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.
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.
I wonder if I could also watch Baseball with Qik over my mobile, this would be cool.
Mikey likes it!
Very cool!
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!!!!!
Qik is awesome, hope to god Apple provides video streaming into the 3G iPhone, then I’d be in heaven.
The best thing Qik has going for it in marketing terms is some high profile users, Scoble and Kevin Rose to name a few.
Would you pay cash for this service?
Would you use it if there were ads on it?
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
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.
@9, Like Adobe didn’t “let” youtube happen? Their real technology is on the back end, not the front end.
wow only 3 million. just shows streaming media has become a lot cheaper in this day and age.
At least it is good to note that the live mobile video streaming start getting funding.
hey…theres more to this than a Flash player…stay tuned
Nice idea for my iPhone.