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Websiteyola.com
Blogblog.yola.com
Twitter@yola
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone4152270250
Email
Employees70
Founded3/03
DescriptionFree Websites

Offices

Yola San Francisco
394 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA, 94111
USA
Cape Town Office
35 Hope Street
3rd Floor
Cape Town, 8000, ZAF

People

Co-Founder & Lead AJAX Engineer
Founder, CTO
CEO
VP of Business Development
Board of Directors
Investor
Systems and Services Engineer
Co-Founder & Lead Java Engineer
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Former People

Online Marketing Manager
VP of Marketing
Vice President - Strategy
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Acquisitions

Clickpass, 12/08

Funding

TOTAL $25M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $25M
Series A, 11/07
Columbus Venture Capital
$5M
Series B, 2/09
Reinet Fund
$20M

Competitors

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Yola

Yola (formerly known as Synthasite) is a browser based Ajax website creator with an extra collaboration enabling feature. It is a mix between a wiki creators like PBwiki and MindTouch and website creators Weebly, Sampa and SiteKreator. Yola lets you create your own website with WYSIWYG editing and drag and drop multimedia features. It offers a “digg this” button for your articles and videos, a flickr search button and a YouTube embedder. There are also drag and drop HTML and plain text fields, labels and images. Yola also offers file management, component libraries, template libraries and hosting. The collaborative elements to come will feature chat capabilities, shared page editing, invitations and shared components with the larger community in addition to admins.

Milestones

Videos

Above:

interview with Vinny Lingham - Yola’s creator

Added: 6/23/09

Screenshots

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Above: Yola Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 6/23/09
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Above: Yola homepage refresh (March 2010)
Uploaded: 5/25/10

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Sources

  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. techcrunch.com [edit]
  3. SynthaSite Gets A $20 Million Boost For Simple Website Creation Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. SynthaSite raises $20m (vinnylingham.com) [edit]
    SynthaSite Rebrands As Yola For Global Appeal (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
    SynthaSite Rebrands As Yola For Global Appeal (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
    Free website builders Yola and Weebly hit 2M users (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
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