Content delivery platform Conviva raises $20M in new funding, but won’t talk about the technology
Conviva, a San Mateo, Calif. company that was formerly called Rinera Networks, has raised a substantial $20 million in new funding. But, as the headline notes, they don’t want to give the details on why they’re able to attract so much — short of making a few mildly disparaging comments about other companies in the space.
To be specific, the company doesn’t mind talking about what it wants to do; it just won’t detail why it… Continue Reading
DaCast offers peer-to-peer video streaming broadcasts
We can all watch live video broadcasts on the internet thanks to content delivery networks (CDNs), which set up strategic points online where they can send streams of videos to internet users as efficiently as possible without clogging up the entire web.
But Andolis, a San Francisco startup with French roots, hopes to disrupt that business with a product called DaCast. It uses technology that can do the same thing as CDNs much more efficiently and… Continue Reading
Rinera Networks raises $9M for video distribution
Rinera Networks, a San Mateo, Ca. online video distribution start-up, has raised $9 million in a first round of funding from New Enterprise Associates and Foundation Capital.
See the statement here.
Dr. Hui Zhang, President, and Dr. Ion Stoica, CTO, founded Rinera to address unsolved problems in delivering high quality video over the Internet, the company said.
Here’s a snippet from the release:
Dr. Zhang from Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. Stoica from U.C. Berkeley are considered… Continue Reading