Peter Sirota (CEO)
  • Eric Gundersen (CSO)
RevenueIncrease $100 million (2019)[1]
Number of employees
650+[2]
Websitemapbox.com

Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, Strava and Snapchat.[3] Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps.[3]

By 2020, Mapbox switched to a proprietary software license for most of the software it previously maintained as open source.[4] As of October 2020, Mapbox had a valuation of $1 billion.[5]

  1. ^ "The Right Direction: How Mapbox is Winning over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance". Forbes.
  2. ^ "Our Team". Mapbox. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  3. ^ a b "The New Cartographers". The Washington Post. 22 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Mapbox and Morrison". Paul Ramsey. 2020-12-09. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
  5. ^ Efrati, Amir; Bastone, Nick (8 October 2020). "A New Target in Antitrust Battle Against Google: Maps". The Information (company).