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Tubes Networks, Inc.

Product Name

Tubes

Market Segment

Consumer Software and Services

Funding

Adesso secured $8 million in funding in 2004 from Carlyle Venture Partners with participation from previous investors.

Competitors

No direct competitors. Secondary competitors include eSnips, Ning and Clearspring.

Product Description

Tubes unleashes content—media, docs, photos, thoughts, anything. Our unique blended Web + desktop approach makes it faster and easier to share, publish and distribute content, with control. The Tube Network gains energy and momentum from the synergy between its three constituencies—the consumer unleashing user-generated content, the media publisher exposing valuable content and drawing their existing audience to Tubes, and the developer who extends the value and fun of the Tubes’ service through applications they create.

Market Opportunity

By 2011, eMarketer estimates there will be 95 million Web users creating digital content, up from 64 million last year. The opportunity is to make it easier, safer and more compelling to share, publish and distribute content to the groups that we interact with regularly—our family, friends, colleagues, teams and communities.

Demo Says

Adesso Systems—a DEMOfall company in 2004—has reinvented itself once again, and this time with a formula that is sure to succeed. Tubes once and for all makes data sharing and synchronization mindlessly easy, which would be enough to invite the company back to DEMO. But the company goes many steps further, wrapping the product in a rich publishing and payments model that is a win for consumers and for Tubes itself. We’ve already identified several uses for Tubes and we’re eager to see what innovative companies and individuals do with this extensible platform.