CloudCannon, a simple CMS for web designers and their clients aimed at offering simple visual editing without the need for an advanced technical skillset, is today launching globally from TechCrunch Disrupt: London’s Startup Alley. The company is also announcing $500,000 in new funding, and a partnership with domain name registry Rightside.
The additional capital comes from New Zealand investors Sam Morgan, Phil McCaw, Stephen Tindall, Simon Holdsworth and others, and arrives at a time when the company is seeing 18% month-over-month growth (as of January 2014). Today, CloudCannon tells TechCrunch, the company has grown its user base to over 1,110 cities across 120+ countries, though it declined to provide hard user numbers.
We first came across CloudCannon when the startup had rolled out its Dropbox integration, which lets you put your webdesign files into a Dropbox folder and then wait for CloudCannon to do the rest. (The service also supports uploads via FTP and drag-and-drop, but the support for Dropbox was definitely a cool trick).
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