OpenElement

What OpenElement does

OpenElement is a private French company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Nancy, France. According to its firmographic description, the company operated as a free web design and editing tool targeted at designers and developers, suggesting a WYSIWYG-style or code-assisted authoring product for building websites without (or with reduced) manual coding. The company is small, with 1-10 employees per available data, and has historically operated as a for-profit private entity with no public ticker or disclosed funding rounds.

The underlying technology, product feature set, and platform architecture are not documented in the available source material. No API, SDK, integrations, AI/ML capabilities, patents, or proprietary technology descriptions are present. The product's business model is not formally disclosed, though the free positioning implies either a freemium approach, ad-supported monetization, or ancillary services — none of which are itemized in the data. No management team, customer logos, geographic markets served, partnerships, awards, or certifications are recorded.

The most material current signal is that the openelement.com domain is currently parked on Hostinger's DNS system with no active company website content. This indicates that, as of the most recent observation, OpenElement has either ceased active operations, downsized to a maintenance-only posture, or lost control of its primary digital channel. As a result, the company's current operating status, customer base, and revenue mechanics cannot be verified from public sources, and the investment-relevant picture is one of a likely dormant micro-cap software entity.

Name

OpenElement

Website

https://openelement.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

OpenElement is a French private company founded in 2010 that offered a free web design and editing tool for designers and developers; its primary domain is currently parked, suggesting limited or no active operations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web Design Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

OER Authoring, Remixing & Publishing Tools/Platforms (EDAGAJAM)

Keywords

• Web design software
• Website editor
• WYSIWYG editor
• Web authoring tool
• Design software

Headquarters

HQ city

Nancy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

OpenElement is a free web design and editing tool aimed at designers and developers for building and editing websites. It was distributed as a downloadable/software-based authoring product; no additional commercial offerings, pricing, or product lines are evidenced in the current source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OpenElement Web Design Tool A free web design and editing tool for designers and developers used to build and edit websites.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• WordPress.com: WordPress.com offers hosted website building tools with block-based and classic editors for designers, developers, and creators. It overlaps with OpenElement's positioning as a web design and editing tool with a free entry tier.
• Squarespace: Squarespace is a major website builder with a drag-and-drop editor focused on design quality and templates. It competes in the same web design and editing category as OpenElement, though positioned upmarket with paid-only plans.
• Adobe Dreamweaver: Adobe Dreamweaver is a professional web design and code editor for designers and developers. It directly competes with OpenElement in providing web authoring tools, but with a paid subscription model within the Adobe ecosystem.
• Wix: Wix is a leading cloud-based website builder with a drag-and-drop editor for designers and non-technical users. It competes with OpenElement in the free/entry-level web design tool market, but at vastly larger scale and feature breadth.

Emerging players

• KompoZer: KompoZer is a free, open-source WYSIWYG HTML editor for web design. It targets a similar designer/developer user base as OpenElement and was a comparable free web design tool in the same era OpenElement was founded.
• BlueGriffon: BlueGriffon is a free, open-source web editor (Wysiwyg) for HTML/CSS authored by the W3C. It overlaps with OpenElement as a downloadable web design tool for individual designers and developers, though on a smaller scale.

Direct peers

• Webflow: Webflow is a professional-grade visual web design and development platform aimed at designers and developers. It targets the same technically savvy user base as OpenElement, offering website creation and editing tools with greater depth and a SaaS revenue model.
• Google Web Designer: Google Web Designer is a free, downloadable web design and editing tool for creating HTML5 sites and ads. It directly matches OpenElement's positioning as a free, locally-installed web design tool for designers and developers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/openElement
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/element-technologie

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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