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Boxee Lands $4 Million
Zatz Not Funny! —
... originally told the Boxee team I was going to pass on this news, that the typical end-user isn’t so concerned with company financing. However, as you can see, I obviously changed my mind. As a refresher, Boxee software is based on the open-source XBMC platform and enables a wide variety of media playback, local files and web video, plus adds a layer of social interactivity.
There are a few things which make this initial $4 million investment notable. Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital must believe there’s plenty of room for ...
Boxee
A VC —
I wrote a post about our most recent investment, Boxee, today on the Union Square Ventures blog. Boxee founder and CEO Avner Ronen wrote a post on the Boxee blog about the investment. I encourage you to click on those links and read all about Boxee. You can also click here and see what people are saying about boxee on twitter right now.
But for those who aren't going to do that and still want to know what Boxee is, I call it the "firefox of the media center software sector". That's my view anyway. Here's a ~ 2 min video that shows Boxee in ...
Will Boxee’s Social Stance Make it Stick?
SocialTimes.com —
... , the media center solution that aggregates your content as well as content from across various web and other media services, has raised $4 million in its first round of financing, led by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. While the concept of Boxee isn’t entirely new, the fresh stance of near-total media aggregation coupled with multiple social networking interfaces makes Boxee an enticing new product in this growing marketplace. ...
Congrats to Boxee
OurielOhayon —
... They just raised a nice round from USVP and Spark. When i met Avner, the CEO they had just received their term sheet and of course he did not disclose the identity of the investors. But knowing Fred Wilson's habit to blog about things he's going to invest in i had a feeling it was USVP. I had a great time with Avner and his partner. I really wish them a lot of success. Boxee has R&D based in Israel. I wish an Israeli VC did this round since the team is mainly israeli but i don't think they lost on the way to fund raising :) ...
What it Means to be a "Social" Media Center: Boxee, Apple TV and Square Connect
O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone —
... If done wrong, or poorly integrated, the experience becomes a bit like the Radio Shack 100-in-1; novel, but not compelling and certainly not engaging. After all, the typical consumer (and even most early adopters) is not willing to perform unnatural acts to improve the way they experience media. This stuff just has to work (and work together). Someday soon. Until then, what follows are thoughts on each vendor's offering. Boxee Fred Wilson (the VC who backed Twitter) has a good explanation for why he chose to invest in Boxee, but suffice it to say, they are not lacking for ...
Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee
A VC —
... Boxee renders the content it finds on the web in a way that optimizes it for the device it runs on (in Boxee's case that is the TV). Boxee is also an RSS reader optimized for the 10 ft experience. Content owners may initially see broswers and RSS readers optimized for TV viewing as disruptive and threatening, but just like mobile browsers are the friend of content owners, so are TV browsers. And Boxee is by far the best TV browser out there for a host of reasons that I outlined in this post when we made our investment in Boxee. ...
