{"id":197498,"date":"2010-01-19T05:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/19\/vanilla-forums-raises-500000-for-open-source-forum-software\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T05:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:08:51","slug":"vanilla-forums-raises-500000-for-open-source-forum-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197498","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Forums Raises $500,000 For Open-Source Forum Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vanilla Forums<\/a>, an open source community forum software technology, has raised a $500,000 (CAD) Series A funding. Vanilla Forums was a Techstars<\/a> summer 2009 company.<\/p>\n

The round was led by Montreal Startup<\/a>, with participation by eonBusiness<\/a>, Norseman Capital and Klein Venture Partners<\/a>. Vanilla Forums, a Montreal-based startup, will use the funds to expand its marketing, development, and sales efforts.<\/p>\n

Vanilla has also released its forum hosting platform and additional premium features. According to Vanilla Forums, their hosting platform enables customers to quickly and easily deploy a community forum solution without having to write a single line of code.<\/p>\n

Vanilla also released two new premium features, custom domains and ad-removal, with plans to release additional premium features including custom CSS, single sign-on, and forum analytics in the future.<\/p>\n

The company already has over 300,000 users, including companies like O’Reilly Media, Rackspace, Mozilla, and more.<\/p>\n

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