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Websiteflingo.tv
Twitter@flingotv
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Emailinfo@flingo.tv
Employees
Founded11/08

Offices

San Francisco, USA
164 Townsend St. #12
San Francisco, CA, 94110
USA

People

VP/Co-Founder
CEO/Co-Founder
CTO/Co-Founder

Funding

TOTAL $8M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $8M
Series A, 2/12
August Capital
$7M
Series A, 5/12
Mark Cuban
Gary Lauder
$1M

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Flingo

Flingo is a Smart TV apps publishing company, co-founded in 2008 by early employees of BitTorrent and based in San Francisco, CA, with a portfolio of applications and platform technologies embedded in the central processing unit (CPU) of Smart TVs. Flingo publishes more Smart TV apps than any other company with over 70 apps available on 15 million screens, in 118 countries worldwide. Its SyncApps platform enables interactive television and social television by transforming a one-way TV broadcast into a multilateral, interactive conversation. Within a few seconds, Flingo identifies what is on the TV screen and delivers relevant content and sharing capabilities directly to the viewer’s Smart TV interface or a nearby smartphone. This provides consumers the ability to interact with their shows, share their favorite moments, and exert unparalleled control over their viewing experience.

The company was originally founded to help content developers including Fox, A+E Networks, Showtime, Warner Bros., CBS, Samsung, LG, Vizio, and Sanyo create apps, which is still part of its core business. In February 2012, Flingo announced a $7 million Series A investment from August Capital. In May 2012, Flingo added additional investors, closing at $8 million, including entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Gary Lauder. The funding has helped Flingo expand its presence with Smart TV and device manufacturers worldwide, building on its current partnerships with leading manufacturers.

Flingo was incorporated as Free Stream Media Corp. in 2008, a company founded by Ashwin Navin, David Harrison, Alvir Navin, Omar Zennadi and Todd Johnson.

Milestones

  • Check
    Flingo added Alvir Navin as VP/Co-Founder. (11/1/08)
    Posted 2/1/12 at 4:17pm
  • Check
    Flingo added David Harrison as CTO/Co-Founder. (2/1/09)
    Posted 2/1/12 at 4:17pm
  • Check
    Flingo added Ashwin Navin as CEO/Co-Founder. (11/1/08)
    Posted 10/13/10 at 9:58pm
  • Dollar
    Flingo received $1M in Series A funding. (5/2/12)
    Posted 5/2/12 at 6:10pm via finsmes.com
  • Dollar
    Flingo received $7M in Series A funding. (2/7/12)
    Posted 2/7/12 at 7:12pm via finsmes.com
  • Check
    Flingo — Flingo added Alvir Navin as VP/Co-Founder (11/1/08)
    Posted 8/7/12 at 11:54am

Videos

Above:

Flingo Apps Add Interactivity To Smart TVs (Engineering TV)

Added: 8/13/12
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Flingo on NBC Bay Area Tech Now

Added: 8/13/12
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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

Added: 12/7/12
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CES 2013 Interview With Flingo Co-founder Ashwin Navin About Samba & The Future Of TV

Added: 1/22/13

Screenshots

Flingo screenshot
Above: Flingo Social TV
Uploaded: 5/24/12
Flingo screenshot
Above: Flingo Screenshot -- #2
Uploaded: 8/7/12

Products

Fling

Websiteflingo.org
Launch Date2008

Flingo also developed Fling in 2008, which allows a user to send a video from a website or user’s Windows or OSX desktop to a Vizio TV or a Western Digital Live Plus HD Media Player. Fling can also be used to “fling” from websites, wikis, blogs, forums, emails, and tweets to TVs or other Flingo-enabled media devices.

SyncApps

Websiteflingo.tv
Launch DateJanuary, 2012

In January 2012, Flingo launched SyncApps to enable one-click sharing on social networks like Facebook and Twitter for a more engaging TV experience. Based on the company’s proprietary approach to an Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) platform, SyncApps brings relevant content and sharing capabilities directly to the viewer’s first and second screens, such as a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, while watching live TV. SyncApps also directly interacts with linear broadcast television so cable TV and online content can be accessed from one platform. More information on SyncApps can be found at http://flingo.tv/acr-syncapps.html.

Sources

  1. Flingo Raises $7M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  2. Flingo Receives $1M in Series A (finsmes.com) [edit]
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