The total raised at this point was $39.8 million. Another $15 million was raised in August 2014 for Series D funding, with investors Digital Garage, Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Institutional Venture Partners. At the end of November 2012, it was announced that Wikia had raised another US$10.8 million in Series C funding from Institutional Venture Partners and previous investors Bessemer Ventures Partners and. On February 8, 2012, co-founder Beesley Starling announced she was leaving Wikia to launch a startup called. In October 2011, Wikia announced that Craig Palmer, the former CEO of Gracenote, would replace Penchina as CEO. 2010–2015: New managementīy 2010, wikis could be created in 188 different languages. The material has also been described as informal, and often bordering on entertainment, allowing the importing of maps, YouTube videos, and other non-traditional wiki material. Gil Penchina described Wikia early on as "the rest of the library and magazine rack" to Wikipedia's encyclopedia. Over time, Wikia has incorporated formerly independent wikis such as LyricWiki, Nukapedia, Uncyclopedia, and WoWWiki. īy September 2006, it had approximately 1,500 wikis in 48 languages. Nine months later, invested US$10 million in Series B funding. In the month before the move, Wikia announced a US$4 million venture capital investment from Bessemer Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The name of the project was changed to Wikia on March 27, 2006. 1.4 2018–present: New acquisitions and inclusivityįandom was launched on October 18, 2004, at 23:50:49 (UTC) under the name Wikicities (which invited comparisons to Yahoo's GeoCities), by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling-respectively Chairman Emeritus and Advisory Board member of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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