Grammarly
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Type of business | Corporation |
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Founded | July 1, 2009[1] |
Headquarters | San Francisco |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn |
Key people | Brad Hoover (CEO) |
Products | Online text editor with grammar checker, spell checker, and plagiarism detection |
Services | Proofreading |
URL | Grammarly.com |
Current status | Active |
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Grammarly is an English language writing-enhancement platform developed by Grammarly, Inc., and launched in 2009. Grammarly's proofreading and plagiarism-detection resources[3] check more than 250 grammar rules.[4][5][6]
History
The company was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn, in Kiev.[6][7] Brad Hoover, the company's chief executive officer, is an investor with a background in engineering who learned about Grammarly while searching for an automated proofreading tool for his own writing.[7]
Grammarly, Inc, has headquarters in San Francisco. An additional office is in Kiev.[7]
Recognition
In the 2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews, Grammarly won the TopTenReviews Gold Award, with a rating of 8.88. [3][8]
See also
References
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- ^ a b "Grammarly – Review". TopTenReviews. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
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