Awareness, Inc.
Awareness, Inc. (formerly IUpload) provides an on-demand social media platform for enterprises to deploy Web 2.0 technologies. The Awareness platform incorporates blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, photos, videos, forums and discussion groups. Companies use the platform to create both public and internal online communities.
Customers include McDonald's, Kodak, The New York Times Co., Northwestern Mutual and Cannondale Bicycle Corp..
Awareness was originally founded as iUpload by Robin Hopper and David Carter. In July 2007 it changed its name to Awareness and received Series A venture capital funding in July 2007 from Greylock Venture and North Bridge Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Mass., with offices in Burlington Ontario, Canada.
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