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Bitmovin (YC S15) — Powers OTT online video providers with video developer tools

Bitmovin has been a first mover in almost every significant development in online video, from building and deploying the world’s first (and fastest) commercial adaptive streaming (MPEG-DASH/HLS) HTML5 Player, to being the first to achieve 100x realtime encoding speeds in the cloud. Bitmovin provides HEVC as well as VP9 live streaming with 60FPS and 4K resolution, and built the first containerized video encoding solution with Docker and Kubernetes.

Bitmovin is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Powers OTT online video providers with video developer tools. The founders listed are Stefan Lederer (Founder/CEO), Christian Timmerer (Founder/CIO), Christopher Mueller (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, June 4, 2015).

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Bitmovin

New accelerator entry · 2015-06-04 · the record

Summer 2015
batch
145
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2015
Announced2015-06-04
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size145
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
SectorsDeveloper Tools, Video
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttp://bitmovin.com

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Bitmovin has been a first mover in almost every significant development in online video, from building and deploying the world’s first (and fastest) commercial adaptive streaming (MPEG-DASH/HLS) HTML5 Player, to being the first to achieve 100x realtime encoding speeds in the cloud. Bitmovin provides HEVC as well as VP9 live streaming with 60FPS and 4K resolution, and built the first containerized video encoding solution with Docker and Kubernetes. Bitmovin products are completely in-house developed, easy and fast to integrate and highly customizable. In combination with our great support, documentation and SLAs, this is a true enterprise offering. To find out more about Bitmovin’s video infrastructure solutions, or about any individual products, contact sales@bitmovin.com, or visit our website: bitmovin.com

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