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April 9, 2008

Qik Raises $3M for Live Mobile Streaming

Jason Kincaid

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As rumored earlier this week, live mobile video streaming service Qik has raised $3 million in Series B funding from Marc Benioff, Arjun Gupta, and George Garrick.

Qik allows users to stream video from their camera-enabled phones to a number of platforms including TV, gaming consoles, and the web itself. Currently only a subset of Nokia phones work with Qik, although the company has plans to support all smart and Java-enabled phones.

Competitors include Mogulus and Kyte. Qik has raised a total of $4M to date. The company recently joined up with Justin.tv to provide that lifecasting service with mobile capabilities.

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  1. Michael B

    April 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    That’s cool, but I probably won’t most likely need it, you can just email videos from a phone to your own email and then host it.

  2. Thilo

    April 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    I wonder if I could also watch Baseball with Qik over my mobile, this would be cool.

  3. Alex

    April 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    Mikey likes it!

    Very cool!

  4. LiveCrunch

    April 9th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    OMG I just told my friend yesterday IF i had money the mobile apps are way to go, and I told him my first app would be video streaming via phone!!!!

    And 24 hours later I see this post makes me cry!!!!!!!!!!! because i don’t have money for it but have sweet a** idea!!!!!

  5. Don Wilson

    April 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    Qik is awesome, hope to god Apple provides video streaming into the 3G iPhone, then I’d be in heaven.

  6. christofr

    April 9th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    The best thing Qik has going for it in marketing terms is some high profile users, Scoble and Kevin Rose to name a few.

  7. Erik

    April 9th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    Would you pay cash for this service?

    Would you use it if there were ads on it?

  8. Vikram

    April 9th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    Hmm.. I wonder if any of them are using the code that I published here:

    http://today.java.net/pub/a/to.....va-me.html

    If you are, I should let you know that the code is copyrighted!

    Vikram

  9. AdamKapp

    April 9th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Unfortunately these mobile companies will die when flash lite finally gets its act together.. I feel sorry for that 3 mil investment. Bye bye.

    Do you really think Adobe is going to let this happen?

    No.

  10. Frank Church

    April 9th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    @9, Like Adobe didn’t “let” youtube happen? Their real technology is on the back end, not the front end.

  11. diystartupnews.com

    April 10th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    wow only 3 million. just shows streaming media has become a lot cheaper in this day and age.

  12. web hosting

    April 10th, 2008 at 3:19 am

    At least it is good to note that the live mobile video streaming start getting funding.

  13. mark

    April 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am

    hey…theres more to this than a Flash player…stay tuned

  14. Elections photos

    April 16th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    Nice idea for my iPhone.

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