Fixya

http://www.fixya.com/

Last activity: 05.10.2015

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With over 30 million members & over 20 million products covering 1500 categories, Fixya is the easiest way to find quick answers to any product questions.

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12.25K

Followers

1.23K

Website visits

1.7M /mo.

Mentions

Overview

Location

United States, California, Princeton-by-the-Sea

Employees

51-200

Total raised

$6M

Founded date

2005

Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 27

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May 7, 2014	Smartwatches are not so smart after all -- the top problems users consistently face	Love them or hate them, wearables are the future. Although right now the technology seems mostly limited to smartwatches. Take a look at Amazon’s new wearable tech store, and it’s clear watches (and fitness bands) are by far the most popula...
Apr 24, 2014	Fixit Site Fixya Launches Services For Small Businesses And Companies	Fixya, the site that gives do-it-yourselfers tips for fixing broken stuff, is launching a new service aimed at connecting local repair shops and service providers with people in need of assistance. “We created this program as more of a funn...
Mar 14, 2014	Fixya reveals top problems affecting Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U consoles	Games consoles, like any complicated piece of hardware, can go wrong in myriad ways, and usually at the most inappropriate moment -- when your wife’s out for the evening and you’ve got a freshly purchased copy of Titanfall, and a group of t...
Nov 26, 2013	Your smartphone buying guide for this holiday season	New Fixya report outlines biggest problems with four of the most popular phones, including iPhone 5s The holiday season is right around the corner, and presumably many parents will be heading out soon to pick up the right smartphone for the...
May 16, 2013	FixYa’s New FixBoard Allows Companies To Track Customer Support Trends	FixYa, a Q&A site where consumers can seek advice from product experts, is launching a new feature today called the FixBoard, which should make the site more useful to big consumer brands. As the name suggests, the FixBoard is basically...
Feb 22, 2013	Apple’s iPhone Tops Smartphone Reliability Ratings	A brand new smartphone is a thing of beauty. It is shiny and responsive, a blank slate that can be filled with apps and widgets and fun. The battery still works, you can hear people on the other end of a phone call and the interface is zipp...
Feb 22, 2013	iPhones are 3X more reliable than Samsung smartphones, FixYa says	iPhone users might occasionally complain about battery life and Apple’s slowness to add new features or enable complete customizability. But according to FixYa, Apple smartphones are the best-performing devices on the market: three times mo...
Feb 22, 2013	iPhones are 3X more reliable than Samsung smartphones, FixYa says	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. iPhone users might occasionally complain about battery life and Apple’s slowness to add new features or enable complete customizability...
Nov 27, 2012	What’s Bugging Online Storage Users? It’s Not Always What You Think	While people who use Dropbox and Box worry about security, users of services like Google Drive and Apple’s iCloud seem more concerned with implementation issues. Is that a sign of dangerous complacency, or is it only natural that the level ...
Sep 27, 2012	FixYa debuts video-based app for iPhone	Users can take video, upload it directly to FixYa and get immediate help If there is one thing that is universal, no matter who you are, you’ve had an appliance break down at some point in your life. And, most likely, you had no idea how to...
Sep 27, 2012	Troubleshooting Q&A Platform FixYa’s New iOS App Allows You To Record And Post Videos Of Product Issues	FixYa, the Q&A site for products where where amateur product experts give repair advice to consumers, is debuting a new app today that allows people to shoot a video of a product problem with their iPhone and get a real product fix from...
Jul 18, 2012	Raj Kapoor to depart from Mayfield, announces plans for new model accelerator (updated)	(Updated with quotes from Raj Kapoor) Raj Kapoor, Mayfield Fund‘s managing director, will leave the Menlo Park venture capital firm as a full-time partner after seven years, to develop a new accelerator program for early-stage startups. Hou...
Jul 8, 2012	FixYa identifies top five issues with major phones	Almost every phone has problems with battery; camera button, connectivity also common If you’ve got a smartphone, chances are you’ve got a laundry list of complaints, no matter which one you’ve got. Either the battery is terrible, or the sc...
Mar 21, 2012	Why Streaming Web TV Boxes Aren’t Ready For Prime Time	The Internet is awesome. Whether for its uncanny knack for revolutionizing aspects of our day-to-day lives and upending industries to way it has redefined how and when we get amused, you’ve got to love this globe-spanning network of informa...
Feb 21, 2012	What People Hate About Their iPads and Kindle Fires	People love their tablets. The devices have only been a hot consumer gadget for about three years, but already they’ve changed so much about how people read, browse the Web, watch video and get work done. Apple still leads the pack, having ...
Jan 18, 2012	iPad Is The Least Problematic Tablet Says FixYa, The Tech Q&A Site	FixYa, a product Q&A site, took a look at its own holiday stats to collect some facts about many major cell phones and tablets including iOS and Android devices. The conclusion? iPhone owners tend to be most interested in fixing battery...
Dec 20, 2011	FixYa Upgrades Its Q&A Service For Product Issues With Gamification And Some Realtime Data-Sharing	We first covered FixYa, the Q&A site for products, back in 2007, after the startup demoed at the TechCrunch40 DemoPit. Over the course of the next year, FixYa went on to raise $8 million in two rounds from Mayfield Fund and Pitango Vent...
Jan 21, 2010	Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Israel	Israel isn’t just an emerging tech hub, it’s a hotbed of activity and has been for many years. Per capita, Israel has the most startup companies and spends more on research and development than any other nation in the world. Israelis lay cl...
Dec 24, 2009	5 Sites to Help You Set Up Your New Gadgets	It’s been almost a year since I last worked with DIY repair site FixYa but I still remember the traffic spike we’d see every Christmas. While families would be thrilled to unwrap smart phones, netbooks and flat screen monitors in the early ...
Oct 30, 2009	Customer Service Tips for Early Stage Startups	Few companies put as much effort into customer service as they do into member acquisition. However, in order to retain members, community-driven startups need to be conscious of the entire customer experience. No stranger to support techniq...
May 1, 2009	Fixya Adds Product Recommendations, And Why VC's Are Hot For It	Ask your average Israeli venture capitalist to name a few companies they’re keeping tabs on and Fixya usually makes the short list—so do Benchmark’s Conduit and Sequoia’s Kenshoo. If you haven’t heard of Fixya, the concept is real simple: I...
Mar 16, 2009	Tekarma centralizes product reviews, customer support (invites)	Tekarma, a web site that compiles user-generated product reviews and tips in one place, launched its private beta last week. For now, the site is focused primarily on electronics, household items, cars, video games and sporting goods. Users...
May 11, 2008	Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce	Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single perso...
Mar 18, 2008	Fixya Raises $6 Million B Round for Crowdsourced Tech-Support	Companies hate providing good tech support for their products because it is expensive. And consumers hate calling up tech support when they can’t get a gadget to work properly because they usually get the run-around. The idea for Fixya is q...
Apr 26, 2007	Fixya: Fixya Junk	How do we get tech support? Well, you can RTFM or call the help-line. That usually results in a 25% chance of fixing the problem. Then you can do a search, find a forum mentioning your problem, post (“HEY GUYZ MY IPOD BROKED SCREEN WHATTF? ...
Jan 5, 2007	Consumer electronics search engine Retrevo raises $3.2M	Updated Retrevo, the search engine for consumer electronics products, has raised $3.2 million more in venture capital — timing the news to generate buzz ahead the CES consumer electronics conference in Las Vegas next week. The Sunnyvale com...

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FAQ about Fixya

When was Fixya founded?

Fixya was founded in 2005.

How much funding has Fixya raised?

Fixya has raised $6M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Fixya?

Parsers VC has collected 27 articles mentioning Fixya, among them “Smartwatches are not so smart after all -- the top problems users consistently face” (May 7, 2014) and “Fixit Site Fixya Launches Services For Small Businesses And Companies” (Apr 24, 2014).

Is Fixya still active?

Yes, Fixya is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 5, 2015.