Kudoboard, Inc is a Denver, Colorado-based employee recognition platform and e-card company. The company provides online group cards and employee engagement solutions to individuals and businesses.

Kudoboard was co-founded in 2015 by Aaron Rubens and Kyler Deutmeyer. The company raised initial seed funding from The Idea Village.^[1], and received an investment from Peakspan Capital in 2021.^[2]

Rubens developed the idea for Kudoboard while working as an educator in the Teach for America program ^[3]. Teaching an entrepreneurship class, he had students write notes about each other and pass it around to classmates. ^[4] Later that year, Rubens worked with Deutmeyer to translate that experience to a cloud-based format.

Rubens serves as CEO with Deutmeyer as CTO ^[5]. As of 2024, the company has had more than 1 million boards created and over 10 million users across 200 countries^[6].

In 2018, the company acquired groupcard.com, an early pioneer in the online greeting card space.^[7]

In 2023, the company acquired Illumenotes.com, a corporate group card and gifting platform.^[8]

In 2023, the Carter Center used the platform to collect thousands of messages celebrating the 98th birthday of Jimmy Carter, 35th president of the United States ^[9]

The company launched the Employee Happiness Trends In The US report in 2023^[10]