| Website | bittorrent.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 19 |
| Founded | 9/04 |
| Description | Provider of filesharing software |
| Total | $40.8M |
| Series A, 9/05 DCM | $8.75M |
| Series B, 12/06 Accel Partners DCM | $25M |
| Series C, 9/08 DCM Accel Partners DAG Ventures | $7M |
BitTorrent Inc is the company founded by the creator of the algorithm of the same name. The company’s purpose to use the algorithm’s ability to transmit large quantities of data across the internet to legally sell content and help companies distribute their own content. To this end, the company sells movies, television shows, music, and software through its client, and helps other companies sell content using peer-to-peer distribution. It is also working with oem manufacturers to ensure that BitTorrent technology is built into the next generation of set-top boxes and other consumer electronics categories.
Each part of BitTorrent’s business is already served by major players. In the content sales business, iTunes is largest online reseller of not only music but also movies and television shows. However, using BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer system items bought from their store can be downloaded much faster than a comparable product bought through iTunes. Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai, EdgeCast Networks and others uses different distributed computing technique from BitTorrent to accelerate downloads. Finally, many other Web 2.0 companies are trying to integrate their technologies into consumer products. The inclusion of YouTube in the AppleTV,is just one notable example of this.
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Added: 8/7/08| Website | bittorrent.com/about/dna |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | August 16, 2007 |
| Tags | content-delivery |
BitTorrent DNA is a content delivery system for enterprise costumers seeking to disseminate large quantities of information over the internet rapidly. It seeks to use the power of a peer-to-peer system to allow companies to send software or other large data packages over the internet.
| Website | bittorrent.com/about/device |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | August 16, 2007 |
| Tags | hardware-certification |
BitTorrent provides certification services to companies that seek to ensure that their hardware is fully compliant with BitTorrent Technology.
| Website | bittorrent.com/users/adult-swim/se |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | August 16, 2007 |
| Tags | content-delivery |
Bit Torrent licenses content from major producers (mainly television and film studios) and sells it under the the Bit Torrent Entertainment Network name.
