| Website | roku.com |
| Category | Consumer Electronics/Devices |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 10/02 |
| Description | Home Digital Media Electronics |
| Total | $14.4M |
| Series B, 1/08 Netflix | $6M |
| Series C, 10/08 Menlo Ventures | |
| Series D, 8/09 Menlo Ventures | $8.4M |
Roku is a consumer electronics firm which specializes in home digital media products. They’re best known for creating the first set-top streaming box for Netflix.
The company was founded by ReplayTV founder Anthony Wood. “Roku” means “six” in Japanese, a reference to the six companies Wood has launched.
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Added: 8/10/09| Website | roku.com |
| Launch Date | May 20, 2008 |
| Tags | netflix, streaming, video |
The Roku Player is a $100 set top box that streams movies and TV shows from Netflix and Amazon Video On Demand as well as live baseball via MLB.TV directly to your living room.
A Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand or MLB.TV account is required to use the box, but then you simply connect the box to the Internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, send a request to link the Roku player to the respective content provider and then the box is paired and you’re ready to start streaming from a library of over 50,000 combined titles and live and on demand baseball.
