夏尔巴数字媒体安全5美元.5 Million Financing to Power Live and On-Demand Video Touch Points Across the Enterprise
New funding to bolster video platform development, expand enterprise market footprint
红木城，加州(2017年8月7日)
夏尔巴人, 下一代供应商, live and on-demand streaming video solutions to large enterprises, today announced the completion of a $5.500万A轮融资. The round was led by Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), with participation from Rally Ventures, 现有投资者. BGV's Partner Marina Levinson and Rally Ventures' General Partner Charles Beeler will join 夏尔巴人's board of directors.
Modern global companies have embraced live and on-demand streaming video as a critical communication channel for customers, 合作伙伴生态系统, 和员工. They require a single platform that integrates with existing business systems to enable in-context video across all corporate functions, while centralizing usage data and video intelligence. 夏尔巴人 increasingly fills this need at many of the world's premier brands with its API-based video management and analytics platform.
"夏尔巴人 has built a strong reputation for consolidating internal and external video use cases under a single, extensible video system-of-record at many of the most demanding companies,K说。.C. Watson, CEO and co-founder of 夏尔巴人. "We are thrilled to receive support from seasoned business technology investors to help extend our lead in powering all video touch points across the global enterprise."
作为《百家乐软件》500强的前首席信息官, I could immediately see the value proposition 夏尔巴人's innovative technology brings to the enterprise,玛丽娜·莱文森说, BGV合伙人. "I strongly believe that 夏尔巴人 has an opportunity to build a differentiated company that delivers compelling customer time to value. 例如, its ability to support 360°/AR video provides a competitive advantage, 特别是对于销售人员, 市场营销和服务用例."
This funding round marks the latest evidence of 夏尔巴人's positioning as a new leader in the enterprise video market. Following are additional milestones achieved by the company in 2017.
- January 2017: 夏尔巴人 commenced native platform support of VR/AR/360° video. Initial customer pilots have included programs for partner training, 零售/经销商沟通, 员工市政厅.
- April 2017: 夏尔巴人 completed its acquisition of the VideoVerge platform business from Ramp Holdings, allowing 夏尔巴人 customers to integrate live and on demand video workflows into their Microsoft 365 and SharePoint productivity suites. 同样的, 过渡的VideoVerge客户, 包括李维·施特劳斯这样的公司, 泰森食品, 和基, have added core 夏尔巴人 platform capabilities such as live webcasting, 合作伙伴内容联合, 原生VR/AR/360°视频传输, 先进的观看分析.
- July 2017: 夏尔巴人 debuted its live social syndication dashboard on a live, external broadcast by a longstanding entertainment segment customer. By adding the new capability to its existing 夏尔巴人 platform, this Fortune 100 company was able to seamlessly syndicate, 控制, and analyze the experience of over 300,000 live viewers across 12 distribution channels, 包括YouTube, 抽搐, 内部网页属性. This module is now available for all 夏尔巴人 platform customers.
关于夏尔巴人
随着企业视频的普及, companies are increasingly turning to 夏尔巴人 to consolidate live video webcast and on-demand video under a single streaming system-of-record. 夏尔巴人's extensible and data-driven platform securely manages, measures and automates all streaming video touch points with customers, 合作伙伴, 和员工. Many of the world's premier companies have selected 夏尔巴人 to power their expanding digital media programs.
夏尔巴人 is privately held and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company is backed by leading institutional investors Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) and Rally Ventures.
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