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About Cliqz GmbH

The mission of the German start-up Cliqz is to redesign the Internet for the user by combining the power of data, browser, and search. In Munich, over100 experts from more than 30 countries develop browsers and browser extensions with integrated search engines to bring users to their destination in the most direct way while protecting their privacy. Jean-Paul Schmetz founded Cliqz GmbH in 2008. Since May 2013, Cliqz GmbH has been majority-owned by Hubert Burda Media, one of Europe’s leading media and tech companies. In August 2016, Mozilla joined as a strategic minority investor. With Cliqz for Firefox launched in June 2014, the concept of searching quickly via the browser gained traction fast with more than a million daily active users in just a few months. The company then developed standalone a browser for all major platforms. Since 2016, the Cliqz browser with built-in quick search and anti-tracking now is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.