January 13th, 2010

AboutUs Buys Jyte, Aims To Spread The Cred Even More

AboutUs, the wiki for anything that has its own website, has snapped up a tiny startup called Jyte, the company announced in a blog post moments ago.

The terms weren’t disclosed, but you don’t need to consult any wikis to realize this is likely a very small deal.

AboutUs is just getting started, having raised a relatively small amount of venture capital (most recently $2.5 million from Voyager→ Read More

January 9th, 2009

Wiki Service AboutUs Secures $2.5 million From Voyager Capital

Portland-based AboutUs has secured a $2.5 million round of financing from Voyager Capital with the VC firm’s managing director Erik Benson joining its board, reports TechFlash. The company operates a wiki for information primarily about small businesses, organizations, and ‘anything that has a website’. Yes, that includes TechCrunch.

This is different from our own wiki Crunchbase, which featured… → Read More

November 14th, 2006

AboutUs: A Wiki About Every Website

Portland, Oregon based AboutUs announced this week that it has closed a Series A round of funding and raised $1 million. The site is a wiki directory of web sites, mostly populated automatically but with a healthy amount of traffic and a growing number of edits being made daily. If you look up your website on AboutUs, you’ll probably find an entry there. I expect most people who aren’t… → Read More