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īy August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital, and the Digital Currency Group. and registered in California, where it is headquartered. Originally incorporated in Delaware as Hyperware Labs, Inc in 2015, the company later changed its name to Brave Software, Inc. Business modelīrave uses its Basic Attention Token (BAT) to drive revenue. Brave 1.0 was made available for Android, iOS, Windows 10, macOS, and Linux, and integrated "almost all of Brave's marquee features across all platforms," according to engadget. At the time, it had approximately 3 million active users on a daily basis. īrave launched its stable release version 1.0 on 13 November 2019 while having 8.7 million monthly active users overall. The new algorithm is inspired by the uBlock Origin and Ghostery algorithms. In June 2019 Brave started testing a new ad-blocking rule matching algorithm, implemented in Rust, that Brave claims is on average 69 times faster than the previous implementation in C++.
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The final Muon-based version was released with the intention that it would stop working and instruct users to update as its end of life approached. Nevertheless, Brave developers moved to Chromium, citing a need to ease their maintenance burden. Until December 2018, Brave ran on a fork of Electron called Muon which was marketed as a "more secure fork". Later that month, Brave added support for Tor in its desktop browser's private browsing mode.
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Brave announced that expanded trials would follow. This version of Brave was preloaded with approximately 250 ads, and sent a detailed log of the user's browsing activity to Brave for the short-term purpose of testing this functionality. In June 2018, Brave released a pay-to-surf test version of the browser.
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On 20 January 2016, Brave Software launched the first version of Brave with an ad-blocking feature, and announced plans for a privacy-respecting ad feature and a revenue sharing program. Brave is developed by Brave Software, which was founded on by CEO Brendan Eich (creator of Javascript and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation) and CTO Brian Bondy.