Vobile joins race to help find copyright infringement in video, raises $7M more
Vobile, one of several companies hoping to help content producers crack down on copyright infringement in video, has raised $7 million more in financing.
We previously wrote about the Silicon Valley company here, when Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu invested. The latest round was led by Steamboat Ventures (a venture firm affiliated with Disney) and undisclosed individuals, and was first reported today by VentureWire.
The video identification field is getting increasingly sophisticated, and it needs to… Continue Reading
Facebook’s Yu joins board of Vobile, a video fingerprint company
Gideon Yu, Facebook’s chief financial officer, has joined the board of directors of Vobile Inc., a startup that automatically identifies copyrighted video content on online video sites, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required).
Vobile offers a service called VideoDNA that monitors, tracks and manages online video content, so companies can automatically pull down copyright-violating videos instead of paying people to manually find and remove the offending videos. The company can also identify the contents of… Continue Reading