| Website | vanillaforums.com |
| Category | Network/Hosting |
| Employees | |
| Description | Open-Source Forum Hosting |
| Total | C$518k |
| Seed, 8/09 TechStars | C$18k |
| Series A, 1/10 Klein Venture Partners Montreal Start Up eonBusiness Venture Capital Norseman Capital | C$500k |
Vanilla is a open-source forum hosting application that is fully customizable. Vanilla has a business model similar to Wordpress. They have vanillaforums.org for open source, free download/use, and vanillaforums.com as a hosted service, but with up-sells for things like domain name mapping, removal of ads, and single sign-on integrations.
Vanilla was a Techstars 2009 company.