Israeli Startup Aniboom has raise $4.5 million in an initial round of financing. At least that’s what TechCrunch France writer Ouriel Ohayon tells me this page says. The round was led by Israeli venture firm Evergreen.
The site has very good user generated animated videos presented in a Flash player and embeddable in other websites. My favorite Aniboom video is embedded at the end of the post (I also used this example in our previous coverage of Aniboom).
Aniboom is neck and neck with newcoming MyToons in the race to become the “YouTube of Cartoons.” Both sites are excellent, although MyToons is still in private beta.
Update: Liz Gannes comments below to let us know that this news is weeks old. Our bad.
The UI of MyToons is more “2.0″ but with $4.5 Million AniBOOM should be able to produce a killer user interface and attract a lot more quality animations.
I agree, although the quality of animation on Aniboom is really, really good.
You know this article is to let folks know TechCrunch France exists, right?
tc’s past two stories from israel were both in the cartoon/animation fields – is israel a heavy toon country, just like most of asia is?
i like aniboom – looks like it’s something
Well, I think mytoons is gonna have a hard time competing aniboom after they raised these amount of money. Mytoons is a new website, aniboom is allready about 5 months in the air. They are gonna need a killer marketing team and uniqe strategy to succed. I don’t see that happing.
This is a very cool site!
wow, im gonna spend so many hours on AniBOOM. I hope my boss wont catch me
Youtube’s technology with Flash video is a commodity now. Thus, the video content production has nothing to do with hi-tech, and hi-tech VC funded model is not applicable here. This almost as stupid as to go pitch to a VC to start a new Hollywood studio, and it’s doubly stupid to actually fund it.
3D is Back. As a RqTect I love 3D.
$4.5 Mil for what? I could make a site to host Animations For $20,000-50,000 a year.
Hehehe, that’s a great video you’ve embedded in this post. I especially like the name he’s attributed the copyright to. For those of you unaware, “Eesa” is the name of Jesus in ancient Hindu texts and in the Quran.
Very clever animation.
@RqTect: $20-50k/year? That sounds a bit optimistic.
If you want to actually provide your services to a wide audience, consider that you’d need a full-time designer, 1-2 developers, maybe 1-2 server admins, and not to mention bandwidth costs. This is of course, an optimistic estimate.
So, while with $20-50k you may be able to get a video service off the ground, I doubt you would be able to continue running it on that amount. Not unless you’re an uber designer/developer/sysadmin, with underworld connections allowing you the opportunity to plug into the Internet backbone for free.
The content of AniBOOM is great. I like thumbnails with short info.
Web design, however, is kind of cheap and not impressive at all.
Usability is also not perfect. Why don’t they occupy front page with these previews only? This is what interesting there, not news about themselves (which take more than half of the page).
Hey Mike,
We did a profile on AniBOOM and broke the news on its funding a couple weeks ago over on NewTeeVee: http://newteeve.../02/08/aniboom/. Check it out if you want some more detail.
Liz
Great googily moogily. I have now found my newest timewaster on the internet. With any luck, I’ll actually create something watchable.
Great video with great animation.
Some pretty considerable talent behind that video, if a bit grotesque.
I am not very optimistic about Aniboom or Mytoon.
http://webinsid...artoons-in.html