| Acquired by | |
| Price | $130M |
| Date | 2/10 |
| Terms | Cash and Stock |
| Website | on2.com |
| Blog | on2.com/blog |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Phone | 518-348-0099 |
| sales@flixcloud.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Description | On-demand video transcoding |
| TOTAL | $5.24M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $5.24M |
| Series C, 1/05 Nexit Ventures CapMan Oyj | $5.24M |
On2 Technologies Finland Oy offers power video codec solutions for wireless IC designs. It develops technology for enabling multimedia in battery operated mobile handsets. The company’s portfolio includes hardware and software video codecs, and audio and still image codecs; and mobile TV, camcorder, and player/streamer application solutions. It offers professional services, such as architecture consulting, customization services, integration services, on-site and telephone support, and maintenance and upgrade services. The company serves semiconductor and device manufacturers in the North American, EMEA, and APAC markets. It has strategic partnerships with Access, ARM, Coding Technologies, EXPWAY, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., OCP, RealNetworks, Silicon & Software Systems, Symbian, Texas Instruments, and Thomson. The company was founded as Hantro Products Oy in 1985 and changed its name to On2 Technologies Finland Oy in November 2007 following the acquisition by On2 Technologies Inc. The company is based in Oulu, Finland with additional offices in Espoo, Finland; Munich, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Kyunggido, Korea; and San Jose, California. As of November 1, 2007, On2 Technologies Finland Oy operates as a subsidiary of On2 Technologies Inc.
| Website | flixcloud.com |
| Blog | flixcloud.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | April 15, 2009 |
On November 15, 2010, Flix Cloud finished merging into Zencoder and was shut down. Zencoder is the team behind the original Flix Cloud application. We worked hard with Google to ensure that Flix Cloud customers could transition smoothly to a comparable service. (from http://zencoder.com/flixcloud/)
On2 Flix Cloud is a web-based transcoding service that reduces the cost and complexity of transcoding of digital video.
Flix Cloud is a Ruby on Rails web application that uses Amazon EC2 machine images as transcoding “workers.” The workers run our On2 Flix Engine transcoding SDK. At any time we can run as many workers as we need to handle the encoding demand from our customers.
In developing Flix Cloud we focused on areas that our research indicated were important to the market:
Flix Cloud is a partnership of On2 Technologies & Zencoder, LLC.
