ViVu, an online video conferencing platform, has raised $3 million in Series A funding led by Inventus Capital Partners, with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Quest Venture Partners and entrepreneur Bill Carrico participating. The company says that the new financing will be used for sales and marketing efforts.
ViVu’s “video as a service” lets anyone create a live video webcast that can be used for online meetings and events, sales presentations, demos or training sessions. ViVu’s cloud-based technology can be enabled via a PC, Mac or smartphone and provides an auditorium like-view within the browser (see above) making it ideal for large conferences.
ViVu’s platform also featured a chat feature and integration with the Twitter stream, letting organizers pull in Tweets related to the subject matter of a video conference. ViVu will save all video, slides and conversations, letting users access the files at any time. And ViVu will provider users will analytic regarding participant’s means of access, network domain, and time spent in the session.
ViVu faces competition from several other startups in the video conferencing space, including TokBox and TinyChat.
That has to be the best looking bunch of employees I’ve ever seen.
nice set of employees indeed but do they real belong to a working group ha ha ha
There is ooVoo too in the same space.
Interesting to see this development. I see though that their product is not available outside of the US. Why is that? Is this likely to change? I’m UK-based and would be very interested in trialing it.
ViVu works throughout the world; the trials are currently being limited to the US.
Yes, I’ve also used ooVoo as a tool, but this seems much more robust.
marketing a dumb name like vivu.tv combine that with an awful logo that looks like fisher price? users dont want to video conference much or we would see alot more use of it.
which is why they have raised money to spend on marketing obviously…
…great to see the Vivu team get some $$ – great guys and a really cool technology
I think Vivu has its competition sighted with DimDim and Webex . TokBox and TinyChat are similar to the stint live.yahoo and ustream.
Just tried it out with 3-4 other people in a conference. Really, REALLY, bad. Speaker/Mic echoing was a nightmare and at one point we got an alert saying “The Vivu Encoder has crashed”.
Hubert,
We really appreciate your time in trialing our product. We don’t have an echo canceller yet. We recommend using a headset or a USB echo AEC enabled speaker phone (look for iPevo products as a starter) for effective communications. Also the newer laptops feature an array microphone with echo cancellation, which would work fine too.
We also fixed the encoder crash problem. Thanks for reporting it. For all other issues, please reach us out at support@vivu.tv
Interesting that some of the people are participating in the above call twice… You’d think they could at least find enough unique pictures to paste together to create a marketing piece…
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