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One Israeli creation for the weekend

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January 16, 2015

I’m sure most of you already know all about Wix, and probably even use the web-development platform. But did you know it’s an Israeli invention?


Wix is a cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites, through the use of their online drag and drop tools. With Wix, users can add functionalities such as social plug-ins, eCommerce, contact forms, email marketing, and community forums to their websites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications.


The very successful platform was founded in 2006 by Israelis Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan. By April 2010 Wix had 3.5 million users and raised $10 million. A year later, in March 2011, Wix had 8.5 million users and raised $40 million, bring its total funding to date to $61 million. Nowadays, the company’s net worth stands on about $115 million. As of August 2014, over 51 million users across 190 countries have used Wix to power their websites. On average, 45,000 new users are signing up every day.


Even though Wix is considered a huge success and operates through offices around the world, including San Francisco and New-York, the headquarters are still located in Tel-Aviv.

You can learn more about this Israeli invention