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Today we have one million reasons to celebrate!<\/p>\n

WOT has closed a new investment round from technology investor Inventure<\/a>, private investor Risto Siilasmaa<\/a>, and Finnish Industry Investment<\/a>, which has been a shareholder of WOT Services Ltd. since 2007. We welcome the new investors on board!<\/p>\n

The new investment of 1M\u20ac will help us keep pace with the accelerating growth of the WOT community, and develop the WOT service further. Question for you, our community: What is the key feature or function that you’d like to improve in WOT?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read also the official press release Web of Trust Closes Investment Round from Inventure.<\/a><\/p>\n

Edit:<\/strong> Here are some articles written about the new investment:
\nThe Next Web: Web Of Trust lands $1.3m in funding to make the web a safer place<\/a>
\nTech Crunch: Web Of Trust, The Crowdsourced Safe Surfing Tool, Raises Further $1.3M Led By Inventure<\/a>
\nArctic Startup: Web Of Trust Raises \u20ac1 Million<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we have one million reasons to celebrate! WOT has closed a new investment round from technology investor Inventure, private investor Risto Siilasmaa, and Finnish Industry Investment, which has been a shareholder of WOT Services Ltd. since 2007. We welcome the new investors on board! The new investment of 1M\u20ac will help us keep pace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCelebrating new investment! | WOT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are excited to celebrate WOT\u2019s new investment! We thank and appreciate our loyal investors who support WOT and want to see us grow. 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