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Akimbo

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Akimbo is a white label video solution. It includes an advertising system and “supports multiple business models including ad-supported, transactional, subscription, download-to-own, download-to-burn, pay-per-minute, gift cards and account credits.”

Milestones

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  Hit the deadpool. (5/22/08)
  Posted
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  Akimbo received $8M in Series D funding. (2/29/08)
  Posted 2/27/08 at 7:40pm
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  Akimbo received $15.5M in Series C funding. (6/1/06)
  Posted 11/3/07 at 4:13am
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  Akimbo received $12M in Series B funding. (7/1/04)
  Posted 11/3/07 at 4:14am
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  Akimbo received $4.2M in Seed funding. (6/1/03)
  Posted 11/3/07 at 4:15am
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  Akimbo added Peter Chantel as Chief Financial Officer.
  Posted 11/3/07 at 3:59am
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  Akimbo added Ed Lee as Senior VP of Business Development.
  Posted 11/3/07 at 4:00am
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  Akimbo added Andreas Stavropoulos as Board.
  Posted 11/3/07 at 4:01am
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  Akimbo added Neil Goldberg as COO.
  Posted 11/3/07 at 3:59am
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  Akimbo added Thomas Frank as CEO and President.
  Posted 11/3/07 at 3:58am
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  Akimbo added Frank M. Creer as Board.
  Posted 11/3/07 at 4:02am
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  Akimbo added William Randolph Hearst III as Board.
  Posted 2/6/08 at 6:39pm
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  Akimbo added Phil Sakakihara as CTO.
  Posted 3/18/08 at 1:11pm
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  Akimbo added Brant J. Smith as Director of Marketing.
  Posted 3/18/08 at 1:11pm
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  Akimbo added Gilles de Bordeaux as Director of Quality Assurance.
  Posted 3/30/09 at 1:43pm

Videos

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Traffic Analytics

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Sources

1. blogs.zdnet.com [edit]
2. findarticles.com [edit]
3. blogs.zdnet.com [edit]
4. Akimbo, failed video distribution company, tries again, raises $8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]