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| May 12, 2016 | Vimeo acquires Brooklyn’s VHX to bulk up on content | Not content to be a passive platform any longer, Vimeo, the YouTube for cool kids, announced that it has acquired Dumbo’s VHX.
VHX is a platform that allows content creators to sell their ‘tent directly to consumers. As far back as 2013, Az... |
| May 7, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 5/7/16 | Adobe bought Livefyre; LinkedIn acquired Run Hop; Pinterest purchased URX
Video-sharing website Vimeo acquired VHX, a platform that allows video creators sell their content from their own websites. No financial terms of the deal were disclo... |
| May 4, 2016 | Vimeo Acquires VHX | NYC-based video creation platform Vimeo has acquired VHX, a platform that allows creators to sell subscription channels from apps and sites.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Co-founded by Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh, VHX provide... |
| May 2, 2016 | Vimeo acquires white-label video subscription platform VHX to help creators build their own Netflix | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Vimeo has acquired fellow New York company VHX, a platform that lets creators set up their own video distribution networks online. Term... |
| May 2, 2016 | Vimeo acquires white-label video subscription platform VHX to help creators build their own Netflix | Vimeo has acquired fellow New York company VHX, a platform that lets creators set up their own video distribution networks online. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2010, VHX offers a number of services aimed at helping peopl... |
| May 2, 2016 | Vimeo acquires video subscription platform VHX | VHX is a video distribution platform that lets creators launch their own video subscription services
The streaming video business is dominated by big companies, like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, but what about the little guy who wants to set u... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | Video Distribution Startup VHX Is Now Building Apps For Phones, Tablets And Internet-Connected TVs | VHX, a startup that helps customers sell videos online, is taking a big leap into mobile, with new capabilities for publishers to launch their own custom apps.
While the startup is officially announcing those capabilities today, as part of ... |
| May 6, 2015 | 3D printers for Mother’s Day? [Startup Roundup] | Who’s making moves?
On Tuesday VHX announced a partnership with Zype, which facilitates making branded video apps for various devices. Here’s a how-to from the Zype dev site. Then, on Wednesday, VHX announced it would create a subscription ... |
| Mar 26, 2015 | Brick-and-mortar store finder Strolby adds 6th market: Chicago [Startup Roundup] | Who’s making moves?
Downtown’s Strolby, a company that helps people shop local on-foot and online, added Chicago as its sixth market. The startup helps people find interesting brick-and-mortar shops.
NYU WIRELESS, the Downtown think tank so... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | VHX is now live on Roku | Roku broke 10 million users last year. The streaming platform is going strong, announcing it would be out on more kinds of TVs at the most recent Consumer Electronics Show. Now, one of the channels you can get via your Roku is Dumbo’s own V... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Williamsburg shoe company raises another $1.5 million [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Greats Brand, the shoe company, raised $1.5 million on an offered $4 million equity-only round, according to the SEC. This was their second round. The company raised just shy of $2 million last year.
Who’s making moves?... |
| Jan 8, 2015 | VHX Raises $5M in Series B Funding | VHX, a NY-based provider of an online digital distribution platform for artists to sell video content and connect with fans, raised $5m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Comcast Ventures with participation from Union Square Ventures... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | VHX Introduces An iPhone App And Library So You Can View Your Whole Video Collection In One Place | VHX has been working hard to make it easier for independent content owners to sell their videos online. And now it’s working to make it easier for consumers to find and enjoy the content that they’ve bought off the platform, with the introd... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | Toymail wins Cisco internet-of-things award [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Flipsicle raised $2 million in angel funding while in pre-launch mode, according to The India Times. The company’s main product is Flittr, out now on iOS and soon on Android, where users can ask questions in text and ge... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | How I Work: Front End Developer Gina Binetti, of VHX | Gina Binetti recently helped launch the new iOS app for online video distribution platform VHX, and if not for a required course in college, she might not have turned to programming.
“I’d been required to take a Visual Basic class, and I di... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | You can now 3D print in perfectly Martha pastels [Startup Roundup] | Who’s making moves?
PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman announced they’re leaving WNYC’s One The Media with this episode. We kinda had a feeling. They will be making their next show, called Reply All, at Gimlet Media.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia d... |
| Oct 15, 2014 | VHX hits million-user milestone | VHX has had over a million customers, according to the video startup’s stats page.
VHX says its millionth user logged in on the last day of September. “Thanks to a new customer in Beaumont, Texas for making the purchase that was our 1,000,0... |
| Sep 9, 2014 | Brooklyn companies participating in tomorrow’s Internet Slowdown Day | On Wednesday, Sept. 10, websites around the country will place a symbolic loading symbol on their sites to raise awareness about a proposed rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would make it feasible to create two ... |
| Sep 2, 2014 | VHX moves to version 2.0 of its publisher admin pages | VHX is a website that enables filmmakers to distribute their work directly to fans, as flexibly as possible.
The Dumbo-based company launched with an Aziz Ansari special and has since come very near to securing its millionth customer (955,9... |
| Aug 28, 2014 | VHX Updates Its Admin Panel To Make Do-It-Yourself Videos Sales Even Easier | A little more than two years ago, VHX launched a platform that is designed to allow pretty much anyone to begin selling their videos online. Now it’s making that process easier, with an update to the admin consoles of its site, providing th... |
| Jul 13, 2014 | Platform Monopolies | There’s an article in the NY Times Sunday Business Section today that lays out a very important question we have all been dancing around but will increasingly be dealing with. The article is nominally about Amazon’s fight with Hachette but ... |
| Jul 9, 2014 | BotFactory launching Kickstarter for circuitboard printer [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting funded?
Two former Googlers have $1.7 million on an offered $1.8 million equity round for The Cord Project, according to an SEC filing. We hoped it was something to do with the unbelievable number of electronics cords that sur... |
| Jun 25, 2014 | Stealth-mode home automation startup Astro raises $350K [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Astro, Inc., a stealth-mode startup, describes itself as some kind of home automation company on its LinkedIn page. The company raised $350,000 on a $1 million equity-only offer, according to an SEC filing. The filing l... |
| May 28, 2014 | Facial recognition medical advertiser raises $285K [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Williamsburg’s Hoolux Medical, a company that serves up tailored ads in hospital waiting rooms using facial recognition software, raised $285,000 in an equity round, according to the SEC.
Who’s making moves?
Educational... |
| May 7, 2014 | Ringly will sneak peek its designs on Instragram probably [Startup Roundup] | Well, it’s Spring. There’s a lot going on, or so it seems with this, likely our largest Startup Roundup yet.
Who’s getting money?
Susty Party closed a $500K equity only round, according to this blog post. The seed round was led by Radicle C... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | What VHX has learned from its ‘pay-what-you-want’ feature | VHX just released an analysis of its new pay-what-you-want feature. The online video selling platform has given publishers the option to let fans pick a range of prices to download videos (as long as that range goes no lower than $1).
The f... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | I'm looking forward to the first Netflix/Weinstein online movie premiere | 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!
Some Friday night in the not-so-distant future, N... |
| Mar 15, 2014 | Rest easy, Veronica Mars Kickstarter fans: WB will refund iTunes & Amazon purchases | 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!
After devoted Kickstarter backers of the Veronica... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | VHX is now open to anyone selling video | Online video selling platform VHX announced this week that its system is now open to any creator of video to use and sell. The announcement was made over their email list. Formerly in private beta, limited only to creators invited to be par... |
| Feb 26, 2014 | Wellness blog raises nearly $2 million [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Multichannel health and wellness site, MindBodyGreen appears to have raised roughly $1.87 million in equity, according to two separate SEC filings, made on the same day (first and second).
Stealth mode Zeppelin Group ap... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | VHX announces one-page purchasing | Update.
Technically Brooklyn linked earlier this week to a sneak peak on Tumblr where VHX showed a GIF of a purchasing screen coming out on the same page as the preview of a movie. We read this to mean that you could post something like a Y... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Maintaining High Maintenance | The New Yorker gives high praise for this web video series called High Maintenance. The episodes are short (~5min) and there are eleven episodes in all. It is about a pot dealer who rides around NYC and meets all sorts of strange and outrag... |
| Dec 4, 2013 | ToyMail and goTenna succeed in funding rounds [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
goTenna, which calls itself a hardware-software product that will connect you when you don’t have cell phone service, raised $1.8M on an oversubscribed seed equity round, according to an SEC filing. The company is accep... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | YouTube comedians use VHX to bring new film to fans: Camp Takota | Three women who made names for themselves getting laughs on YouTube have teamed up to make their first movie together, Camp Takota.
It sounds a little like Wet Hot American Summer meets The Blues Brothers meets An American Werewolf in Londo... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | VHX: Dumbo startup that launched Aziz Ansari’s online-only special raises $3.2M | When web-minded comedian Louis C.K. launched his first online-only comedy special, it was another reminder of how the distribution mechanisms are changing for creative content.
That’s a movement that VHX, a Dumbo based startup that is creat... |
| Aug 30, 2013 | VHX Raises $3.2M in Series A Financing | VHX, a New York City-based distribution platform for artists to sell videos from their websites, raised $3.2m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures with participation from existing investors Lerer Ventures, Lower... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | Funding Daily: Pandas are glorious creatures | Anyone who knows me also knows about my love of pandas. I have a panda tee-shirts, panda slippers, a panda hat, a panda wallet, a panda keychain, and a panda pillow. Qualms about revealing that information to you readers aside, you can imag... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | VHX | Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity: in the number of channels available to watch TV; the number of theaters to watch films; the number of radio stations to listen to music; the number of bookstores to buy books;... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Errplane (YC W13) launches performance monitoring and alert service for web apps - New Relic, Pingdom, Airbrake all in one | Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, has officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers need a number of different services like ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Y Combinator-Backed Errplane Launches Comprehensive Performance Monitoring And Alert Service For Web Apps | Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, has officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers need a number of different services like ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Errplane (YC W13) launches performance monitoring and alert service for web apps – New Relic, Pingdom, Airbrake all in one | Errplane, a new Y Combinator-backed service for monitoring performance, uptime and errors for any type of web application, has officially launched its service. Currently, Errplane argues, developers need a number of different services like ... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Chill Direct: A Farm System For Video Distribution | What’s the biggest hurdle to getting people to watch your film or video? Getting it in front of them in the first place. Unfortunately, your options are limited.
Chill Direct, a new service from the social-video site Chill, hopes to expand ... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Startup News: Bloomberg Wiring up NYC and Canadians Make Sweet Love to Songza | Mr. Bloomberg. (Twitter)
Time Warner Still Sucks On Friday, Mayor Bloomberg made a big move toward ing promise to expand broadband in New York. He launched ConnectNYC, a contest for small businesses that will award free fiber cable wiring (... |
| Sep 4, 2012 | Next-Generation Media Startup Bedrocket Media Ventures Raises $15 Million From NEA | Look at the number of videos being viewed online and the amount of money being thrown at them, and it’s no wonder we’re seeing a whole bunch of new media ventures. Thanks to lower costs of production and distribution, as well as the ability... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | VHX Raises $1.25 Million From Lerer Ventures And Angels To Democratize Video Distribution Online | For years, independent video producers have waited for the time when it would finally make economic sense for them to cut out the middle man and distribute their content directly to their fans. Then a funny thing happened: Louis CK sold an ... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | Start-Up News: Web Video OMG, Kickstarter Makes a Kickstarter, and Nodejitsu Doesn’t Need You but More Than 100 Start-Ups Do | The start-up week starts Wednesday:
VIDEO LAUNCH. General Assembly-based VHX.tv, launched by Vimeo alum Casey Pugh and Know Your Memester Jamie Wilkinson about a month and a half ago, is in public beta as of yesterday. The app, which create... |
| Apr 11, 2011 | VHX Wants To Be Your Video Dashboard For The Entire Internet | Launching in private beta today and founded by Casey Pugh, part of the original Vimeo team and Know Your Meme co-founder Jamie Wilkinson is VHX.tv, a site that aims to “combine the best parts of the TV experience with the best of the web.” ... |
| Mr.Manson cria plataforma para curadoria de vídeos | Wagner Martins, mais conhecido como Mr.Manson, está em uma nova empreitada na área de conteúdo e vídeos online. Na última quarta-feira ele lançou, junto com seu sócio Rafael Spoladore, o serviço, tjay.tv. Segundo Martins, o objetivo é “faze... |
