CastTV
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| CastTV | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Edwin Ong & Alex Vikati |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, US |
| Website | www.CastTV.com |
| Type of site | Video search engine |
| Current status | Private Beta |
CastTV is a web-wide video search and aggregation company based in San Francisco, California. CastTV was founded in 2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati.[1]
CastTV's consumer destination site can be found at CastTV.com. In addition, CastTV licenses its video search technology to media companies.
CastTV claims to solve the 2 main challenges in video search: having a meaningful index of videos and ranking them in a way that makes sense to the user. CastTV builds a fresh, high quality index with both popular and longtail content, including TV shows, movies, celebrity, news, sports and viral videos. The technology filters out expired videos, duplicate videos and video spam. CastTV's ranking algorithm delivers a balance of recent and authoritative / popular content to help users find videos that matter.[2]
[edit] History
- Early 2006: CastTV is founded by husband and wife entrepreneurs, Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati.
- December 2006: CastTV secures its first customer: Gemstar - TV Guide. [3]
- April 2007: CastTV raises a $3.1M Series A from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and additional funding from angel investors including Ron Conway and Marc Andreesen. Advisors include Rajeev Motwani and Timothy Chou.[4]
- June 2008: CastTV is in private beta.
[edit] References
- ^ About CastTV, by CastTV Inc., retrieved on June 3, 2008.
- ^ New companies launch: Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Faroo & more, by Chris Morrison, VentureBeat, June 3, 2007.
- ^ Gemstar-TV Guide Licenses Online-Search Technology, by Todd Spangler, Multichannel News, June 21, 2007.
- ^ CastTV Raises $3.1 Million, Battles Google And AOL In Video Search, by Mike Arrington, TechCrunch, April 24, 2007.
