Flywheel helps creatives do their best work through a series of well-designed products and resources, including its namesake product, a delightful Wordpress hosting platform, and Local by Flywheel, a fuss-free local development application. The company is laser-focused on crafting sleek and simple tools that allow users to quickly build, launch, and manage any (and all!) of their WordPress sites. From small agencies to giant clients, Flywheel products have helped over 100,000 people scale their business on the WordPress platform.
Location: United States, Nebraska, Omaha
Employees: 51-200
Phone: +1 402-235-6105
Total raised: $5.2M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | RosePaul V... | rosepaul.c... |
| - | Five Elms ... | fiveelms.c... |
| - | Nebraska A... | nebraskaan... |
| - | Saratoga I... | saratogain... |
| - | Ludlow Ven... | ludlowvent... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.04.2016 | - | $4M | - |
| 05.09.2014 | - | $1.2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
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| 17.06.2025 | WP Engine Celebrates 15 Years of Innovation | WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress®, celebrates its 15th anniversary, a milestone that marks the company’s evolution from a local startup in Austin to a global... |
| 13.01.2022 | HubSpot : 47 of the Best Affiliate Programs That Pay the Highest Commission | Every day, thousands of publishers benefit from a recurring cash inflow by partnering up with other companies via affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize your blog, especially when you don't sell products... |
| 06.11.2019 | 8 Best WordPress Hosting Solutions on the Market | If you’re like us you love WordPress. The open source platform has been around for about 15 years now and powers web platforms across the globe. WordPress is great, but if you really want to get the most out of the service you need to choos... |
| 25.06.2019 | Longtime Analyst Mark Mahaney: ‘The Bar Is Higher In the Public Markets:’ Term Sheet | ‘THE BAR IS HIGHER IN THE PUBLIC MARKETS’ We’re already halfway through the year, and a number of tech startups finally made their public market debut — Uber, Lyft, Zoom, Pinterest, PagerDuty, Beyond Meat, CrowdStrike, and most recently, Sl... |
| 24.06.2019 | WordPress management site WP Engine acquires Flywheel as it moves to a $1B valuation and IPO | WordPress now accounts for 34 percent of all websites globally, and today one of the key companies that helps handle the creation and management of some of those WP-hosted sites is getting a little bigger through some consolidation in the w... |
| 24.06.2019 | WP Engine Acquires Flywheel In Another Deal To Make Your WordPress Experience Better | 15 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Austin-based WP Engine, which focuses on hosting and powering WordPress sites, has acquired digital experience platform Flywheel to create a better workflow, digital experience, and creative process... |
| 05.04.2016 | Flywheel raises $4M for its designer-focused WordPress hosting platform | WordPress sites make up a massive chunk of the Internet, so it’s no surprise there are also plenty of services that specialize in hosting them. WordPress hosting and management service Flywheel, which focuses on designers and creative agenc... |
| 25.03.2015 | WP Engine Raises $23M To Continue Its International Expansion, Push For Enterprise Adoption | WP Engine, one of the leading managed WordPress platforms on the market, today announced that it has raised a $23 million follow-on funding round led by North Bridge Growth Equity. This brings the company’s total funding to date to $41.2 mi... |
| 05.09.2014 | Funding Daily: #Parkageddon | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Today’s funding deals: Pango Mobile Parking snare... |
| 05.09.2014 | Flywheel Raises $1.2M For Its Designer-Centric WordPress Hosting Platform | The open-source WordPress software runs a huge chunk of all of the sites on the Internet, so it’s no surprise that there’s also a massive ecosystem that has sprung up around the platform. These days, there’s a specialized WordPress service ... |
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