industry internet founded 2006 ; 10 years ago 2006 founder avishai abrahami nadav abrahami giora kaplan headquarters tel aviv israel number of locations 12 2015 area served worldwide key people mark tluszcz chairman avishai abrahami ceo products wix stores wix bookings wix hotel wix restaurants wix music wix shoutout services website builder business management web hosting service revenue 203.52 million 2015 total assets 149.43 million 2015 number of employees 1400 2016 website wix.com wix.com headquarters in tel aviv port wix.com is a cloud based web development platform that allows users to create html5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of their online drag and drop tools . 1 users may add functionalities such as social plug ins e commerce contact forms e mail marketing and community forums to their web sites using a variety of wix developed and third party applications . 2 wix is built on a freemium business model earning its revenues through premium upgrades . users must purchase premium packages in order to connect their sites to their own domains remove wix ads add e commerce capabilities buy extra data storage and bandwidth and more . 3 4 contents 1 history 1.1 move to html5 1.2 ipo on nasdaq 2 features 2.1 wix app market 2.2 other services 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit wix was founded in 2006 by israelis avishai abrahami nadav abrahami and giora kaplan . the company headquartered in tel aviv with offices in san francisco new york city dnipropetrovsk and vilnius is backed by investors insight venture partners mangrove capital partners bessemer venture partners and benchmark capital . 5 6 the company entered an open beta phase in 2007 using a platform based on adobe flash . 7 by april 2010 wix had 3.5 million users and raised 10 million in series c funding provided by benchmark capital and existing investors bessemer venture partners and mangrove capital partners . 8 a year later in march 2011 wix had 8.5 million users and raised 40 million in series d funding bring its total funding to that date to 61 million . 9 in april 2014 wix announced its acquisition of appixia an israeli startup for creating native mcommerce apps . move to html5 edit in march 2012 wix launched a new html5 site builder replacing the adobe flash technology . existing sites built in flash continued to be supported but all new customers were directed to the new html5 platform . 10 in february 2013 wix reported that the move to html5 was highly successful helping to attract 25 million users and generating annual revenues of 60 million in 2012 . 11 not in citation given as of august 2013 the wix platform had more than 34 million registered users . 12 by august 2014 more than 51 million users throughout 190 countries have used wix with roughly 45 000 new users a day . 13 ipo on nasdaq edit on 5 november 2013 wix had an initial public offering on nasdaq raising about 127 million for the company and some share holders . 14 since its nasdaq debut wix has continued to spend heavily in r & d and marketing whilst growing its user base rapidly . citation needed features edit wix provides hundreds of customizable web site templates and a drag and a drop html5 web site builder that includes apps graphics image galleries fonts and more . users also may opt to create their web sites from scratch . wix has been called by many independent reviews as one of the best free website builders . in october 2013 wix introduced a mobile editor that allows users easy options to adjust their wix driven sites to mobile viewing . 15 wix app market edit on october 2012 wix launched an app market for users to sell applications built with the company s automated web development technology . wix s software development kit lets app developers create and offer web apps to the millions of wix users around the globe . 16 wix app market offers both free and subscription based applications with a revenue split of 70 percent for the developer and 30 percent for wix . 17 one of the first wix projects appeared on wix app market was wix hotels the online booking engine application . 18 the app market enables customers to integrate third party applications into their own web sites such as photograph feeds blogging music playlists online community e mail marketing and file management . 19 various applications are offered from providers such as google instagram livechat shopify and ecwid . 20 21 on may 15 2014 wix announced wixhive api which allows any installed wix app within a user web site to capture and share their visitor data such as contact information messages purchases bookings etc. with other installed apps within the same web site . by sharing data this gives wix users more actionable information about their visitor behavior and can help grow businesses . 22 other services edit in august 2014 wix launched wix hotels a booking system for hotels b & bs and vacation rentals which use wix websites . 23 this was followed in 2015 by wix music a platform for independent musicians to market and sell their music . 24 and wix restaurants in 2016 25 see also edit comparison of free web hosting services website builder references edit zukerman erez 9 april 2012 . create a website easily with wix . pcworld . retrieved 2014 01 17 . now at 25m users wix brings third party apps to its website builder with new marketplace . techcrunch . 16 october 2012 . retrieved 2014 01 17 . new options for building a free website . msn . 23 july 2013 . retrieved 29 july 2013 . business solution reviews . wix.com . retrieved 10 october 2013 . wix.com . linkedin . retrieved 12 november 2012 . vidra eze 28 march 2011 . israeli startup wix raises 40 million wants to become a large company in israel . vc cafe . retrieved 2014 01 17 . mccarthy caroline 13 october 2008 . site creator wix announces funding subscriptions . cnet . retrieved 2014 01 17 . investment of 10 million raised by wix for promotion of flash website software prweb april 2 2010 israeli startup wix raises 40 million wants to become a large company in israel eze vidra vccafe ; march 28 2011 wix launches a brand new html5 site builder as flash heads the way of the dodo harrison weber the next web 26 march 2012 israeli start up wix to make 75 million ipo in the u.s. inbal orpaz feb. 20 2013 haaretz shemer nadav 10 june 2013 . 6 israeli startups to watch as google reportedly buys waze for 1.3 billion . fast company . retrieved 29 july 2013 . wix about us . wix.com . wix.com . israeli start up wix raises 127m in nasdaq ipo financial times 6 november 2013 new mobile solution from wix . wix blog . barrett jeff 16 october 2012 . wix introduces game changing app market for web developers . the washington times . retrieved 2014 01 17 . wix.com launches apps market paul krill october 16 2012 computerworld comparison of wix and squarespace website builders . superbwebsitebuilders . retrieved 13 january 2016 . clancy heatjer 16 may 2013 . small business web host becomes google reseller . zdnet . retrieved 29 july 2013 . wix and shopify partner to launch new small business solution yahoo finance nov 19 2012 ecwid store builder available to wix.com s 35 million users reuters jun 25 2013 wixhive api . wix.com . retrieved 10 august 2014 . boutique hotels just got easier to book sara ashley o brien cnn money august 6 2014 wix targets indie musicians with wixmusic launch natalie gagliordi zdnet march 31 2015 wix.com launches wix restaurants bringing a true diy solution for online and mobile ordering to restaurants worldwide yahoo finance 31 march 2016 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wix.com & oldid 742253808 categories companies established in 2006free web hosting servicesinternet companies of israelweb hostingweb designweb development softwarecompanies listed on nasdaqcompanies based in tel avivhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with 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