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April 09, 2007

Open Source Content Management Ez Systems In $5M Deal

We had to do a double take this morning seeing that eZ Systems out of Norway had raised $5M from a local investor - as we have not seen a content management software deal in years. It is one of those Web categories that hasn't come back as an investment theme after the boom and bust.
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eZ is not a freshly baked startup though - it was formed in 1999 and has about 7 pages of reseller partners. Its software has been downloaded 2 million times and it recently added a search function for users (based on its own algorithm and tech) and a payment platform add on.

It's open source too. Its creators write:
we have based our business on Open Source software to serve two categories of users: those who want to spend time to save money and those who want to spend money to save time.

The funding is an expansion round and the founders remain majority shareholders.

Posted on April 9, 2007 12:27 PM | Posted to News And Updates | Permalink

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