Vigour
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded |
May 4, 2012 Berlin, Germany |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam |
| No. of locations | Berlin, Amsterdam |
| Founder(s) |
Ramon Duivenvoorden Jim de Beer Marcus Besjes |
| Key people | |
| Industry | Internet video |
| Products | Vigour Video |
| Employees | 12 |
| Website | http://www.vigour.io |
Vigour is a venture-backed, privately held company that provides a web-based multiscreen framework to media companies. The company was founded in 2012 by friends Jim de Beer, Ramon Duivenvoorden and Marcus Besjes.[1]
History
The founders were invited to work on an innovation project for the Dutch telecom provider KPN. During the project they had to build a prototype that would allow users to watch video content from any screen in the household. When they realised that it would be very difficult to create a high performance user interface across all those platforms they started building their own framework to overcome the problems they encountered.[2]
The Product
Vigour developed a technology that enables user interfaces to run on any platform (phone, tablet, web, TV, consoles etc.) by only using web technologies. The Vigour Video product enables media companies to add a multiscreen layer on their existing videoservice and the roles of different connected devices change based on the context of the user. [3]
References
- ↑ Wauters, Robin (27 May 2013). "Vigour raises $650,000 to help users experience apps fluidly across multiple screens". The Next Web. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ↑ Hamish, Mckenzie (27 May 2013). "Take a movie from iPad to TV with just a swipe: Vigour sets a new standard for cross-device sharing". Pandodaily. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ↑ Stuart, Dredge (28 May 2013). "Vigour raises €500k funding for multi-screen video technology". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2014.