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Mzinga

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Mzinga brings white-label social networks to consumer research. Mzinga, which means “beehive” in Swahili, is actually the combination and rebranding of two existing companies: Knowledge Planet (Web-based corporate learning) and Shared Insights (Web communities).

Mzinga lets corporations create social networks for their most ardent customers or alumni and retirees. It offers a menu of social modules that companies can add to their sites, including blogs, wikis, surveys, polls, calendars, forums, tag clouds, file uploading tools, individual profile pages, group pages, and idea-management tools with Digg-like voting.

On March 3rd, 2008, Mzinga acquired Prospero also a white-label social network provider.

Milestones

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• Received $10M in Unattributed funding. (9/23/09)
  Posted 9/23/09 at 4:06pm
• Received $32.5M in Series D funding. (3/3/08)
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:18am
• Acquired Mzinga [Prospero Technologies]. (3/3/08)
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:19am
• Chip Matthes, SVP, Chief Social Media Architect added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Mike Merriman, Vice President, Services & Support added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Edward J. McGowan, Chief Technology Officer added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Timothy O'Toole, Chief Financial Officer added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Karen Leavitt, Chief Marketing Officer added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Dan Bruns, EVP, Social Media Solutions added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Barry Libert, CEO added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Rick Faulk, President & CEO added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Randy Saari, Sr. Vice President, Sales added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Russell “Rusty” Williams, SVP, Social Media Product Planning added.
  Posted 3/3/08 at 9:05am
• Patrick Moran, CMO added.
  Posted 7/5/09 at 10:55am

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Products

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KnowledgePlanet On-Demand Learning 2.0 Suite

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Traffic Analytics

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Sources

1. Mzinga gets $32 million, acquires Prospero (austin.bizjournals.com) [edit]
2. Mzinga Secures $32.5M in Funding to Solidify Business Social Media Leadership (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
3. Mzinga Completes $10 Million Financing to Fuel Growth (freshnews.com) [edit]