PBworks

PBworks
Company typePrivate
FoundedMay 30, 2005
HeadquartersSan Mateo, California, U.S.
Key people
David Weekly, Founder
Jim Groff, CEO[1]
ProductsA free/premium hosted workspace service which allows collaborative editing of pages and files
Number of employees
30
Websitewww.pbworks.com

PBworks (formerly PBwiki[2]) is a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE) system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethi[citation needed] and Nathan Schmidt, who joined shortly thereafter as co-founders. Based in San Mateo, California,[1] United States, the company operates on a freemium basis, offering basic features free of charge and more advanced features for a fee.[3]

PBworks' investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures[4] and the Seraph Group, as well as angel investors Ron Conway and Chris Yeh.[5]

  1. ^ a b "PBwiki taps new CEO". San Francisco Business Times. July 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  2. ^ "PBwiki Changes Name to PBworks". PRnewswire. Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  3. ^ Messinger, Leah (June 19, 2007). "Q&A: On Widgets and Avatars (Interview with David Feinleib of Mohr Davidow Ventures)". Red Herring. Archived from the original on October 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  4. ^ Wong, Nicole C. (July 2, 2007). "Young software developers eat, drink beer, talk code". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  5. ^ Kirkpatrick, Marshall (February 21, 2007). "PBWiki Raises 2m". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2008-10-09.