About Freewebs
Background
Freewebs is a global online community of web publishers. Since 2001, over 11 million websites have been created using our free, easy to use, and do-it-yourself Site Builder. According to comScore Media Metrix, Freewebs is among the top 150 most trafficked websites in the world. Our mission is to enable people everywhere to converge all of their site building, web publishing, and digital sharing needs into a single and unified "web presence."
What is a Web Presence?
We define a web presence as: "An individual's media, videos, pictures (mobile & otherwise), music & audio, websites, blogs, social network, emails, chat, etc. stored, published and accessible by internet enabled devices, anywhere in the world."
Pioneers in the Industry
Since 2001, Freewebs has been pioneering and defining the Web Presence space and our experience has been one of our competitive edges. We remain focused on generating the best possible experience for our users. Our in-house customer support staff allows us to closely interact with our users on a real time basis. In fact, many of our best product features have been the direct result of suggestions from our loyal members.
Live Free
Freewebs believes in empowering individuals and groups with the best technologies and services for free. Our "Live Free" mantra is not just a marketing gimmick but a deep and passionate corporate philosophy that drives us to excel on behalf of our incredible users. Freewebs believes that to live free, people have to be given the tools and technologies that have in the past been reserved for the few. By unleashing the leading technologies to the masses we believe we are spreading freedom and the freedom to express one's self in a powerful and dynamic way that can change lives.
The Growing Freewebs Family
Freewebs was founded in 2001 and bootstrapped with just a couple thousand dollars. In August 2006 Freewebs received its Series A funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. Phil Bronner, from Novak Biddle, and Arun Gupta, from Columbia Capital, joined the Board of Directors serving along side co-founder and CEO Haroon Mokhtarzada, President & COO Shervin Pishevar, and Bobby Yazdani, CEO of Saba Software.
Novak Biddle Venture Partners was established in 1997 to provide equity financing and assistance to the management of young information technology companies. NBVP is backed by a number of the country's most prestigious limited partners, and has over $350 million under management. While the firm focuses primarily on early stage opportunities, later stage companies and spin outs are also represented in their portfolio.
www.novakbiddle.com
Columbia Capital has been partnering with early-stage ventures to build communications and technology enterprises for more than twelve years. The firm has invested more than $700 million in leading communications and technology ventures. Their most recent private equity fund of $856 million was raised in August of 2000, bringing the total dollars under management to $1.4 billion.
www.colcap.com