| Website | yola.com |
| Blog | blog.yola.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 45 |
| Founded | 3/03 |
| Description | Ajax design specialist |
| Clickpass, 12/08 |
| Total | $25M |
| Series A, 11/07 Columbus Venture Capital | $5M |
| Series B, 2/09 Reinet Fund | $20M |
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.
interview with Vinny Lingham - Yola’s creator
Added: 6/23/09
