Shareaholic offers a content discovery, amplification and engagement platform and a native advertisement suite for marketers and publishers. The platform increases native ad performance by leveraging influencers and evangelists and provides site owners with products to engage and grow online audiences, monetize traffic, and analyze how content is shared. The company intends to use the new funds to begin rolling out its suite for publishers. Shareaholic currently connects 420 million people with content and native ads. Founded in 2009 by Jay Meattle, the company is based in Boston, MA. It has raised $7.8M to date. Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides web browser extensions, open platform APIs, and a large network of content publishers to make content discovery and sharing simple for readers. The company offers tools that help publishers measure, analyze, and improve the effectiveness of their content to drive visibility, traffic, leads, and views. Shareaholic reports reaching over 270 million people across every continent each month. It grew from a "nights and weekends" project into a fast-growing, VC-backed company and describes itself as a leader in content discovery and sharing. The product set is focused on both reader-facing sharing experiences and publisher analytics and distribution. The company filed the financing with the SEC. Shareaholic builds a browser plugin and sharing tools that let users share content across multiple social and bookmarking services. The plugin installs in the browser toolbar and is compatible with IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari. The company also develops publisher sharing tools, including a WordPress plugin launched last year, and is releasing a Tumblr widget. Shareaholic reported reaching 250 million unique monthly visitors after 12 months of working with publishers. It has more than 2 million browser downloads (up from 1 million in 2009) and 1.4 million WordPress plugin installs. The company raised $1.9 million in funding from a group of investors. Shareaholic offers a browser toolbar plugin that lets users share sites and media to dozens of services (Facebook, Digg, Delicious, etc.) with a single click. The extension is compatible with every major browser, including IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari. Since launching less than two years ago the plugin has surpassed one million downloads. Shareaholic has been promoted by browser makers — it is a featured Firefox extension and Microsoft has distributed it preinstalled with some copies of Internet Explorer 8. The company has won Mozilla’s Extend Firefox contest and was featured in Microsoft’s IE8 keynote, reflecting notable early traction. Financially, Shareaholic recently closed a seed funding round and said the amount was “a few hundred thousand” dollars.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Oct 2014