Total	$14M
Series A, 3/06 Bessemer Venture Partners Reid Hoffman Mitch Kapor Gil Penchina Joi Ito Dan Gillmor First Round Capital Steamboat Ventures Omidyar Network	$4M
Series B, 12/06 Amazon	$10M

Competitors
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Wetpaint, PBworks, Topicle, Mahalo

Tags
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wikia, wiki, techcrunch, crunchbase, wikibasedsearch, search

Wikia
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Wikia provides hosting, support, and development for wiki-based communities. The Wikia Gaming Network maintains many of the largest gaming wikis, including WoWWiki, the World of Warcraft wiki with more than 75,000 articles. Wikia also hosts Wikianswers, a collaborate question and answer site.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, founded Wikia with Angela Beesley. Wikia is independent of Wikipedia and uses a for-profit model with ad revenues. Its main competitors include Wetpaint, pbworks, and Socialtext.

The site uses the same wiki software application as Wikipedia called MediaWiki.

Milestones
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Wikia acquired Lyric Wiki. (2009)

Posted 10/20/09 at 3:49am
Wikia added Christian Williams as Engineering Manager. (7/11/07)

Posted 11/30/09 at 10:59pm
Wikia received $10M in Series B funding. (12/1/06)

Posted 7/30/07 at 10:51pm
Wikia received $4M in Series A funding. (3/1/06)

Posted 7/30/07 at 10:27pm
Wikia added Jimmy Wales as Co-Founder.

Posted 7/30/07 at 10:23pm
Wikia added Artur Bergman as SVP Engineering & Operations.

Posted 10/22/09 at 11:49am
Wikia added Gil Penchina as CEO.

Posted 7/30/07 at 10:22pm
Wikia added Joi Ito as Angel Investor.

Posted 2/18/08 at 5:40pm
Wikia added Reid Hoffman as Angel Investor.

Posted 10/25/08 at 11:12am
Wikia added Angela Beesley as Co-Founder.

Posted 7/30/07 at 10:25pm