Catching Up on Deal Radar 2008

Here’s some more catching up material for the holiday weekend: In the last month, we have featured the following companies in the Deal Radar 2008 series: * SaaS: PayCycle, Bill.com, Daptiv, PayScale. * Online Video/IPTV: Joost, VideoEgg, YuMe, BitTorrent, Brightcove, Revver, MotionBox, Veoh. * Others: Inform, Mercado, AKQA, Geni, Blurb, Mimosa, Metaweb, Cake Financial, and

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Deal Radar 2008: Brightcove

Brightcove is an online video publishing company that lets users—both established media networks and independent content makers—monetize their content through ad revenues. It was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who is now CEO.

Deal Radar 2008: YuMe

YuMe is a broadbrand video advertising network that allows publishers to organize their content into various categories that can be delivered to any device. Co-founders Jayant Kadambi and Ayyappan Sankaran realized that the video ad networks were mere extensions of text and banner ads and that the video ad network had a tremendous potential for

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Deal Radar 2008: VideoEgg

VideoEgg is a web based publishing service that allows users to format and publish video content from any device onto the web. Three Yale students?Matt Sanchez, Kevin Sladek and David Lerman? started VideoEgg in 2005 to build an easier way to edit, post and share videos online. The three had won a Yale sponsored contest

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