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nyoombl, Inc.

Conference: DEMO Spring 2010
Market Segment: Consumer Devices
Funding Amount: N/A
Funding Round: Seed
Funding Details: Self-funded
Competitors: Adjacent markets: Cisco, Polycom, Boxee, Vidyo, LifeSize
Product Description: A wallet-sized, Linux/Android OS-based device that enables PC to TV teleconferencing and TV to TV teleconferencing, yet costs less than a typical unsubsidized smartphone. With the nyoombl Greypfroot connected to a TV, the TV viewer is able to enjoy video calls with users of webcam-enabled computers or smartphones with forward-facing cameras.
Market Opportunity: Market size today: zero. Two-way PC-TV visual bridging does not exist today. Two-way TV-TV visual bridging is negligible currently, but 205 million new TV sets ended up in homes worldwide in 2009 and there are 1.2 billion computers in use globally, as of June 2008. • 205M new TVs Shipped Globally in 2009: Display Search Dec 2009 Report: referenced in TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/29/tvs-2009/ • PCs In-Use Reached over 1B in 2007: Computer Industry Almanac Inc, Jun 9, 2008 Report: http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0608.htm • PCs In-Use Reached nearly 1.2B in 2008 (1.19B to be exact): Computer Industry Almanac Inc, Jan 14, 2009 Press Release: http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0109.htm