April 10th, 2013

Website Testing Service Optimizely Raises $28M Round Led By Benchmark, Plans Global Expansion

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Optimizely, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps companies A/B test different versions of their website, has raised $28 million in Series A funding.

That would be a sizable Series A for most startups, but it’s a particularly big step for Optimizely, which had only raised $3.2 million thus far. The last round was announced a year ago, but the company didn’t disclose the amount at the… → Read More

October 9th, 2012

The New King Of Web Optimization? Optimizely Has Run 100K A/B Tests On More Than 1B Visitors

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Optimizely co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker shared some big numbers today about the A/B testing service’s growth.

Let’s go with the biggest one first. Siroker says Optimizely, which makes it easy for websites to conduct tests to optimize their design and content, has now delivered those tests to 1,303,364,329 visitors around the Web. (He provided the number this afternoon, so those last few… → Read More

November 16th, 2010

Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels

Optimizely, a startup that makes it easy to run A/B tests on your website, has closed a $1.2 million funding round, with an impressive (and remarkably long) list of angel investors. The full list: Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Steve Chen, Paul Buchheit, Ashton Kutcher, Mitch Kapor, Chris Dixon, Joshua Schachter, Naval Ravikant, Ram Shriram, Ariel Poler, Aydin Senkut, Brian Sugar, Deep Nishar, Sam… → Read More

July 15th, 2010

YC-Funded Optimizely Makes It Remarkably Easy To Run A/B Tests On Your Website

If you’re running a website, you’ve probably heard of A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users. But there’s also a pretty good chance that you haven’t actually gotten around to running those A/B tests — the prospect can be daunting, and if you aren’t tech savvy, existing solutions can be confusing. Enter Optimizely→ Read More