WIX, éditeur israélien de sites, lève 40 M$

[:fr]40 millions de $ ! La start-up israélienne Wix, spécialisée dans l’édition de sites web, a effectué une belle levée de fonds auprès des cabinets investissements Insight Venture Partners, DAG ventures, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners et Mangrove Capital Partners.

Wix.com, créée en 2006 et lancée en 2008, propose aux internautes de créer leurs sites Internet en Flash à partir d’une interface web grâce à un module « glisser-placer » plusieurs éléments. L’an passé, la société avait inscrit 9 millions d’utilisateurs et a permis de créer 8,5 millions de sites web. Elle affiche le nombre de  40 419 030 utilisateurs à ce jour.[:en]

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Israeli cloud-based website builder Wix has sold $127 million in shares in its initial public offering and is now trading on NASDAQ. “We’re outrageously happy and equally proud to announce that Wix just went public and is officially trading on NASDAQ! This is a huge milestone in Wix’s history and in our development from a fledgling start-up into a company servicing over 40 million registered users worldwide,” the company announced on its blog. Early last month, Wix filed with the US regulators to raise some $100 million in an initial public offering. Its initial public offering comprised 7,700,000 ordinary shares at a price to the public of $16.50 per share. Main shareholders before the IPO included venture capital funds Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital and Insight Venture Partners. Wix was founded in 2006 by Giora Kaplan, and brothers Nadav and Avishai Abrahami. The company has headquarters are in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, New York and Dnepropetrovsk.

http://israel21c.org/news/wix-raises-127-million-in-initial-public-offering/

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