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| Name | Country | Funding | Valuation | User base end of 2012 | User base end of 2013 | User base end of 2014 | User base end of 2015 | User base end of 2016 | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wix.com Our Review |
Israel / USA | $58.5M (Source: VB) | $750 million (Source: VB) | 25 million (Source: TC) | 42 million 789k paid users |
46 million | 72 million | 90 million (100m in Feb 2017). 2.5m premium subscriptions, 332k of them ecommerce | IPO in 2013 where they raised $127 million |
| Weebly.com Our Review |
USA | $35.7M (Source: Crunchbase) | $365 million (Source: TC) Weebly got acquired by Square in April 2018 | 15 million (Source: TC) | 20 million | 30 million | 40 million (Source: Weebly) | 625,000 paid users. | |
| Squarespace.com Our Review |
USA | $78.5M (Source: WSJ) | unknown | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed | 1 million (paid users) Source: Squarespace website | “Millions” according to Squarespace’s website | Squarespace only has paid plans. Founder Anthony Casalena said in 2012: “We have remained profitable since inception.” |
| Webs.com Our Review |
USA, Netherlands | $12M | $117M | 40 million (Source: Webs) | 55M | +55 million | +55 million (Source Webs) | Webs seems to have been loosing relevance ever since their acquisition by Vistaprint. By the time of the acquisition they had 100k paid users. | |
| Jimdo.com Our Review |
Germany | Undislosed amount from European Founders and one more Angel investor (Source: 3Founders). €25m from Spectrum Equity in June 2015. Revenue 2014: €17.63m, profit: €695k (Source: Deutsche Startups). | €100 million (Source: Gründerszene) | 5 million (Source: Jimdo) | 10 million (Source: Jimdo) | 15 million (Source: Jimdo) | 15 million (Source: Jimdo) | 15 million (20m in February 2017, Source: Jimdo). Among these are 200,000 web stores. | Jimdo famously refused an 8-figure investment. However, in 2015 they finally accepted a funding round of $25m. In 2016 they laid off a quarter of their staff. |
| Webnode.com Our Review |
Czech Republic | 1.2 million | unknown | 7.5 million (Source: Webnode | 15 million (Source: Webnode | 18 million | 22 million (Source: Webnode) | ||
| Duda Our Review |
USA | 18.6 million (Source: Crunchbase) | unknown | 9 million (Source: Dudamobile.com) | |||||
| 1&1 MyWebsite (1and1.com) Our Review |
Germany | Not possible to break it down to MyWebsite only. | 410,000 | 510,000 (Source: Annual Report – has been taken offline) | 520,000 (Source: Annual Report) | No new information available. | No new information available. | Paid accounts only. Because of the high marketing spend, MyWebsite has yet to generate a profit. | |
| Content Management AG (CM4all.com) Our Review |
Germany | 3 million (Source: CM4all). | 3 million (Source: CM4all). | 3 million (Source: CM4all). | Mainly a white label provider for companies like Strato and Telekom. Their own brand is called Web4Business. | ||||
| Yola.com Our Review |
USA | $25M (Source: Crunchbase) | unknown | 7 million (Source: Yola) | 8 million Source: Yola) | 9 million Source: Yola) | 10 million | Over 12 million (Source: Yola) | |
| Homestead.com (part of Endurance International Group) Our Review |
USA | 12M (Source: Homestead) | 12M | No new information available. | The company was acquired by Intuit in 2007 and later on sold to Endurance. Their user base remains flat, probably because it used to be a free product and now hardly adds any new users. | ||||
| Moonfruit.com (part of hibu) |
UK | 2.3M+ | $29M. They were acquired by hibu (Yell) in 2012 for £18m (Source: Wired) | 3 million (Source: Moonfruit | 5 million (Source: Moonfruit) | 5 million (Source: http://www.moonfruit.com/about) | 5 million | 5 million (Source: Moonfruit’s career page) | They claim to be the no. 1 hosted site builder in UK. |
| Basekit.com Our Review |
UK | $25M | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed | White label provider for companies like Host Europe and 123reg | |
| Webstarts.com | USA | 3.5 million (Source: Webstarts | 3.7 million | 3.8 million (Source: Webstarts) | |||||
| Voog.com (formerly Edicy) |
Estonia | $100K (Source: Crunchbase) | 500k (Source: Source) | No new information available. | |||||
| Ucoz.com | Russia | 1.2m (Source Ucoz.com) | 1.5 million | 1.5 million | 1.2 million (active websites according to Ucoz) |
Last updated: 21 Mar 2017
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