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JotSpot, Inc.

Product Name

JotSpot

Market Segment

Enterprise software

Funding

Series A: $5.2M, Redpoint Ventures, Mayfield Funds, Private investors, Joe Kraus, Graham Spencer

Competitors

Socialtext, Inc.

Product Description

JotSpot makes simple Web applications simple to build by combining wikis — websites that can be edited by anyone, without knowing HTML — and Web application building in an easy-to-use hosted service for workgroups. Commonly referred to as an “application wiki,” JotSpot enables companies

Market Opportunity

According to SourceForge, over the last three years there has been an upward trend of open source wiki downloads, starting with 3,000 downloads in May 2002 and climbing to 25,000 downloads in May 2004. Wikis are quickly finding their way into organizations from the bottom up because they offer small workgroups an easy and inexpensive tool for online collaboration. JotSpot furthers that opportunity by making simple applications simple to build within the wiki environment.

Demo Says

“JotSpot is to application development what the spreadsheet is to data management. By combining the communications structure of Wikis and the flexibility of Web services and hosting, JotSpot has created an extremely flexible, yet easily understandable framework that enables business people to create custom applications. In announcing general availability now, JotSpot shows the full capability of this rich environment.”