BaseKit

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BaseKit is a cloud-based online platform, that partners with hosting, telco and internet companies to reach small and medium-sized businesses, delivering websites that work on phone, tablets and web browsers.

Basekit works in partnership with over 100 of the world’s biggest domain and hosting companies including 123Reg, UK2 Group, Papaki and FastHosts. These partners offer Basekit’s solution as their website building tool. This provides a value-added service to all of their customers while enabling thousands of new businesses per month to build their online presence. Supported configurations include On-premise, SaaS, cPanel plugin and Parallels APS.

BaseKit is developed by BaseKit Platform Ltd. BaseKit Platform Ltd is based in the United Kingdom, with offices in Bristol and London, England. The company has also established local offices in Spain and São Paulo.[1]

History and development

Basekit was created by Welsh web designers Simon Best, Richard Best and Richard Healy.[2]

The company took off in September 2008 when Basekit was awarded £50,000 of seed funding by winning Seedcamp, the European-wide competition for early-stage companies.[3][4] Juan Lobato was one of the investors from Seedcamp and initially acted as an advisor to Basekit before being appointed full-time CEO in July 2009. Basekit raised a further £10 million in funding from leading European venture investors Eden Ventures, NESTA and Nauta Capita in 2011.[5]

In 2011, BaseKit software was selected as the engine behind Google's "India Get Your Business Online" initiative, which encourages local businesses to establish a website presence and get listed in Google Maps.

In 2014, Basekit secured a further £4.5m in investment from existing investors as well as The British Business Bank, through the Angel CoFund.[6] During the same year BaseKit also partnered with Google in their ‘Think Insights’ initiative,[7] encouraging small businesses to develop websites that are accessible across all devices.

The software

BaseKit’s editor allows for responsive websites that work on mobile, tablet and web browsers.

The design is available in the BaseKit’s editor for the user to add content by clicking and dragging 'widgets' from BaseKit's toolbox onto the page. The user can preview the site 'live' at any time from within the interface on their browser. Once satisfied with their design, the user can then 'publish' the site, enabling anyone with the URL to view the site.

Availability

BaseKit’s editor has been localised into 15 languages: English (British), English (US), Polish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Swedish, Russian, Serbian, Greek and Norwegian. It is available to end customers from over 100 hosting and telco providers worldwide.

Reception

BaseKit has received a variety of feedback from bloggers who have participated in the beta stage of development. AOL-owned blog Download Squad said "The interface is beautiful, like a marriage of everything good about Web 2.0. There is dragging and dropping, resizing, AJAX and widgets up the yin yang -- forms, date pickers, star ratings, imported Flickr and Twitter feeds -- it's all there." [8]

Blog site CMSish said: "It’s a nicely designed and well executed web app, sort of like Dreamweaver as a SaaS solution." [9]

Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive of NESTA said: "Digital technologies present a huge growth area for the UK economy. BaseKit’s technology makes rich website design simple and accessible to a much wider audience." [10]

Blog site killer startups said: "It makes creating a site as easy as moving the mouse across the screen." [11]

Investment

Key investors in BaseKit include Eden Ventures,[12] NESTA,[13] Seedcamp.[2][3] and The British Business Bank.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Startups, The. "BaseKit: Simon Best, Richard Best & Richard Healy". Startups. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Taken from http://www.basekit.com/about-us
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "2008". Seedcamp. 2013-09-15. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  4. ↑ "Early-stage European Startups Take Honours At Seedcamp". TechCrunch. 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  5. ↑ Basekit Your website, your way (2013-10-31). "Basekit". Edenventures.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  6. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/04/basekit/
  7. ↑ http://www.google.com/think/multiscreen/vendors.html
  8. ↑ Anthony, Sebastian (2010-02-09). "BaseKit is a web app that generates websites from Photoshop PSD files". Downloadsquad.com. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  9. ↑ "Stupid rocket science and BaseKit | CMSish". Cmsish.wordpress.com. 2010-01-28. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  10. ↑ http://www.nesta.org.uk/news_events/press_releases/assets/features/uk_tech_start-up_to_take_on_international_website_creation_market
  11. ↑ "BaseKit.com - Create A Site Without Being A Programmer | Visit basekit.com". Killerstartups.com. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  12. ↑ Basekit Your website, your way. "Basekit". Edenventures.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-31. 
  13. ↑ http://www.nesta.org.uk/investments/portfolio/ict_engineering_and_cleantech
  14. ↑ http://british-business-bank.co.uk/

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