Mozilla Corporation is a technology company offering internet products and solutions through iFireFox, Thunderbird, and Raindrop that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 1998 by Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt. Subsidiaries of the Mozilla Corporation are Thimble, Mozilla Foundation, Firefox Send, Firefox Private Network, and Firefox Lockbox.
Products
Firefox
Firefox is an internet browser product made by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is made to protect user privacy and not provide back doors to advertisers looking to obtain user data. It can block third party tracking cookies, block autoplay, block social trackers, take in-browser screen shots, allows users to have a master password, is available on multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux), and supports use in over 90 languages.
Acquisitions
On February 27, 20217 Mozilla Corporation announced acquiring Pocket, a company offering an application for saving and retrieving documents and videos from websites, for an undisclosed amount of money. The disposition of Pocket after the acquisition was made was that Pocket remains a separate entity from Mozilla Corporation.
Investment funds
Gigabit Community Fund
On January 1, 2012 Mozilla Corporation announced awarding grant money ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to companies totalling $1.2 million from its Gigabit Community Fund. The grants were made to education organizations requiring the grant money to deliver at least 1 gigabit per second internet speeds to their customers. Companies receiving support from the Gigabit Community Fund were operating in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri; Austin, Texas; Eugene, Oregon; and Lafayette, Louisiana.
Mozilla Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund
On June 9, 2016 Mozilla Corporation announced raising $500,000 for their Mozilla Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund. The Mozilla Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund is made to support open-source cybersecurity, code auditing, and software bug fixing projects. The fund will be used to pay cybersecurity firms to perform code audits of open-source projects and help implement software management and software development.
Investments
Mozilla Corporation has made investments in Wick Editor (grant), Mozilla Foundation (grant), Ushahidi (grant), Riseup.net (grant), Cliqz GmbH (venture funding), EverythingMe (series C), and Amara (venture round).
Timeline
Mozilla Corporation Extends Critical Firefox Search Deal with Google.
Mozilla is restructuring and planning a "new focus" on making money.
Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0; blocking redirect trackers by default.
Mozilla has appointed long-term chairwoman Mitchell Baker as CEO, replacing Chris Beard who announced his departure in August 2019.
Navrina Singh Joins the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors.
Mozilla launched an all-new VPN.
Mozilla VPN is based on the WireGuard protocol code to be "modern and lean".
Mozilla partners with Pico for release of Firefox Reality 10 Virtual Reality browser, which now supports WebXR.
Mozilla Releases Firefox Voice Assistant
Mozilla pockets Pocket in first acquisition.
Founding of Mozilla Corporation
Funding rounds
Products
People
Adam Seligman
Chief operating Officer
Amy Keating
Chief Legal Officer
Dana Bennett
Interim CPO
Dave Camp
SVP, Firefox
Eric Rescorla
CTO, Firefox
Leslie Gray
Chief of Staff, Office of CEO
Lindsey Shepard
Chief Marketing Officer
Matt Koidin
VP and General Manager, Pocket
Mitchell Baker
Chief Executive Officer, Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation
Roxi Wen
Chief Financial Officer
Selena Deckelmann
VP, Firefox Desktop
Further reading
Mozilla Extends Critical Firefox Search Deal With Google
Barry Collins
Web
August 13, 2020
Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a 'new focus' on making money
Jacob Kastrenakes
Web
August 11, 2020
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
IRL Podcast: Privacy or Profit - Why Not Both?
September 9, 2019
