Jimdo

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Jimdo GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding February 2007
Seat Hamburg
management Matthias Henze
Christian Springub
Fridtjof Detzner
Number of employees 196 (December 2018)
sales 39.1 million euros (2018)
Branch Internet service
Website jimdo.com
As of December 31, 2018

Jimdo is a product of in Hamburg resident Jimdo GmbH, a provider of WYSIWYG - site construction sets and Internet services .

history

The company was founded in February 2007 by Matthias Henze, Christian Springub and Fridtjof Detzner.

In 2008 United Internet AG bought 30 percent of the shares in Jimdo GmbH, and the cooperation ended in 2009 after a share buyback . In 2010 Jimdo added the "Store" function, which made it possible for owners of a Jimdo website to set up an online shop . In September 2011 Jimdo entered into a cooperation with the telecommunications provider KDDI in Japan.

In addition to the Jimdo headquarters in Hamburg, there is another office in Tokyo , Japan . Since 2011 Jimdo has also had an office in San Francisco , USA.

The 5,000,000th Jimdo website went online in February 2012, and the 10,000,000th in November 2013. On February 3, 2014, Jimdo released a blog app that can also be used to blog from mobile devices on a Jimdo website.

In June 2015 it was announced that the American company Spectrum Equity has invested 25 million euros in Jimdo. The investor thus secured 26.7 percent of the company. For Jimdo this is the second time that risk capital has been raised in the financial market. At this point in time, 15,000,000 websites have already been created with Jimdo. At the end of July 2015, the website was modernized. In 2015, 200 people from 15 countries worked for the company.

In October 2016, the company had to lay off 66 of its 258 employees for economic reasons. The two co-founders Fridtjof Detzner and Christian Springub took a break and withdrew from active day-to-day business.

In the 2016 financial year, Jimdo achieved sales of 29.4 million euros.

In February 2017, the number of employees in the Jimdo offices in Hamburg, San Francisco and Tokyo was only 170. In 2017, Jimdo started an entrepreneurial competition to promote young talent. In the 2018 financial year, Jimdo achieved sales of 39.1 million euros, an increase of 9.4 percent compared to the previous year. In December 2018 the company had 196 employees.

In October 2019, the company renewed its branding . For this purpose, a new logo and new recurring company symbols were introduced as part of the corporate identity .

In November 2019, Jimdo deleted a reporting portal set up by several AfD members of the Bundestag with the name "Dropout program for mainstream journalists" from its servers. According to the company, this AfD website “violates our guidelines and our values”. On this platform, which was only online for one day, "anti-democratic action" was called, the company continued.

offer

Jimdo office in Hamburg

The web construction kit can only be used on Jimdo's servers. The basic version with 500 MB storage space called PLAY, in which users can only register a subdomain under .jimdofree.com , is free of charge, but does not include e-mail functions or the possibility of additional domains. Furthermore, several paid web hosting packages are included.

Jimdo also offers sales platforms (online shops) that can be rented in three size categories. A previously offered free online shop has not been provided since 2019.

Jimdo Dolphin was introduced in October 2017 . Dolphin is supposed to be faster and easier to use. The connection to social media is further simplified. A shop function as well as the migration of older homepages from the Jimdo Creator is not possible.

The software currently supports six languages ​​(as of November 2019).

Since the beginning of February 2014, the Jimdo web construction kit has also been offered as an app for Android and Apple iOS under this name , but not all editing functions are available to the user of the app and it is therefore only suitable for brief changes or improvements.

Since 2019, Jimdo has also been offering search engine optimization and logo design services .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jason Kincaid: Weebly Adds AdSense Support For Drag And Drop Cash. TechCrunch at The Washington Post , June 10, 2008, accessed January 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b " CeBIT 2009: Jimdo announces cooperation with 1 & 1. " PresseBox of March 3, 2009, accessed January 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Self-expression. Jimdo, accessed January 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ We were young and needed the money. Jimdo, accessed August 11, 2015 .
  5. ^ Elisabeth Neuhaus: How Jimdo freed himself from the clutches of an investor. Gründerszene, November 17, 2017, accessed on July 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Wauters, Robin. " Jimdo Makes Running Your Own Online Store A Breeze, Loses Investor ." TechCrunch at The Washington Post . Sunday February 28, 2010. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Toto, Serkan. "Via Local Telco KDDI: Website Builder Jimdo Lands Deal With Google In Japan" . TechCrunch.com . September 14, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  8. ↑ Information about team size and branches. Jimdo.com, accessed September 21, 2016 .
  9. ^ Elisabeth Oberndorfer: Jimdo: The German middle class in Silicon Valley. In: curved.de. March 20, 2014, accessed August 27, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Shortnews: Jimdo has 10 million websites. In: apfellike.com. APPLE LIKE, November 12, 2013, accessed January 13, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Jimdo brings investor Spectrum Equity on board. Website Tutor, accessed January 13, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Long-time Site Builder Jimdo Raises € 25M From Spectrum Equity To Scale Up. Jimdo, accessed August 29, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Mischa Täubner and Jens Umbach: Matzes Husarenstück.
  14. ↑ That's how Jimdo feels a year after the layoffs . In: Gründerszene Magazin . ( gruenderszene.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Gruenderszene.de: Jimdo fires a quarter of the employees. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
  16. ↑ "Hard decision" - Growing too fast: Jimdo fires 25% of its employees
  17. ↑ Jimdo GmbH annual financial statements for the business year from 01/01/2016 to 12/31/2016. Bundesanzeiger Verlag, April 2017, accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Only one of the three Jimdo founders remains (February 2, 2017)
  19. ↑ Start-up competition: How Jimdo wants to promote the next generation of founders . In: Murmann Magazin . May 21, 2017 ( murmann-magazin.de [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  20. ↑ Jimdo grows to 39.1 million sales (and makes profits again). In: deutsche-startups.de. March 12, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 (German).
  21. ↑ Provider deletes reporting portal from AfD members for journalists dpa report in the FAZ from November 28, 2019
  22. ↑ Jimdo Dolphin at a glance. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Jimdo Dolphin: the advantages and disadvantages of the intelligent website construction kit. Website tooltester, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Star from "How I met your Mother": Jimdo clones Neil Patrick Harris for worldwide TV campaign. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  25. ^ Winner of the Deutscher Gründerpreis , deutscher-gruenderpreis.de, accessed on January 12, 2016.