History
David Rusenko, Chris Fanini, and Dan Veltri co-founded Weebly in 2006. Rusenko and Fanini both attended the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, while Dan attended the Smeal College of Business, also at Penn State. The three founders were all 22-year-old students at Penn State when they opened the company. At the time, Penn State required all students to have a Web portfolio. They built on this idea and created software that made it easy for anyone to build a personal site.
Development of Weebly began in January 2006. Weebly announced its invitational beta release in June 2006. The official private-beta launched in September 2006.
In January 2007, Weebly was selected for Y Combinator’s winter start-up program in Silicon Valley, California. This is also when Rusenko, Veltri and Fanini began working on Weebly full-time. In March 2007, Weebly re-launched with its characteristic “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” editing interface. Also in 2007, Weebly raised a $650,000 financing round from several angel investors, including Ron Conway, Steve Anderson, Mike Maples, and Paul Buchheit.
In 2008, Weebly added Pro accounts and Google AdSense monetization features. The website also added compatibility with Google Chrome and Safari. Also in 2008, Weebly reached 1,000,000 users and released a statement announcing that it had become profitable. During its initial start-up years, Weebly received criticism for its lack of CSS/HTML editing support. In 2009, it added this functionality.
In 2011, Weebly raised a growth-stage round from Sequoia Capital, and added Roelof Botha to its Board of Directors.
Weebly claims to have over 12 million users.
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