Episerver
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | Sweden (1994) |
| Headquarters | Nashua, NH USA and Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Products | Episerver Digital Experience Cloud |
| Parent | Insight Partners |
| Website | www |
Episerver is a software company offering web content management (WCM) (or CMS), digital commerce, and digital marketing through the Episerver Digital Experience Platform Cloud Service. In January 2021, Episerver announced they were rebranding as Optimizely, a company they acquired in October 2020.[1]
Episerver was founded in 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Mikael Runhem.[2] Then known as Elektropost Stockholm AB, the company focused on internet-based electronic mail. Elektropost Stockholm AB expanded to provide technology for building websites and introduced the first version of the EPiServer CMS platform in 1997. The first live installation of Episerver was at Scandinavian Leisure Group in the spring of 1998.[3]
In 2002, the first version of EPiServer CMS, based on Microsoft’s .NET Framework, EPiServer CMS 4.0, was launched. In 2006, Mikael Runhem changed the company’s name to EPiServer AB. In 2007, the second .NET-based version of EPiServer CMS was launched, version 5.[citation needed]
In 2010, the company was owned by a group of investors, including Amadeus Capital, Martin Bjäringer, Monterro Holdings, Northzone Ventures, Mikael Runhem and family and employees.[4] In November 2010, this group sold the company to IK Investment Partners.[5]