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StatusPrivately Held
Websiteqik.com
CategoryWeb
Emailinfo@qik.com
Address 950 TowerLane
Suite 1600
Foster City, CA, 94404
USA
Employees22

Funding
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Total$4M
Series B, 4/08 1
Marc Benioff
Arjun Gupta
George Garrick
$3M
Unattributed 2
$1M

Competitors
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Mogulus, Facebook, Kyte, Seero, seesmic

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livevideo, video

Qik
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Qik enables live video casting from a cell phone via any 3G/GPRS/Wi-fi Internet connection. Developed by Visivo Communications in Santa Clara, Qik has been in testing since November 2007. Unlike sites where you have to wait for the video to be uploaded, Qik cleverly streams the video straight into the site with a 5 second delay. To use it you download and install the client software onto a Nokia S60 cell. Click on the icon on the phone and then start streaming video. Once finished, the live stream turns into a recorded video. You can also send “Qiks” to Twitter by entering your Twitter user details on the Qik site.

Competitors include Kyte, Seesmic and Ustream.

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Qik
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Websiteqik.com
StageBeta
Tags video
Qik screenshot
Above: Qik Screenshot -- #1

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Comments

Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments - March 10, 2008 at 7:45am
Bhaskar Roy: Qik should be a part of Nokia's Ovi "Absolutely! Qik should be a part of Ovi", said Qik's VP Marketing and co-founder Bhaskar Roy when we talked in Barcelona. He also related how venture capitalists are competing to do his company's second round of funding. Our chat was very interesting and insightful. Who had thought that this Silicon Valley company is mostly based in Russia? While India born Bhaskar and his friend Ramu Sunkara run Qik together with some other Stanford graduates from the Californian city of Santa Clara, most of their employees live and work in Moscow. Nilolay Abkairov, who was a former speech codec developer for Skype mobile, and his team are busily porting Qik to all smartphone platforms.
Christopher Sullivan - January 11, 2008 at 11:48pm
This is fantastic. I have been in touch with Steve Garfield of stevegarfield.com (an avid videoblogger).I had the opportunity to meet him after keeping a coast to coast dialog.He has introduced me to a world where anyone can be a citizen journalist,which is very intriging to me.But to have the ability now to capture LIVE VIDEO and have it streamed to the web is nothing short of mind blowing. I would like to be involved with a company like this, right on the ground level.All I need now is a Nokia N95 and a fast,stable connection.

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  1. Qik Raises $3M for Live Mobile Streaming (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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