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Wix.com

Israeli online services company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ420506 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wix.com Ltd. (Hebrew: ווִיקס.קוֹם, romanized: wix.com), or simply Wix, is an Israeli software company, publicly listed in the US, that provides cloud-based web development services. It offers tools for creating HTML5 websites for desktop and mobile platforms using online drag-and-drop editing. Along with its headquarters and other offices in Israel, Wix also has offices in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, the United States, Ukraine, and Singapore.

Users can add applications for social media, e-commerce, online marketing, contact forms, email marketing, and community forums to their websites. The Wix website builder is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenues through premium upgrades. According to W3Techs, a technology survey website, Wix was used by 2.5% of websites as of September 2023; at the end of May 2025, it was 3.8%.

History

Corporate affairs

Wix was founded in 2006 by Israeli developers Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan. With its main offices in Tel Aviv, Wix was backed by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, DAG Ventures, and Benchmark Capital.

By April 2010, Wix had 3.5 million users and raised US$10 million in Series C funding provided by Benchmark Capital and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Wix.com” is israeli online services company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Israeli, online and services, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2025, 2006, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. For this dossier, Israeli, online and services is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “israeli online services company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q420506. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2025, 2006 and 2010.

Critical limits

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wix.com”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wix.com primary sources, Wix.com archive and Israeli research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wix.com”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wix.com” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.