| Total | $14M |
| Series A, 3/06 Bessemer Venture Partners Reid Hoffman | $4M |
| Series B, 12/06 Amazon | $10M |
Wikia provides both wiki creation software and wiki-based search services. The site uses the same wiki software application as Wikipedia called MediaWiki. Wikia is heavily promoting open-source search with their new wiki-based search project. They recently acquired Grub a web crawler and plan to open the code so users can edit and fine tune its results.
Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia founded Wikia. Wikia is independent of Wikipedia and uses a for-profit model with ad revenues. Its main competitors include Wetpaint, pbwiki, and Socialtext.
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