Gigya Overview
Gigya is the leading widget and social technologies company, serving brand advertisers, media companies, and widget developers. Gigya’s content sharing and advertising platform helps publishers and advertisers increase reach and engagement, distributing widgets to any platform and providing both user social graphs and powerful social features to any website. Gigya serves the world's largest brands...More»
Gigya is the leading widget and social technologies company, serving brand advertisers, media companies, and widget developers. Gigya’s content sharing and advertising platform helps publishers and advertisers increase reach and engagement, distributing widgets to any platform and providing both user social graphs and powerful social features to any website. Gigya serves the world's largest brands with a full-service widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting, distribution, viral promotion, tracking and optimization. Gigya's Wildfire technology installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day and tracks billions of impressions per month. Gigya’s partners include EyeWonder, DoubleClick, Eyeblaster, Electronic Arts, RockYou!, Webshots, Snapvine and many others.«Less
Key People
Management
- Eyal Magen, Founder & CEO
- Ben Pashman, VP of Business Development
- Liza Hausman, VP Marketing
- Rooly Eliezerov, President
- Todd Sims, EVP Corporate & Business Development
- Raviv Pavel, VP R&D
- Patrick Salyer, Manager of Business Development
- Benjamin Pashman, VP Sales & Business Development
- Eran Kutner, CTO
Board of Directors
Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 02/2007 | Series A | 3M | Unknown | |
| 03/31/2008 | Series B | 9.5M | Unknown | |
| 10/2008 | Series C | 11M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | Gigya |
| Product URL: | http://www.gigya.com/ |
| Description: | Gigya provides a growing selection of tools that enable widget providers to distribute, track and monetize widgets. Its free Wildfire widget distribution platform boosts the sharing and posting of widgets via social networks, blogs and email. |
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Bulls vs. Bears (3)
| Bullish Opinions (3) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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They have an impressive set of partners |
bartos 08/02/2008 |
86% 7 votes 6 14% 1 |
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They're supposed to be the largest widget network - reaching >140 widget users |
keane 08/01/2008 |
86% 7 votes 6 14% 1 |
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There'll be growing demand for services to help monetize widgets |
william 06/07/2008 |
100% 8 votes 8 0% 0 |
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