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Roll20 launched a crowdfunding campaign in the spring of 2012 and raised nearly $40,000 instead of its initial goal of $5,000. The surplus allowed the founders to move from a private project into public beta testing by September 2012.
By February 2022, CEO Ankit Lal reported that user numbers had doubled from five million to over ten million in just two years. The company grew from roughly 25 employees to nearly 60 staff members to handle the influx during this period.
July 2022 marked a significant shift when Roll20 announced a merger with OneBookShelf to form a new entity named Roll20, LLC. Steve Wieck joined the board as president while Ankit Lal remained chief executive officer to combine content libraries within the system.
February 2019 brought a significant security failure when TechCrunch reported that Roll20 databases were hacked alongside eight other companies. Over four million user records appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace following this breach.
Jacob Brogan reviewed Lost Mine of Phandelver for Slate in 2016 and concluded that despite technical hurdles like browser crashes, the platform captured the essence of dungeon delving better than any other system he had tried.