JS-Kit, a startup that develops a series of widgets that can be quickly integrated into websites, has raised $3.6 million in a Series B funding round led by Altos Ventures, with existing investor TEF3 also participating. The company says that it will use the funding to expand its team of engineers, along with the addition of DataPortability’s Chris Saad as Strategic Advisor.
JS-Kit’s repertoire of available widgets include a commenting system, ratings, and polls, all of which can be embedded on a webpage with short snippet of code. Earlier this year the company scrored a deal with WorldNow, a CMS provider for local news station affiliates. Over the summer JS-Kit acquired HaloScan, a competing commenting system, to improve its global profiles and better integrate with blog platforms.
So awesome! The team of at JS-Kit rocks!
For God’s sake they need a new logo.
Nice, perfect time to save some $$ for the future. Good Luck Guys.
Congratulations everybody at JS-Kit!
Great job Khris on the round and getting Chris on your team!
JS-Kit is a solid service. But I have a REAL hard time believing they need this kind of money to operate. I mean… wow.
Thanks everyone for your kind feedback. Lots of great potential for JS-Kit.
I’ve posted my personal thoughts here: http://chrissaa.../who-is-js-kit/
3 mill for javascript plugins? Geez, we’re not in a bubble are we?
I make cool widgets. Can I have a million?
A BIG thank you to everyone using our widgets — your support and encouragement made this event possible!
We will be using the funds *wisely* to growth the services, add key innovators to our team, and expand support.
The funding, along with our attention to the fundamentals of the business, ensure that we will be able to provide world class services to you for years to come.
Co-Founder, JS-Kit
JS-Kit.com looks and sounds like a japanese cat site. somebodies got some more explaining to do.
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We can’t explain anything to you ’cause you don’t understand the simplest things on the web. Come back when you get your GED.
Thats realy cool, do you know – head of JS-Kit is Russian
Thats awesome it shows that even a small company like that can get a good investment! Congratulation!
VC funding is still alive. Congrats!
js-kit, get a decent logo, PLEASE
3 million, did somebody miss the news about the financial markets collapse.
for $500,000 i could build what js-kit has, in < 30 days . . .any takers?
The difference between JS-KIT and all the other folks whining on the comments above is Khris and the folks at JS-KIT made it happen. Congrats and best of luck moving forward.
“A BIG thank you to everyone using our widgets — your support and encouragement made this event possible!”
Everything’s so serious, so important, such a challenge, opportunity, achievement, advance of mankind…
…except it’s widgets.
It’s supposed to be comedy, right?
It’s sad to see some lame javascript “widgets” get millions thrown after them, only to let them buy other overpriced javascript widget manufacturers.
And I forgot: “The funding, along with our attention to the fundamentals of the business, ensure that we will be able to provide world class services to you for years to come.”
They’ve got the corporate speak all figured out, too. GO JS-Widgets, CHANGE SOME PARADIGMS in the widget-business.
Congratulation guys, I know guys from JS-kits, worked with them some time ago, so it’s a very professional team and just good guys. Keep up good work.