Vidyo has raised yet another round of funding, this time $ 17 million. That brings total funding to $ 116 million, with the financing coming from inside and outside investors. Triangle Peak Partners was the lead new investor in the round, joining previous investors such as Juniper Networks, QuestMark Partners, Menlo Ventures, Rho Capital Partners, Star Ventures, and Four Rivers Group.
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Video Conferencing Startup Vidyo Raises Another $17M, Bringing Total Funding To $116M
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on April 22, 2013
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On The Heels Of Another Record Year, Vidyo Introduces Virtualized Video Conferencing
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on March 18, 2013
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Video conferencing startup Vidyo continues to grow, thanks to the help of service provider partnerships and through sales to various enterprise, government, and health agencies. It’s trying to make adopting its technology easier and cheaper, especially for large resellers and enterprises, with the introduction of products that work through a new, virtualized infrastructure.
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Zoom Raises $6M Series A, Launches Version 1.0 Of Its Radically Different Virtual Conferencing Tool
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on January 28, 2013
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Zoom, a startup founded by WebEx and Cisco veterans that wanted to make high quality video conferencing and virtual meetings accessible to everyone, instead of just those with the budgets to invest in expensive hardware and even more expensive software, today announced a new $ 6 million Series A round of funding, supplied by Qualcomm Ventures, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, WebEx founder Subrah Iyar and former Cisco SVP and General Counsel Dan Scheinman.
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Blue Jeans Network Brings Its Video Conferencing Software To Salesforce.com
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on September 11, 2012
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Cross-platform Video conferencing company Blue Jeans Network announced today that it will integrate with Salesforce.com.
Blue Jeans makes it possible for people using different video conferencing and telepresence systems to talk to each other from whatever device they want. So far it works with products from Cisco, Polycom, LifeSize and others, and software systems like Skype, Microsoft Lync and Google Video Chat. The new integration will bring video conferencing directly into the Salesforce.com application so that users don’t have to switch into another application to do a video conference on any of the supported systems.
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After Growing 80% Last Year, Vidyo Launches VidyoWay To Connect All Conferencing Systems For Free
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on July 23, 2012
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Video conferencing startup Vidyo has been working over the past several years to provide a software-based, interoperable service that will allow companies with various disparate video conferencing systems to communicate with one another. Now it’s making that capability available to even more businesses, with the launch of VidyoWay, which provides free, multi-vendor and multi-party video conferencing.
VidyoWay provides an easy way for users to connect their own video conferencing systems with those from industry leaders Cisco, Polycom, and Lifesize, as well as other H.323 and SIP-based room systems, Microsoft Lync clients, and mobile devices. The result is unified communications and interconnectivity without having to worry about legacy installed systems from multiple vendors.
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Juniper Networks Invests In Video Conferencing Startup Vidyo, Bringing Total Funding To $97M
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on May 22, 2012
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Video conferencing startup Vidyo announced Tuesday that it has received a strategic investment from Juniper Networks as part of the network equipment vendor’s Junos Innovation Fund. The funding comes alongside existing Vidyo investors such as QuestMark Partners, Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Star Ventures, and Four Rivers Group.
Vidyo makes video conferencing software that allows organizations to very efficiently and effectively make and receive video calls across any number of connected devices. Its video compression technology is based on H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC), which can be used to deploy high-quality video conferencing, even on constrained mobile networks.
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LiveMinutes Launches Simple, Free Document-Based Web Conferencing Service
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on October 28, 2011
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There are still a number of pain points with existing web conferencing platforms, including having to install software, complicated pricing plans, poor usability, and cluttered interfaces. LiveMinutes is hoping to disrupt this space with its free, simple document-based web conferencing service.
LiveMinutes free web-conferencing service sits between file sharing and web conferencing. You can upload documents (i.e. PowerPoint presentations etc.), and LiveMinutes will give you a link to share with other participants. Participants can join without downloading any software or signing up.
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AnyMeeting, The Free Webinar Service, Launches Redesign, Six-Way Video Conferencing
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on October 9, 2011
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AnyMeeting, the free web conferencing service all your online meeting and conference needs, is today launching a redesign of its user interface, which brings the service an upgraded interface that makes it even easier to meet with your colleagues without actually having to see them in person. If that doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will.
The company has also added a simultaneous video chat and broadcasting feature — a la Google+ Hangouts — that allows up to six participants to talk to each other and collaborate in realtime as they plan their takeover of the world.
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