Oddcast

http://oddcast.com/

Last activity: 05.10.2015

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8.09K

Followers

807

Website visits

76.4K /mo.

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Overview

Location

United States, New York

Employees

51-200

Founded date

1999

Investors 1

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Mentions in press and media 21

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Jan 9, 2009	Make Your Photos Talk Smack With Storyblender	Storyblender, the casual animation site that launched at TechCrunch40 that lets you put together customized goofy video clips, has just opened up a fun new side project called Make Me Talk. The new web app lets you stick some fake lips on t...
Oct 16, 2008	Build Your Own 3D Movie Clips In A Flash With Xtranormal	Try out Xtranormal, a 3D movie building startup that launched last week, and there’s a good chance you won’t get any work done for the rest of the afternoon. As Ouriel Ohayon reported on TechCrunch France last night, the site allows users t...
Jun 6, 2008	With Beema, Your 3D Avatar Is Only A Phone Call Away	Beema, a 3D animation studio that has been working in the corporate space for the last decade, has released a new platform in beta that allows users to generate 3D speaking avatars with only a phone call. During signup, users enter their ph...
Apr 28, 2008	I Want My MTV…Voki Playground?	MTV has partnered with Oddcast to provide avatar-centric Voki Playgrounds for some of their most popular shows. Visitors to these so-called playgrounds (really just a fancy word for sub-sites) can create customizable avatars that mouth your...
Mar 20, 2008	Oddcast to Let You Put Your Face on a Movie Star's	Just days after competitor Gizmoz announced more funding and AIM integration, Oddcast is previewing a new service called 3D Videostar that will let users import their faces into movie clips to replace those of movie stars. There’s no word y...
Mar 11, 2008	TargetSpot Raises Series B Round	Last year, we helped get a company started called TargetSpot. TargetSpot is the first self serve ad network for streaming audio and internet radio. TargetSpot was built by our portfolio company Oddcast for CBS Radio and they eventually conc...
Dec 15, 2007	Elf Yourself	I was looking up some information on The Funded on Alexa yesterday and came across a chart that showed Elf Yourself was on fire. So I did some comparisons to see exactly how much traffic Elf Yourself has. If this Alexa chart is correct, the...
Nov 11, 2007	Twittering Avatar	I got a preview of a cool new feature that will be in the next release of Voki, a consumer avatar service developed by our portfolio company Oddcast. Voki will let you link your Voki scene to other services. I linked my avatar to twitter an...
May 31, 2007	Gizmoz Launches – Create Your Talking 3D Avatar	I first wrote about Israeli widget site Gizmoz in December 2006. At the time, the company hadn’t launched its product to create personalized widgets using users’ pictures and voice, but they had a working demo. Today, the product launches f...
May 15, 2007	Voki	You will probably notice that I have a new avatar on the blog this morning. That’s because our portfolio company Oddcast, which is the company behind the SitePal avatar that was on this blog for the past year, has released a new service cal...
Apr 23, 2007	TargetSpot	I’ve spent a lot of time in the past eight years working with the radio broadcast industry on the conversion of their business from analog to digital. That work is largely related to my role as a director and financial investor in a company...
Apr 18, 2007	Looking For A Killer Information Architect	Our portfolio company, Oddcast, is at the cutting edge of social media with their talking animated avatars that allow people to express themselves virtually on the web. They are seeking an information architect to help them take their produ...
Dec 21, 2006	Crazy 3D Avatars From Gizmoz	I first met Eyal Gever, the founder of Gizmoz, at the Israeli Web Tour conference in Palo Alto a couple of months ago. Later that day I saw Eyal again, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This time he was giving a demo (in the middle of...
Nov 26, 2006	Prosumer	I’ve heard the world prosumer used a lot lately. I’ve noticed that it has taken on two separate meanings. The first meaning, coined by Alvin Toffler in his prophetic book, The Third Wave, is the merger between the notions of producer and co...
Nov 18, 2006	The Coming Flash Desktop	I have become a huge fan of Flash. I never liked websites that were built in Flash. They took too long to load. I never understood what was wrong with html. It’s still true that a website that is entirely built in Flash is not attractive to...
Sep 19, 2006	Early Stage Investing	I thought I’d lead off my series of posts on “other things we look for” with a discussion of our preference for early stage investing. Most of our investment approach is built on top of our foundation as early stage investors. But what doe...
Aug 17, 2006	Welcome Andrew Parker	A few weeks ago we mentioned that we were looking for the right person to replace Charlie, who had left us to take a product management position at Oddcast. Prior to this post, we had informally reached out to a few friends to let them know...
Jul 7, 2006	A Bittersweet Moment	It is with mixed emotions that we bid Charlie O’Donnell goodbye. As Charlie explains on his personal weblog, he is leaving Union Square Ventures at the end of next week to join our portfolio company Oddcast in the newly created position of...
Jun 13, 2006	Oddcast	Last week, we closed an investment in Oddcast, our eighth portfolio company and Brad will be joining the Oddcast board of directors. Oddcast is the leading developer of web-based avatars for businesses and consumers. For some time now, we...
Mar 27, 2006	Avatars	One of the things we are spending time on in our quest to look ahead is virtual worlds and avatars. I’ve spent some time in Second Life and have created a persona called Flat Plasma. I haven’t spent any money there yet and am not yet as add...

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FAQ about Oddcast

When was Oddcast founded?

Oddcast was founded in 1999.

What has the press written about Oddcast?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning Oddcast, among them “Make Your Photos Talk Smack With Storyblender” (Jan 9, 2009) and “Build Your Own 3D Movie Clips In A Flash With Xtranormal” (Oct 16, 2008).

Is Oddcast still active?

Yes, Oddcast is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 5, 2015.