| Website | vanillaforums.com |
| Category | Network/Hosting |
| Employees | |
| Description | Open-Source Forum Hosting |
| Seed, 8/09 TechStars | $18k |
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.