- Pandora TV
Infobox_Company
company_name = Pandora TV
company_logo=
company_type = Private
foundation =October 2004
location_city = Seoul
location_country = South Korea
industry =Internet video sharing
key_people = Peter Kim, Founder and CEO
Samuel Lee, COO
num_employees = 120 (2008)
homepage = [http://www.pandora.tv www.pandora.tv]Pandora TV is a
video sharing website that hostsuser-generated content . Founded in October 2004, Pandora TV is the first video sharing website in the world to attach advertisment to user-submitted video clips and to provide unlimited storage space for users to upload.As of January 2008, the site was visited by 20 million monthly
unique visitors . It has over 2.5 million video inventory and 2.5 billion monthly pageviews.Pandora TV has been ranked as the most viewed user-generated video sharing site in Korea since 2005 and it is ranked within top 15 sites in all Korean websites.(March 2007) The site is available in Korean, and since April 2008, in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
Pandora TV raised over $16 million from
Silicon Valley venture capital firms - [http://www.altosvc.com/ Altos Ventures] and [http://www.dcm.com/ DCM] - in two consecutive funding rounds 2006 and 2007, which represents the largest foreign investment made so far on any Korean Internet start-upcite news |url =http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/04/02/korean-youtube-competitor-pandora-tv-gets-10-million-from-dcm|title = DCM invests in Pandora TV |work = www.dmwmedia.com | date = 2007-04-02 |accessdate =
2007-04-27 |language = English ] .
Company History
*October 2004 - Launched video sharing portal Pandora TV
*October 2005 - Launched iCF ad format
*October 2005 - Changed the corporate name from Lettee.com to Pandora TV Co.
* June 2006 - Completed Series A financing of over $6 million from a Silicon Valley-based investment group led by Altos Ventures
* April 2007 - Completed Series B financing of $10 million led by DCM (formerly known as Doll Capital Management)
*December 2007 - Selected as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Startups in 2007 by Red Herring [cite web |title= Global Top 100 Tech Startups 2007 Finalists (Red Herring)|url=http://www.herringevents.com/global07/redherring100_finalists_name.html |date=2007-12 ]
*December 2007 - Launched Pandora TV Global Beta service
* March 2008 - Acquired KM Player, a premium video player solution
* April 2008 - Officially launched Pandora TV global service offered in four languages (English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean)References
External links
* [http://www.pandora.tv Pandora TV]
* [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php KMPlayer]
* [http://blog.pandora.tv/eng/ Pandora TV Blog]
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