| Website | collectivex.com |
| Blog | blog.collectivex.com |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | 410.715.1400 |
| info@collectivex.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 5/06 |
| Seed | $1.2M |
CollectiveX is a borderline white label social network platform specifically focused on providing groups with a platform to manage communications. Groups that maintain a community on CollectiveX create what the company calls a “groupsite”, of which 14,000 have been created as of April 2008. Members of a CollectiveX group cannot friend each other (apparently, it is presumed that everyone within a group knows each other). Within the 14,000 groupsites, 80% are private groups (members can join via invite only) and 70% of groupsites are focused on professional purposes.
View a chart that we compiled in Summer 2007 that compares this company’s social networking product to others.
| Website | collectivex.com |
| Blog | blog.collectivex.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 14, 2007 |
| Tags | white-label-social-networking |
CollectiveX provides an impressively refined way for people to share information and content amongst a group within a controlled, social network environment. The main features of a CollectiveX site include a calendar, forum, and file area (for general uploads and photos in particular). These offerings are not extensive, but the mantra “quality over quantity” certainly applies.
Unique to CollectiveX is the ability of a network’s members to list personal objectives and to declare any “key connections” (read: relationships) they have with particular individuals. These features reinforce the feeling that groupsites are meant primarily for business professionals who are looking to network (in the business sense of the word) in addition to collaborating online with associates.
CollectiveX’s free package is supported by advertisements, and groupsite creators can pay to have ads removed as well. The company also seeks to maintain revenue streams via premium features and enterprise accounts. On the premium side, for payments of $9 per month admins can gain more control over group permissions, enhance network security with 128-bit SSL encryption, and increase storage capacity to 3 gigabytes. On the enterprise side, CollectiveX will “white label” your network, which basically entails just dropping your own graphic into the header and importing members from another user base.
