Video Funding Keeps on Coming
It’s our sole focus to cover online video, and we still don’t get to every funding release that shoots over the wires. There’s just a lot of money changing hands in this space. Here’s some notable transactions from the last week.
Break.com raised $21 million from Lionsgate; the amount wasn’t officially disclosed, but Variety claims the inside track, saying the stock deal bought the studio 42 percent of the website. Lionsgate is looking to find talent on the site and promote and distribute its own releases. In a press release Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns said the studio became interested in Break after having success as an advertiser there.
Level 3 paid $45 million for Servecast. The Dublin, Ireland-based provider of video and rights management will join the Broomfield, Colorado-based infrastructure provider, which has been ramping up its video offerings with the purchase of the Savvis CDN business in December.
Tvtrip raised $4.8 million for a video hotel directory. The funding came from Balderton Capital and Partech International. Close competitor Trivop recently raised $800,000. Both companies are based in Paris and focus on European destinations.
GolfLink acquired golf how-to video site GolfSpan, with its library of “700 professionally-produced videos from leading golf instructors (including Hank Haney, Jim McLean, Jimmy Ballard and many more).” (via paidContent).
Yesterday, we told you about Adap.tv raising $10 million for contextual ad placement in online videos. Also, Glowria, a European Netflix clone with IPTV and VOD services, raised $8.3 million (paidContent). And last week DiBcom raised $27 million for mobile TV chips (VentureBeat).
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have u covered 60frames.com with joel and ethan coen “serving on the board” yet? read more here: http://neovids.tv/73/the-bar-for-quality-content-produced-on-the-web-will-rise%e2%80%9d/
neovids on July 13th, 2007 at 3:53 am - Permalink
Yeah, mentioned that one earlier this week too. Not a very slow July, eh?
http://newteevee.com/2007/07/11/60frames-gives-pros-a-ticket-to-web-video/
Liz Gannes on July 13th, 2007 at 7:34 am - Permalink
Hi,
My name is Adina and I work for Trivop. I saw that you wrote about us on your blog! It is always nice to see what people say about us. Thank you for your comments.
We would like to keep you updated about our company, new features and press releases, so please send us your email address.
Thanks again for your interest and comments about Trivop.
Best regards,
Adina
Adina Cioceanu on August 6th, 2007 at 3:43 am - Permalink
my email is adina@trivop.com
Adina Cioceanu on August 7th, 2007 at 4:17 am - Permalink