In July 2018, Fandom purchased Screen Junkies from Defy Media, and in December of that year, they had acquired the media assets of Curse LLC, including wiki services Gamepedia, D&D Beyond, Futhead, Muthead, and Straw Poll. Miller was named Co-chairman of Wikia, Inc., alongside Jimmy Wales, and TPG Capital director Andrew Doyle assumed the role of interim CEO. In February 2018, former AOL CEO Jon Miller, backed by Private equity firm TPG Capital, acquired Fandom. In December 2015, Wikia launched the Fan Contributor Program. On March 4, 2015, Wikia appointed Walker Jacobs, former executive vice-president of Turner Broadcasting System, to the new position of chief operating officer. The total raised at this point was $39.8 million.
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Another $15 million was raised in August 2014 for Series D funding, with investors Digital Garage, Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Institutional Venture Partners. At the end of November 2012, Wikia raised $10.8 million in Series C funding from Institutional Venture Partners and previous investors Bessemer Ventures Partners and. In February 2012, co-founder Beesley Starling left Wikia to launch a startup called. In October 2011, Craig Palmer, the former CEO of Gracenote, replaced Penchina as CEO. 2010–2015: New managementīy 2010, wikis could be created in 188 different languages. The material has also been described as informal, and often bordering on entertainment, allowing the importing of maps, YouTube videos, and other non-traditional wiki material. Gil Penchina described Wikia early on as "the rest of the library and magazine rack" to Wikipedia's encyclopedia. Over time, Wikia has incorporated formerly independent wikis such as LyricWiki, Nukapedia, Uncyclopedia, and WoWWiki. īy September 2006, it had approximately 1,500 wikis in 48 languages. Nine months later, invested $10 million in Series B funding.
In the month before the move, Wikia announced a US$4 million venture capital investment from Bessemer Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The name of the project was changed to Wikia on March 27, 2006.
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įandom uses MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia. Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Capital and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co. until 2019), a for-profit Delaware company founded in October 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities before 2007 and later Wikia) is a wiki hosting service which hosts wikis mainly on entertainment (i.e.
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