| Acquired by | AFCV Holdings |
| Date | 2/11 |
| Website | answers.com |
| @answersdotcom | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 130 |
| Founded | 12/98 |
| Description | Information and answer service |
| WebCollage, 5/13 |
| TOTAL | $32.1M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $32.1M |
| Series A, 1/99 Mort Meyerson Mark Tebbe | $300k |
| Series B, 4/99 Ron Conway Bob Lessin John Sculley Jon Medved Michael Parekh | $1.36M |
| Series C, 9/99 Dawntreader Ventures Garage Technology Ventures Israel Seed Partners | $2.75M |
| Series D, 5/00 Flatiron Partners Goldman Sachs Highland Capital Partners | $28M |
| Angel, 1/08 Yossi Vardi | |
| Venture Round, 4/12 TA Associates | |
| DEBT TOTAL | $13M |
| Debt, 6/08 Redpoint Ventures | $13M |
Answers is the world’s leading Q&A resource, delivering trusted answers to all of your questions through web, mobile, and social channels. We organize the knowledge from our vast community of online experts, syndicated sites, and members’ social networks to connect you with the most relevant and trusted information.
One-third of all U.S. Internet users regularly visit Answers for information on virtually everything. Answers is home to a community of more than 250 million registered users and more than 60 million users per month on mobile devices.
Answers also provides powerful tools for brands and resellers to identify and engage with their top consumers and influencers. Answers Corporation is not only responsible for Answers.com, the industry’s top destination for Q&A content (source: Quantcast) but also Coupons by Answers which helps consumers find savings at their favorite retailers; ResellerRatings which allows users to share feedback on popular retailers; and Webcollage, the web’s leading SasS platform for managing and publishing rich product information the helps consumers make smarter decisions and helps brands increase consumer engagement.
For more information about Answers, please visit www.answers.com.
| Website | Answers.com |
| Blog | nostupidanswers.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | information-portal |
| Website | resellerratings.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | January 1, 1998 |
ResellerRatings is a place to compare prices, store ratings and reviews of online stores, deals and bargains.
Reseller Ratings was developed and launched by Scott Wainner while he was in high school. He later sold ResellerRatings to EarthWeb, then re-purchased it from Internet.com at a fraction of its cost since the site wasn’t successful under the new leadership.
In August 2012, ResellerRatings was acquired by Answers.com.
| Website | wikianswers.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | 2002 |
| Tags | wiki, questions, answers, qa, community |
WikiAnswers.com a wiki-based Q&A project powered by contributors from all walks of life. Anyone can ask, answer or edit questions, building a global Q&A database, covering all topics.
The basic philosophy is that everyone has knowledge or a passion to share, and everyone should have the chance to contribute that expertise to the world. On WikiAnswers.com, users can ask a question on any topic and get a cooperatively written, human-generated answer.
Like on Wikipedia, WikiAnswers.com users can harness the power of the wiki-model to improve content. Unlike Wikipedia, WikiAnswers.com is not an encyclopedia, it’s a question-and-answer system. Contributors are encouraged to add to and improve each other’s answers instead of asking and answering the same questions over and over again.
Contributors are encouraged to keep an eye out for vandals and spammers. There is also a team of over 500 volunteer Supervisors who are contributors especially dedicated to helping WikiAnswers.com Q&A grow in a collective and productive way.
