Founded in 1990 by Lloyd Linn and Diane Rickert, two former contractors, Dice.com had 175 employees by April 2001. Today, DHI Group, Inc. has 500+ employees worldwide. Chris Benner, in his 2002 book
Work in the new economy: flexible labor markets in Silicon Valley, called Dice.com "[t]he most prominent site in the Silicon Valley high-tech recruiting industry". In October that same year, Dice.com moved operations to Urbandale, Iowa. In February 2003, Dice Inc. filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 to recapitalize, the reason behind was that "EarthWeb had issued a large amount of debt in 2000 that resulted in an unstable corporate structure." By the end of June 2003, Dice came out of bankruptcy eliminating a $69.4 million debt, and re-emerged as a private entity. In 2005, Dice Inc. was acquired by Dice Holdings, Inc. which is owned equally by private equity firms
General Atlantic LLC and
Quadrangle Group LLC. In 2007, Dice Holdings completed an initial public offering and its stock began trading on the
New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DHX. In 2015, parent company Dice Holdings changed its name to DHI Group, Inc. In mid-2017, following an attempt to sell the company to private investors, it was announced that most of the brands were being marketed for sale so the company can focus on growing the technology recruiting efforts of Dice and ClearanceJobs. ==Acquisitions by DHI Group, Inc==