Ooyala gets $10M more for online video
Ooyala, a video startup founded by a group of former Googlers, has raised $10 million in a third round of venture funding.
The Mountain View, Calif., company sells its technology to companies that want to include video as part of their web content. For example, VentureBeat writer Dean Takahashi used Ooyala to publish the videos he recorded during the recent DEMO conference. The company also launched a livestreaming video service last week, making it more of… Continue Reading
Ooyala announces live video streaming feature
Aiming to be a one-stop shop for web video, Ooyala is announcing a live video streaming feature for content publishers.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company says it will make it easy for content publishers to create and manage live video streams from a single publishing platform. With the new feature, customers can manage live videos alongside other video assets. The analytics, branding, and monetization tools can all be found in the same place too. The streaming… Continue Reading
Video startup Ooyala appoints Agile Software’s Jay Fulcher as CEO
Video platform company Ooyala just announced that Jay Fulcher, who was president and chief executive of Agile Software when it sold to Oracle for $495 million, is its new chief executive and president.
The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., and founded by a group of former Googlers, revealed last month that it had been looking for a new chief executive. Co-founder and then-chief executive Bismarck Lepe said the search was his decision, not investor Sierra… Continue Reading
TC50: Ashton Kutcher speaks about the opportunities for creators in online video
Blah Girls, a cartoon and web site that features a group of teenage girls discussing pop culture, launched at the TechCrunch50 conference earlier today. It’s part of a Los Angeles-based media startup that actor Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg started in 2005, called Katalyst Media. In this short video clip created by Alexa Lee at video platform company Ooyala, they say why they’re excited about making online content.
The company has previously been behind movies like… Continue Reading
Ooyala raises $8.5M for new way to advertise in video
updated to add video tour of the product
Ooyala, a company founded by a couple of former high-ranking Google employees that wants to revolutionize advertising within online video, has received $8.5 million in a second round of investment.
Ooyala’s initial investors also took part in the investment, but the round was led by Sierra Ventures.
Ooyala, of Mountain View, Calif., allows you to upload your video to the Internet via a service called Backlot. The service helps you… Continue Reading
Roundup: Ooyala to launch, Google gobbles Greenborder and more
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Ooyala, secretive ex-Google company, about to launch — The Mountain View, Calif. company, founded by ex-Google engineers and product managers, is secretive but says it delivers a high-quality, interactive, video experience, and is a couple of months away from launch. Sean Knapp, a co-founder, formerly led Google’s user interface team for web and image search. Bismarck Lepe, also from Google, and another of the three co-founders, told VentureBeat the company wants to stay… Continue Reading