| Website | ning.com |
| Blog | blog.ning.com |
| @ning | |
| Category | Network/Hosting |
| Phone | 650-561-7100 |
| Employees | 125 |
| Founded | 10/04 |
| Description | Social network platform |
| Total | $119M |
| Series A, 2007 Marc Andreessen Reid Hoffman | |
| Series B, 2007 Marc Andreessen Reid Hoffman | |
| Series C, 7/07 Legg Mason | $44M |
| Series D, 4/08 Allen & Company | $60M |
| Series E, 7/09 Lightspeed Venture Partners | $15M |
Ning is the social platform for the world’s interests and passions online. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Ning offers an easy-to-use service that allows people to join and create Ning Networks. With more than 1.6 million Ning Networks created and 36 million registered users, millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions, and meet new people around shared pursuits. Founders Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini created the company (formerly known as 24 Hour Laundry / 24H Laundry) in October 2004.
Their business model is based on delivering Google ads (their own ad platform in development) as well as selling premium services to individual Ning Networks, such as the ability to remove Ning’s ads and run their own, and a way to use a custom domain name.
View a chart that TechCrunch compiled in Summer 2007 that compares this company’s social networking product to others.
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning, gives a demonstration of Ning’s service to Robert Scoble
Added: 2/8/08Gina Bianchini, gives a run down of Ning.com and its features
Added: 3/1/08This video was originally published on Beet.TV
Added: 9/25/08