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Privately held companies | |
Fate | rebranded; original service shut down |
Successor | Flite |
Founded | 2006 |
Defunct | March 28, 2014 |
Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
Website | widgetbox.com |
Widgetbox was a San Francisco, California based company that enabled businesses to create and deliver applications to their customers. Widgetbox formally discontinued their service on March 28, 2014.
In February 2011, Widgetbox rebranded as Flite and focused on online and mobile advertising.
Widgetbox products included:
Enabled the user to build and distribute mobile web applications for iPhone and Android.
The user could develop and run rich-media ads.
Enable the user to aggregate content into a web widget.
Widgetbox was founded in 2006 by Ed Anuff, Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses. The company debuted the same year at DEMOfall 2006. Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners invested an undisclosed amount in the company in 2007.
A Series B round of funding was announced in January 2008, by Northgate Capital, Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, independent investor Michael Dearing, et al.