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Website5min.com
Blogblog.5min.com
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Email
Employees8
DescriptionInstructional Videos

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Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CMO
Co-Founder & CTO

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Funding

Total$12.8M
Angel, 4/07
$300k
Series A, 11/07
Spark Capital
$5M
Series B, 7/09
Globespan Capital Partners
Spark Capital
$7.5M

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5min is a user-generated instructional video site based out of Israel. Their basic philosophy is “everybody’s good at something – that’s why anyone can upload a video to share and showcase their expertise and knowledge.”

In May of 2007 the site took home 2nd place in the European focused Startup 2.0 contest. Their competitors include VideoJug, SuTree and Sclipo.

Milestones

  • Received $7.5M in Series B funding. (7/23/09)
    Posted 7/23/09 at 4:46am
  • Received $5M in Series A funding. (11/1/07)
    Posted 10/31/07 at 7:22pm
  • Received $300k in Angel funding. (4/1/07)
    Posted 9/4/07 at 1:50am
  • Ran Harnevo, Co-Founder & CEO added.
    Posted 9/4/07 at 1:49am
  • Tal Simantov, Co-Founder & CMO added.
    Posted 9/4/07 at 1:52am
  • Hanan Laschover, Co-Founder & CTO added.
    Posted 9/4/07 at 1:53am
  • Lior Levin, Marketing added.
    Posted 4/25/09 at 10:34pm

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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

Added: 3/5/09
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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

Added: 9/16/09

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5min

Website5min.com
StageLive
Tags instructional, videos, learn, video

5min believes any solution can be visually communicated in 5 minutes or less. Video creators share their knowledge is a variety of categories including arts, extreme, fashion, sports, health, tech and more. They have the option of making a textual storyboard to help viewers better understand the demonstration.

5min’s proprietary video player dubbed the “Smart Player” allows viewers to view the video in slow motion or frame by frame, zoom in and out, and more. These features come in handy while viewers try to emulate their instructor.

5min screenshot
Above: 5min Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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  1. thealarmclock.com [edit]
  2. techcrunch.com [edit]
  3. ‘How To’ Video Site 5min Raises An Extra $7.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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