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Livefyre

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Livefyre brings the social web experience to any publisher or brand site to drive real-time conversations and community engagement. Livefyre’s suite of real-time products drastically increases time spent on publisher content, participation, and return visits.

Livefyre products include its free community platform which replaces outdated commenting sections with real-time social conversations, and its enterprise solution StreamHub. Livefyre’s StreamHub allows site owners and editors to easily curate the entire social web and incorporate it into their site alongside their own original content.

The company also provides the most powerful Live Blog and Live Chat applications on the web to make both curated and original content interactive in real-time.

Livefyre customers include leading media companies such as The New York Times, News International, AOL Tech, FOX Entertainment, and NBC Universal.

Founded in 2009, Livefyre is based in San Francisco, California.

Recent Milestones

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  Livefyre — Livefyre Grows Executive Team as it Focuses on New Markets and Expanded Social Product Offerings (2/12/13)
  Posted 2/22/13 at 11:34am via prweb.com
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  Livefyre received $15M in Series C funding. (2/6/13)
  Posted 2/6/13 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Livefyre added Nick Cicero as Lead Social Strategist. (12/1/12)
  Posted 4/25/13 at 12:48am
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  Livefyre added Kevin Wong as User Experience Lead. (11/1/12)
  Posted 2/6/13 at 12:27pm
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  Livefyre — Launched StreamHub, the world's first Engagement Management System (9/10/12)
  Posted 9/12/12 at 7:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Livefyre added Meghan Krane as Director of Community. (6/18/12)
  Posted 6/20/12 at 9:26pm
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  Livefyre added David Rodriguez as Senior Vice President. (3/1/12)
  Posted 7/4/12 at 2:28pm
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  Livefyre added Kristin Hersant as VP of Marketing. (2/11/12)
  Posted 2/22/13 at 11:35am
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  Livefyre received $4.5M in Series B funding. (10/17/11)
  Posted 10/17/11 at 9:55pm via gigaom.com
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  Livefyre received $800k in Series A funding. (7/6/10)
  Posted 7/7/10 at 7:38pm via venturebeat.com
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  Livefyre added Nate Underwood as CTO. (10/11/00)
  Posted 11/12/12 at 11:32am
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  Livefyre added Jordan Kretchmer as CEO.
  Posted 12/7/09 at 9:14am

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Livefyre conversation stream
Uploaded: 7/6/10

Above: Livefyre Comments 3
Uploaded: 7/17/12

Sources

1. Livefyre raises $800K to break down comment silos (social.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Gigaom (gigaom.com) [edit]
3. Social Commenting Platform Livefyre Raises $15M To Scale Mobile Experiences, Moderating Features And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Livefyre Goes Beyond Comments with StreamHub — Liveblogging, Live Chatting, Social Widgets, And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Kristin Hersant Joins Livefyre as VP of Marketing to Strengthen the Company's Enterprise Leadership Position (prweb.com) [edit]