Socialtext

Socialtext
Company typePrivate
FoundedDecember 2002
Headquarters,
USA
Key people
  • Ross Mayfield (Founder)
  • Eugene Lee (CEO) until 2012
Websitewww.socialtext.com

Socialtext Incorporated was a company based in Palo Alto, California, that produced enterprise social software for companies. It offered an integrated suite of wiki tools and social software applications, including microblogging, user profiles, directories and other collaboration tools. They also maintained mobile apps for individual tools.

The company was founded by Ross Mayfield and Peter Kaminski in 2002. Its investors included the Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sapphire Ventures, and Bedford Funding. Their wiki and suite of tools, also called Socialtext, was open-sourced in 2006. As of 2019, a version of the suite was still available as a service of the Learning Technologies Group. However, upddates on social media ended on 2016.