Transpera, latest mobile video channel company

July 23, 2007 | Matt Marshall

Transpera, a Santa Monica, Calif. company that lets users create their own mobile video channels for sharing with friends, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding Intel Capital, IDG Ventures and First Round Capital,

There are several other companies, including MyWaves, doing very similar things. The company has yet to emerge, so its hard to tell how different its product will be. It lets you pull videos from YouTube and other sites.

Frank Barbieri, former President and COO of Viva Vision, is chief executive. The company has a number of other notable industry players on its team and advisory board.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.