Vilynx
Vilynx increases engagement, efficiency, and insight with leading products for Publishers in the digital world. They make videos smarter and work harder for publishers/media with machine learning technology. Engage your audiences with video personalization. We add rich metadata to enable search and social sharing. We change the way people watch online video content by making it instantly discoverable. It automatically generates a grid of 5-second clips for videos of any length, this grid serves as a window into the video, providing a quick overview of the video. Vilynx’s technology has been tested and validated in different vertical markets with amazing results: video views (click-throughs) have increased by as much as 3x and viewing time has increased as much as 6x. And behind the scenes is Vilynx’s comprehensive data analytics which will change the online video industry. Vilynx provides APIs to develop dashboards that deliver information about how viewers consume videos, including which portions of the video have the most views and which are not getting attention. Thus Vilynx delivers a strong vertical solution for media and entertainment (digital content) that provides extremely relevant and unique information to maximize audience engagement and increase ad revenue. Vilynx is poised to revolutionize the online video industry as no one else can provide this kind of technology today.
Vilynx
Vilynx increases engagement, efficiency, and insight with leading products for Publishers in the digital world. They make videos smarter and work harder for publishers/media with machine learning technology. Engage your audiences with video personalization. We add rich metadata to enable search and social sharing. We change the way people watch online video content by making it instantly discoverable. It automatically generates a grid of 5-second clips for videos of any length, this grid serves as a window into the video, providing a quick overview of the video. Vilynx’s technology has been tested and validated in different vertical markets with amazing results: video views (click-throughs) have increased by as much as 3x and viewing time has increased as much as 6x. And behind the scenes is Vilynx’s comprehensive data analytics which will change the online video industry. Vilynx provides APIs to develop dashboards that deliver information about how viewers consume videos, including which portions of the video have the most views and which are not getting attention. Thus Vilynx delivers a strong vertical solution for media and entertainment (digital content) that provides extremely relevant and unique information to maximize audience engagement and increase ad revenue. Vilynx is poised to revolutionize the online video industry as no one else can provide this kind of technology today.
TL;DR
What they do: ML-driven short video previews, smart thumbnails, metadata and analytics for publishers and consumer apps
Key products: Automatic 5-second video previews, smart thumbnails, video metadata, consumption analytics, consumer apps (mobile, web, connected TV)
Funding / exit: Raised Series A; later acquired by Apple
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Video discovery, engagement and analytics for publishers/media
Industry
Media / Video technology
Funding Track Record
Public profiles list Series A as last disclosed round; some databases obfuscate specific amounts.
Investor Signal
“Criteria Venture Tech; Kibo Ventures; Ridgewood Capital”