Globes is reporting that RayV has raised $8M in Series B from Accel Partners.
While the company has been in stealth mode, and its site offers little information, sources have confirmed that RayV is developing a P2P live broadcasting offering. Evidentially, users will be able to create and broadcast video playlists at “high video quality”. Similar to Joost, RayV will require the installation of a client application.
To date, the company has been funded mainly by Ron Zuckerman who is among the founders of Magma Venture Partners (formerly Magnum Ventures). Zuckerman also co-founded Precise (acquired by Veritas) and Sapiens.
“While the company has been in stealth mode”
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3ARayV.com
The google bot doesn’t play stealth mode. You can download the beta client here.
http://update.rayv.com/viewer/.....sion/setup
I of course am running Linux at work, so I have no idea if it works. For one thing, the windows only .exe is a very bad sign for the digg nation of users. It screams legacy!
Darn it, I got the word press filter treatment, Let me try again
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“While the company has been in stealth mode”
google.com/search?q=site%3ARayV.com
The google bot doesn’t play stealth mode. You can download the beta client here.
update.rayv.com/viewer/getnewestversion/setup
I of course am running Linux at work, so I have no idea if it works. For one thing, the windows only .exe is a very bad sign for the digg nation of users. It screams legacy!
All p2p is evil and must be extinguished!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
Breitbart.tv uses RayV for their live broadcasts
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=1&live=1
Other Israeli startups doing it:
http://tvdotv.com/ “P2P software for live video streaming allowing live TV broadcasts to be received from other peers instead of a centralized server.”
http://www.koala-te.com/
and
possibly http://www.boxee.tv
Obviously an important area.
Other Israeli startups doing it:
http://tvdotv.com/ “P2P software for live video streaming allowing live TV broadcasts to be received from other peers instead of a centralized server.”
http://www.koala-te.com/
and
possibly http://www.boxee.tv
Obviously an important area.
Other Israeli startups doing it:
http://www.tvdotv.com “P2P software for live video streaming allowing live TV broadcasts to be received from other peers instead of a centralized server.”
http://www.koala-te.com
and
possibly http://www.boxee.tv
Obviously an important area.
How is RayV different form sopcast and tvu player ?
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
It’s different because I was receiving UDP data from *30* different hosts, and the video w-as-st-ill-jit–t-ery. Literally unwatchable.
There were 4 main hosts that were trying to get data to me, and I was on a 100Mbit direct MAEWest connection. Still, didn’t work.
RayV.exe was 36MB, using 20-60% of the CPU.
It’s nice to have it appear “in” the browser, but there are plenty of other (working) options to choose from in this space.
Accel ain’t dumb, though, so there’s likely some good angle here.
DR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN here,
One wonders if Rayv is producing the technology to ultimately compete with Youtube.
DR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN
Sweden.
There are plenty of companies successfully doing this like Network Foundation Technologies.
Check out their indie music channel, VIRV TV:
http://www.virv.tv