Crowd Fusion
Encyclopedia
Crowd Fusion is an open source
content management system
created by Brian Alvey
and backed by prominent investors including Jonathan Miller and Marc Andreessen
. The publishing platform combines several popular applications - like blogging, wikis, tagging and workflow management - with some original concepts.
Founded in 2007, Crowd Fusion raised $3 million from Velocity Interactive Group, Greycroft Partners
and Marc Andreessen in July 2008. Velocity's Jon Miller and Greycroft's Ian Sigalow joined their board of directors. When Miller left Velocity to become the CEO of Digital Media at Newscorp, Velocity changed its name to Fuse Capital and Fuse's Mickie Rosen joined the board.
In September 2008, Crowd Fusion launched its first showcase site, Obsessable, covering consumer electronics. Their green news site Super Eco went live at the end of December.
The following September, Crowd Fusion presented at TechCrunch50 and announced that their framework and CMS were being released as an open source project and they are taking beta registrations in preparation for a full public rollout.
Currently Crowd Fusion is helping other publishers conquer their verticals by creating solutions for media companies, newspapers, magazines and advertisers in consumer categories like sports, finance, food, fashion, music, health, cars, entertainment and parenting.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
content management system
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
created by Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad, Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging...
and backed by prominent investors including Jonathan Miller and Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard...
. The publishing platform combines several popular applications - like blogging, wikis, tagging and workflow management - with some original concepts.
Founded in 2007, Crowd Fusion raised $3 million from Velocity Interactive Group, Greycroft Partners
Greycroft Partners
Greycroft Partners is a venture capital firm focused on investments in early stage companies primarily in the digital media sector. The firm raised its first fund with $75 million of investor commitments and has deployed that fund into 34 companies....
and Marc Andreessen in July 2008. Velocity's Jon Miller and Greycroft's Ian Sigalow joined their board of directors. When Miller left Velocity to become the CEO of Digital Media at Newscorp, Velocity changed its name to Fuse Capital and Fuse's Mickie Rosen joined the board.
In September 2008, Crowd Fusion launched its first showcase site, Obsessable, covering consumer electronics. Their green news site Super Eco went live at the end of December.
The following September, Crowd Fusion presented at TechCrunch50 and announced that their framework and CMS were being released as an open source project and they are taking beta registrations in preparation for a full public rollout.
Currently Crowd Fusion is helping other publishers conquer their verticals by creating solutions for media companies, newspapers, magazines and advertisers in consumer categories like sports, finance, food, fashion, music, health, cars, entertainment and parenting.