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General Information

Websitehowcast.com
Blogblog.howcast.com
Twitter@Howcast
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Emailpr@howcast.com
Employees
Founded2/08

Offices

New York City
518 Broadway 2nd Floor
New York City, NY, 10012
USA

People

Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and VP of Production

Former People

Co-founder and COO
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Director, Business Development & Legal Affairs

Funding

TOTAL $11M
FUNDING TOTAL $11M
Series A, 2/08
Tudor Investments
$8M
Series A, 10/08
Tim Armstrong
Jason Hirschhorn
Gil Elbaz
$2M
Series B, 10/09
$1M

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Howcast

Howcast is an online video company that empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how.

From “How to Paint a Wall” and “How to Build a Snow Cave” to “How to Smart Mob”, Howcast streams tens of millions of videos every month across its multi-platform distribution network. With over one million downloads on the iPhone and a rapidly growing number of Google Android app users, Howcast is the #1 instructional content mobile application in the world. Howcast also offers an array of powerful, targeted, easy-to-implement video solutions for content providers, site publishers, and marketers.

Launched in 2008, Howcast has offices in San Francisco and New York.

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Videos

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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

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Products

Howcast

Websitehowcast.com
Blogblog.howcast.com
StageLive
Launch DateFebruary 6, 2008
Tags video, how-to, instructional-video, diy-video
Howcast screenshot
Above: Howcast.com Homepage
Uploaded: 10/23/08
Howcast screenshot
Above: Howcast.com Video Page
Uploaded: 10/23/08

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Quantcast

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Howcast

Sources

  1. Howcast Adds $2 Million To First Round Financing (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  2. Howcast Raises Another $1 Million For How-To Videos (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. Howcast Raises Another $1 Million For How-To Videos (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  4. "New York City Hot 125" (lead411.com) [edit]
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