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| Dec 4, 2013 | Former Battery Ventures Partner Brian O’Malley Joins Accel’s Early Stage Team | Accel Partners has announced that Brian O’Malley will join the venture capital firm as a partner on its early stage team. O’Malley was formerly a general partner at Battery Ventures, where he led its seed and early stage practices. Other re... |
| May 8, 2013 | Once-Hot App Viddy Returns $18 Million To Investors And Prepares A Final Attempt To Turn Around | Last summer, social video app Viddy was in a much different place. It was in a battle to be the "Instagram of Video" alongside competitor SocialCam, and its number of users surged higher every day.
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| May 8, 2013 | Once-Hot App Viddy Returns $18 Million To Investors And Prepares A Final Attempt To Turn Around | Last summer, social video app Viddy was in a much different place. It was in a battle to be the "Instagram of Video" alongside competitor SocialCam, and its number of users surged higher every day.
Viddy used that momentum to rais... |
| May 7, 2013 |
Viddy In Recap, To Return Some Funds, Says Report
| A report Tuesday from AllthingsD says that once-hot Los Angeles startup Viddy is recapitalizing, and will return $18M of the $30M it raised a year ago. The report says that investors New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures, and Goldman S... |
| May 1, 2013 | Viddy: That $2.86M SEC Filing Is Not A Fundraise — It’s An Internal Share Conversion | Yesterday, Viddy filed a regulatory document with the US Securities and Exchange Comission that seemed to indicate that the Los Angeles-based video sharing startup had raised $2.86 million in new funds.
While cash infusions are always good ... |
| Mar 6, 2013 | Vine Takes Early Command In The Mobile Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others Despite Low Adoption | Editor’s note: Robert J. Moore is the co-founder of RJMetrics, a company whose software helps online businesses make smarter decisions using their own data. He also previously served on the Investment Team of Insight Venture Partners. Follo... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | Viddy Updates Its Mobile Video App With 30-Second Videos, New Filters, And Discovery Tools | Mobile video startup Viddy* is launching a new iOS app, which it hopes will help users create and discover more interesting videos. To do so, it’s doubling the length that videos can be, and giving users more tools to spruce them up. It’s a... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Social video startup Viddy lays off a third of its staff | Social video startup Viddy has certainly seen better days.
Viddy is apparently planning to reduce its operations and marketing workforce by cutting 12 positions (or a third of its total employees), reports TechCrunch. The news comes just we... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Social video startup Viddy lays off a third of its staff | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social video startup Viddy has certainly seen better days.
Viddy is apparently planning to reduce its operations and marketing workforc... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | After CEO Departure, Mobile Video Startup Viddy Cuts Staff By More Than A Third | It was less than a year ago that Viddy was flying high, quoting massive user growth and raising a massive $30 million round of funding from NEA, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, and Battery Ventures. Now the company is cutting back, as it se... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Viddy CEO canned for losing cred to Vine, reportedly turning down huge Twitter offer | 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!
Viddy CEO and cofounder Brett O’Brien has been ou... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | Streamweaver Nabs $1.3M From Former Facebook Chief & Others To Bring The Split-Screen Experience To Mobile Video | You may have thought you’d seen every permutation of the video-sharing app, given the glut of new startups scrambling to become the “Instagram of Video,” or some derivation thereof. There’s Viddy, Socialcam, Round, Threadlife, Klip, Tout, o... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Watch Out! New Video Law Lets Netflix Share What You’re Viewing | It passed the House, the Senate, and just before the new year, the President signed it into law. In a significant shift in video privacy – online video rental companies can now share information about the movies you rent or buy. As you migh... |
| Oct 21, 2012 | Post-Facebook IPO: What VCs Are Looking For In The Next Great Social Network | Editor’s note: Joe Medved, a partner at SoftBank Capital, focuses on early-stage consumer and enterprise mobile, social marketing, gaming, and commerce investments. He serves on the boards of BestVendor, CrowdTwist, Jump Ramp Games and Thum... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Viddy rolls out an API for its white-hot social video service | 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!
Capitalizing on a successful past few months, Vid... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | Top Trends of 2012: Social Video Apps (Warning: Seedy Content!) | Continuing our review of the first half of 2012, we look at an emerging product type that became popular this year: social video apps. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy, each vying to be the breakout app. But at least one o... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | What’s the next billion dollar idea? | A couple of months ago, Facebook acquired the wildly popular photo sharing social network, Instagram, for a cool US$1-billion. Popular yes, profitable? Nope. With zero revenue to speak of, hacker-CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw something in Instagr... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | What’s the next billion dollar idea? | A couple of months ago, Facebook acquired the wildly popular photo sharing social network, Instagram, for a cool US$1-billion. Popular yes, profitable? Nope. With zero revenue to speak of, hacker-CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw something in Instagr... |
| May 29, 2012 | Viddy Updates iOS App To Add Custom Cover Art, Faster Uploads, And Local Language Support | Mobile video sharing service Viddy has been busy adding new features to its iOS app, which will now provide more customization options for content that users upload. Along with the latest app update, Viddy has also rolled out a new web expe... |
| May 17, 2012 | RWW Recommends: The Best Social Video App | Sometimes less is more. At least, that’s how this social video app works. The key to this is in its limited ability to choose. Think about going to the grocery store: When there are 12 types of ketchup to choose from, everything can quickly... |
| May 15, 2012 | The Timeline Bump: Khan Academy And Quora Latest To Integrate With Facebook’s Open Graph | Last month, Facebook drove 160 million visitors and 1.1 billion visits to third-party apps, an increase of 100 million visitors and 780 million visits from the month prior. And that’s just mobile, it doesn’t even account for canvas apps or ... |
| May 15, 2012 | Bieber joins Viddy, posts hot, topless video… of himself | 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!
Oh, boyfriend. Pop superstar Justin Bieber has jo... |
| May 11, 2012 |
Viddy Confirms $30M Funding
| Looking to become the next Instagram--but for video, instead--Los Angeles-based Viddy has just added $30M in funding to its warchest, confirming today reports that it has scored a huge new funding for the mobile video sharing site. Viddy sa... |
| May 8, 2012 | Report: Photo & Video Now The Fastest Growing Mobile App Category | Ever since Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, the search for the next “Instagram of [insert app category here]” has been on. One area many pundits have focused on in this context is video and according to the latest data from m... |
| May 8, 2012 | Will Viddy (and other video apps) kill the YouTube star? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
While everyone is trying to predict which video sharing app will be the true “Instagram for video,” the massive surge in popularity for... |
| May 8, 2012 | Will Viddy (and other video apps) kill the YouTube star? | While everyone is trying to predict which video sharing app will be the true “Instagram for video,” the massive surge in popularity for video apps could also become a problem for the online video mainstay YouTube.
As consumers move towards ... |
| May 3, 2012 | Why “Instagram For Video” Apps Will Go Big | The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That’s because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two lea... |
| May 1, 2012 | Facebook Helps Third-Party Mobile Apps Grow Today…So It Can Monetize Their Content With Ads Tomorrow | The fundamental misunderstanding of Facebook’s mobile prospects is that it’s trying to compete with iOS and Android for in-app payment revenue via HTML5. It’s not. What Facebook really wants is the content produced by apps on every platform... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More | The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam, the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2012 class, is hustling hard for the lead. The company has... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Viddy Is Raising $30M At A $370M Valuation | Someone wise once said “If Instagram for video were to happen it would look nothing like Instagram” but, because it was on Twitter, I briefly saw that tweet before it got lost in the ether and now I can’t find it, dammit. But whoever said t... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Viddy adds 5.5M users in 11 days, signs on celebrity investors and partners | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Fresh after receiving a vote of confidence from Silicon Valley venture firms and rocketing to fame through Facebook, social video appli... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Now That’s An Investor List: Viddy Backed By Biz Stone, Shakira, And Jay-Z’s Roc Nation | Right after racing to the top of the App Store charts, Viddy just announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a long list of celebrities — not just tech celebrities, but also the kind that non-techies have heard of.
H... |
| Apr 23, 2012 |
Viddy Adds Celebrities To Investor Roster
| Venice-based Viddy, the developer of a mobile app used to share videos over social networks, has added a number of celebrities to its list of investors. The firm--which just raised a $6M venture round in February--apparently has added celeb... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | With Help From Facebook Timeline, Viddy Becomes Top Free iPhone App | With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there’s an ongoing race to apply Instagram’s wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startups vying to claim the “Instagram for Vide... |
| Apr 12, 2012 | Social video app Viddy hot on Facebook, adds 300k users in a day | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Above: Facebook's Sam Lessin using Viddy
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Hang on to your seats, kids. An application for shooting and sharing p... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Facebook: Video Apps Getting a Big Boost From Timeline And Open Graph | Facebook today revealed statistics from a variety of video apps that have integrated with the new Timeline interface through the Open Graph API. According to the performance numbers out of the likes of VEVO, Viddy, and DailyMotion, video ap... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Nike, Foursquare, VEVO Launch Facebook Timeline Apps, 3000 Others Already Have | If your company doesn’t have a Facebook Timeline app yet, you’re late to the party. 3,000 Timeline apps have spawned since Facebook launched the platform 3 months ago, and today Foursquare, VEVO, The Onion, Fandango, BandPage, and more big ... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Gnzo Is Instagram For Video And A Flashy Multi-Video Viewer In One | Gnzo, the video startup that made its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010 (it was called Gunzoo then), has its first consumer-oriented product ready. Named after the Japan-based maker itself, Gnzo (pronounced gun-zou) is an iOS ap... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Viddy Raises $6M in Series A Financing | Viddy, a Venice, CA-based mobile social video application, has raised $6m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Greycroft Ventures and Qualcomm.
The company intends to use the new capital to a... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | LA-based Viddy steals $6M from Silicon Valley VCs for social video | 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!
Social video startup Viddy has raised its first r... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | From T-Pain To $6 Million In New Funding: Viddy Attempts To Become The “Instagram Of Video” | People really like Instagram. Founder Kevin Systrom recently appeared in a Best Buy Super Bowl ad paying tribute to mobile innovators, a testament to how far its come with a team of six. (Over 15 million users-far.) While Instagram is aweso... |
| Feb 7, 2012 |
Viddy Sees $6M
| Venice, California-based Viddy, a developer of social video sharing applications for mobile phones, has raised $6M in a new funding round. The round was led by Battery Ventures, and also included Qualcomm and Greycroft Ventures. Viddy is he... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Yo’ mamma loves the GLMPS video-photo hybrid app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The line between photos and videos is blurred with a new iPhone app called GLMPS.
Photos snapped with GLMPS include a five second clip ... |