| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.07.2016 | Google acquires Anvato, a media streaming and monetization platform for broadcasters | Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato, a platform for encoding, editing, publishing and distribution video across platforms. The company s... |
| 18.06.2016 | Meet Erik Benson, Partner at Voyager Capital | Based in the Pacific Northwest, Benson and his firm focus on B2B software technologies
There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. What everyone can agree on, though, is that there ar... |
| 18.06.2016 | Revealed: EY names 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year winners for Pacific NW | Master of ceremonies Jenni Hogan, left, and EY’s Greg Beams, far right, with EY regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners Scott and Ally Svenson of Mod Pizza; Sam Blackman of Elemental Technologies; Luke Kanies of Puppet; Matt Oppenhe... |
| 05.09.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 9/5/15 | AOL made two acquisitions in Kanvas Labs and Millennial Media; Microsoft bought VoloMetrix
AOL made a couple of acquistions this week. First it bought mobile app developer Kanvas Labs. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Kanvas L... |
| 04.09.2015 | Amazon Web Services to Acquire Elemental Technologies | Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) company, is to acquire Elemental Technologies, Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based provider of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery.
The terms of the acquisiti... |
| 03.09.2015 | AWS Buys Video Software Maker Elemental Technologies for Reported $500M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bolstering its already substantial cloud-based video offerings with the acquisition of Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies.
Elemental makes ... |
| 03.09.2015 | Amazon to acquire video processing startup Elemental Technologies | Elemental CEO Sam Blackman speaks at TechFestNW in 2014. Elemental is one of Portland’s most successful startups in recent years.
Amazon has agreed to acquire Portland-based video processing startup Elemental Technologies.
Founded in 2006, ... |
| 28.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 28, 2015 | Deliveroo took $70M; Kareo pulled in $55M; MacroFab closed $2M
Deliveroo, a food delivery startup based in the United Kingdom, took a $70 million round, according to a report from VentureBeat. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital and Inde... |
| 09.01.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Cray, Blue Box, BigDoor, Late ’14 Deals, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Happy 2015! There’s lots to catch up on in Northwest tech news after a long holiday break, including the prospect of better U.S. weather forecasts powered by Cray supercompute... |
| 26.12.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/26/14 | Xiaomi, Appcues, Yetang, Hive, Ginger.io, Elemental Technologies, Front Desk, Orchestro, Cloudwise
Seed stage
Appcues, an SaaS platform for user onboarding, raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Atlas Venture, along with Ty Danco, Dharme... |
| 22.12.2014 | Elemental Technologies Closes $14.5M in Series D Financing | Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, closed $14.5m in Series D financing.
The round was led by Telstra with participation from existing investor Gene... |
| 22.12.2014 | Elemental Technologies Snares $14.5M in Series C |
PORTLAND, OR, Leading supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced that it has secured $14.5 million in series D financing led by Telstra.
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| 22.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Elemental Technologies grabs $14.5M
Elemental Technologies, which helps media companies connect consumers with video content... |
| 22.12.2014 | Elemental raises $14.5M from Australian telco giant Telstra, European broadcaster Sky | Elemental CEO Sam Blackman speaks at TechFestNW in Portland. Elemental is one of Portland’s most successful startups in recent years.
Portland-based Elemental Technologies today announced a $14.5 million Series D financing round led by Tels... |
| 22.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 30.10.2014 | Why is the new iMac 5K instead of 4K? It’s all about the video, baby | reader comments 127 with 87 posters participating
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| 12.08.2014 | Hey, Portland geeks: Join GeekWire on the PDX TechCrawl this Thursday | GeekWire will be hanging in the beautiful Rose City this week. Photo via Flickr user Stuart Seeger.
Portland is full of fast-growing startups — some that have already been swooped up by tech giants, others that are well on their way to huge... |
| 15.07.2013 | After one year, Simple finds success changing how people spend, save and store money | The Simple team has grown to 72 employees and is now based in Portland, Ore.
It’s hard to believe that Simple became available to customers only one year ago. The online-only banking startup, which started in New York and made the move to P... |
| 12.07.2013 | Why this founder left the Bay Area for Portland | Tilde.io founder Tom Dale.
Portland is certainly growing as a national startup hub and one San Francisco founder frustrated with Bay Area scene is making the move north to the Rose City.
Tom Dale, who co-founded San Fran-based development s... |
| 09.07.2013 | Oregon’s top research universities form accelerator to create more startups | Portland, Oregon. Photo via Radworld
In an effort to spur startup growth, Oregon legislators just passed a bill that will help the University of Oregon and Oregon State University come together to pump out small companies based on research ... |
| 01.07.2013 | Former Vulcan partner Dino Vendetti raising cash for new Oregon venture fund | Dino Vendetti
Dino Vendetti, a former partner at Vulcan and exec at Metawave, has raised $3 million of a $15 million fund for a new Bend, Ore.-based venture fund called Seven Peaks Ventures.
Seven Peaks has a simple website up and describes... |
| 30.05.2013 | Slick video shows why Portland is an awesome city for tech startups | When we sat down with Elemental CEO Sam Blackman earlier this month, the GeekWire Startup CEO of the Year wasn’t shy about his thoughts on Portland being the hottest startup spot in the country.
“In my opinion, if you are a software enginee... |
| 15.05.2013 | Why our Startup CEO of the Year thinks Portland is the next great startup city | Elemental CEO Sam Blackman stands on the roof of the company HQ in downtown Portland with one of its big satellites.
When we announced that Elemental’s Sam Blackman had won the Startup CEO of the Year award at last week’s GeekWire Awards, m... |
| 08.05.2012 | Elemental Technologies Raises $13M in Series C Financing | Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Oregon-based supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has raised $13m in Series C financing.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), with participation from existing inve... |
| 08.05.2012 | Elemental Secures $13M |
PORTLAND, OR, Leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced that it raised $13 million in Series C financing led by Norwest Venture Partners.
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| 08.05.2012 | Norwest leads $13M Series C in Elemental Technologies | NVP bets on video delivery over multiple devices, such as iPads, iPhones, smartphones, set-top boxes
The 2012 Olympics will be held this July in London, and apparently, the event will not only showcase the world's most skilled athletes, but... |
| 08.05.2012 | Elemental Technologies Grabs $13M to Expand in Video Processing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For your average digital consumer, Internet-connected video is no longer a revolutionary thing. It’s now simply a staple of the modern media diet, and one that will get even m... |
| 07.05.2012 | As sales soar, Elemental raises $13M to help big media deliver video to multiple screens | Elemental Technologies CEO Sam Blackman wasn’t looking for cash. After all, more than half of the money from the company’s last round is still parked in the bank. But when you’ve got a business that’s nearly tripling revenues and operating ... |
| 07.05.2012 | Aiming For Global Expansion, Elemental Technologies Raises $13M In Round Led By Norwest | Elemental Technologies, which builds encoding software used by some of the largest video providers in the world, raised $13 million in a Series C round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners, which also includes existing investors Gener... |
| 07.05.2012 | Elemental Technologies raises $13M to expand web video delivery | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 11.01.2012 | Elemental Pounces on Feds’ Push to Hush Loud Commercials | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Our long national nightmare of TV commercials that are too loud is finally nearing its end—and Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies is angling to help its network custome... |
| 19.10.2011 | Rob Glaser returns to his roots, joins $24 million round for video delivery startup Qwilt | Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser helped pioneer the online video, founding RealNetworks in 1995 a mere 10 years before YouTube came into existence. Maybe he was just a tad too early. But Glaser, who remains chairman of Real, hasn’t lost his interest i... |
| 25.07.2011 | Comcast inks deal with NW companies to stream video to the iPad and iPhone | With Hulu reportedly for sale and Netflix taking heat over its price hike, Comcast is making a bigger push to deliver online video content to mobile devices. The cable giant today announced that it plans to begin using video processing tech... |
| 15.07.2011 | Tech Moves: ISB attracts an all-star fundraiser; Blue Nile taps a Starbucks vet; and more | The ISB's Sissy Walsh Bouchard
We’ve been tracking a number of key departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent days. Here are a few notable tech moves:
Sissy Walsh Bouchard, a former fundraiser at... |
| 29.03.2011 | Elemental, Riding Wave of Online Video Delivery, Picks Up More Broadcast Business as Rivals Exit | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
File this under “one to watch more closely.”
Before I tell you about the company or its news, consider a few trends. People are watching more videos on their iPads and other t... |
| 25.01.2011 | Elemental Gets Citrix Investment, New Board Member | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies, a video processing startup, said today it has received a strategic investment from Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) and has added Kevin... |
| 06.01.2011 | IPad Ripple Effect: The Unfolding Future of Video Transcoding Technology | You might not think about video transcoding software very often, but the technology it takes to prepare all those videos you watch on your iPad is helping drive new developments that will enable a very different experience of online video i... |
| 05.01.2011 | Elemental Teams Up With Intel, Looks to Improve Video Delivery to Devices | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Interesting news from the video world today. Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies says it has been working with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) for the past year to make its video-p... |
| 15.11.2010 | Amazon, Elemental Team Up for Video Processing in the Cloud | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Amazon Web Services announced today it has introduced a new cloud-computing service based on graphics processing units (GPUs). Portland, OR-based Elemental Techn... |
| 27.07.2010 | Elemental Talks About Its $7.5M Series B, and Cashing In on the New Economics of Online Video | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The online video market just got a little hotter. Last month, my colleague Luke broke the news that Elemental Technologies, a parallel-processing video software startup in Por... |
| 27.07.2010 | Elemental Technologies Raises $7.5M in Series B Financing | Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of massively parallel video processing solutions for broadcast and online video customers, has raised $7.5m in Series B financing.
Investors include Steamboat Ventures, a venture cap... |
| 27.07.2010 | Tapping Disney, Elemental raises $7.5M as it shoots for mastery of web video processing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Elemental Technologies has raised $7.5 million fr... |
| 27.07.2010 | Tapping Disney, Elemental raises $7.5M as it shoots for mastery of web video processing | Elemental Technologies has raised $7.5 million from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures as it expands in the market for web video processing hardware.
Portland, Ore.-based Elemental makes video processing servers with graphics chips that can handle... |
| 06.04.2010 | Elemental Live: the cure for lousy streaming video? | Watching live video on the Internet remains a hit-or-miss experience, with buffer delays and stream glitches ruining the show. Elemental Technologies is launching a hardware system today that makes it much simpler and cheaper to broadcast h... |
| 06.04.2010 | Elemental Technologies Looks to Hit Home Run with Streaming Video for TV and Web Content | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you watched last night’s NCAA men’s basketball championship game on the Web, or followed any of Major League Baseball’s opening day action via video on your mobile phone, t... |
| 15.12.2009 | How soon till mobile TV really gets going? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research esti... |
| 15.12.2009 | How soon till mobile TV really gets going? | Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research estimates that mobile TV will have 43 million subscribers by 2013, and research firm TeleAnalytics estimates 50 million mobile TV users in North America by the same year. But so far mobile TV has... |
| 10.12.2009 | A second look at the Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition | reader comments 71 with 39 posters participating, including story author
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| 12.11.2009 | How the Internet is changing TV | NewTeeVee Live: Emerging players in the online video space share what they're working on
Online video consumption is growing rapidly. But when will it overtake traditional television consumption? Over at GigaOm's NewTeeVee Live conference i... |
| 21.08.2009 | Six Startup CEOs On Their Company Culture, Boiled Down to One Word | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You can tell a lot about a company from its chief executive. They set the tone, the direction, the pace of operations. For a startup, it all starts with the CEO.
A startup’s c... |
| 20.05.2009 | Elemental Rolls Out Video Servers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies, a video processing startup, announced today the beta release of its server product, which uses off-the-shelf graphics processing uni... |
| 09.03.2009 | NVIDIA announces investment effort for GPU-based computing startups | NVIDIA is known primarily for their PC graphics cards, but they’ve been in the news recently both for the expansion of their CUDA and PhysX initiatives as well as (allegedly) developing a CPU to challenge Intel and AMD. They’ve been propone... |
| 14.01.2009 | Smoothing Out Jittery Internet Video, Elemental Technologies Looks to Reinvent How You Watch | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re like most people, you’re viewing a lot more videos on your computer or mobile device these days. But say you want to watch CNN’s live coverage of the U.S. presidenti... |
| 17.12.2008 | GPU Accelerated Video Transcoding | We’ve been hearing a lot about the benefits of performing computationally intensive tasks on the graphics processor, rather than the CPU, for quite some time now. To date, there has been very little traction in this area for the general con... |
| 23.10.2008 | Elemental launches its “Badaboom” video conversion software | As I write this, I’m waiting for a long upload to YouTube to finish. It’s taking forever. If you’ve ever tried to move a movie or home video from a computer to a portable device, you know the feeling. That’s what Badaboom is for.
Elemental ... |
| 22.08.2008 | Nvidia’s Nvision Conference Makes Pixels the Point | Part LAN party, part gaming convention, part tutorial session, part business conference: that’s Nvidia’s Nvision conference next week in a nutshell.
According to Jeff Herbst, vie president of business development for Nvidia, the three-day e... |
| 18.07.2008 | WTIA’s Summer Social: Busy Times, Hating Starbucks, and an Offer I Can’t Refuse | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“The only tall blonde women in Seattle are recruiters.” This and other astute observations from Aviel Ginzburg—by day, a mild-mannered developer at Seattle-based Appature, and... |
| 18.07.2008 | Elemental Technologies raises $7.1M for video software | Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Ore. provider of parallel video processing software, has raised $7.1 million in new funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital.
Elemental says its software can perform video encoding, tr... |
| 17.07.2008 | Elementary, My Dear Video: Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million, Goes After Media Conversion Market | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everyone knows that Internet video is taking off. With the popularity of YouTube, online TV shows, and other video sites, the market seems to be ready. But now there are plent... |
