Provider of Web 2.0 Site Builder Site9 Secures $1.1M Funding

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006; 03:33 AM

Site9, Inc., whose software tools allow companies to develop and launch next-generation web sites, announced it has received $1.1 million in venture capital funding led by Mount Hood Equity Partners of Lake Oswego, Oregon. The funding enables Site9 to further develop its software and market it to interactive, advertising and web development agencies.

"This capital will help us get our incredibly efficient web development tools into the hands of more companies," said Don Carter, president and CEO of Site9. "We're very excited to show advertising and interactive agencies how easy they can quickly build very complex web sites for their clients. And their clients will love how they'll keep the sites updated without the headaches typically associated with content-rich sites."

Site9's software lets a company build a dynamic web site from scratch without templates or take an existing site and automatically integrate it onto the Site9 platform. On the Site9 technology platform, features are easily added and content management tools are included. Next-generation features like social networking, podcasting, video-on-demand, RSS feeds, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) interfaces, and blogs are integrated into the tool, so adding them to a site is easy. Furthermore, changes are automatically made across multiple pages that are optimized for search engines.

Founded in 1998 by web developers and programmers, Site9, Inc, has evolved into an early-stage software company that is creating a new technology and development platform for designing, deploying and managing next generation websites.