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JS-Kit Raises $3.6 Million Series B
JS-Kit is a blog enhancement and application company that has raised $3.6 million Series B. JS-Kit has built applications for threaded comments, ratings, reviews, polls, and navigation. The funding was led by Altos Ventures. JS-Kit raised $1.2 million in August 2007 from The Entrepreneurs’ Fund III.
Some of JS-Kit’s partners include Haloscan, Experian, Evite, The Next Web, Guy Kawasaki, InfoWorld, Brightcove, Jetblue Airways, ShareThis, I Can Has Cheez Burger. JS-Kit’s widgets are currently being run on 550,000 sites. Khris Loux stated that he received the funding by being featured on TheFunded.com.
Chris Saad, co-founder of the DataPortability Project, Media 2.0 Workgroup, and APML joined JS-Kit as Strategic Advisor. JS-Kit will be adding other team members shortly.
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Evite Relaunching Platform With JS-Kit Built-In
Evite is relaunching their platform to include some of JS-Kit’s features. Evite will be using JS-Kit’s commenting and poll system for event hosts to advance the way that hosts communicate with event invitees. JS-Kit will make Evite feel even more like a social network than before with the new features.
This new integration is in line with Evite’s plans to become more social network-like. Evite is rolling out photo sharing and stories after an event has occurred. Evite is the most well-known event invitation website. Evite receives about 15 million uniques per month, had 6 million parties planned per year, and had over 200 million invitations sent out over the last year. Evite competes directly with Facebook’s event management system.
JS-Kit recently acquired HaloScan, a comment service provider about 13 days ago. JS-Kit raised $1.2 million in Series A around August 2007 from The Entrepreneurs Fund III. JS-Kit is based in Hillsborough, CA. JS-Kit features are currently being used on over 500,000 sites.
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