Vanilla Forums offers a cloud-based online community software platform that combines customer communities, Q&A, a knowledge base, and ideation. The product is designed to improve customer experience, drive brand loyalty, foster meaningful connections, and reduce support costs. The company said it will use the new funds to support growth and accelerate expansion into new markets. Vanilla was founded in 2009 and is led by CEO Luc Vezina. The investment amount was not disclosed in the article. The reported investor is Level Equity. Vanilla Forums operates Vanilla, an open source community forum software and a hosted forum platform that lets customers deploy community forums without writing code. The company has released two premium features—custom domains and ad-removal—to integrate with customers' web presence. It plans to add additional premium features including custom CSS, single sign-on, and forum analytics in the near future. Vanilla Forums is based in Montreal, Canada. The company closed a CAD$500,000 Series A and will use the funds to expand marketing, development and sales efforts. Investors in the round include Montreal Startup, eonBusiness, Klein Venture Partners and Norseman Capital.

Total raised

$0M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jan 2010