ffwd.com, Inc.
ffwd.com
- Conference
- DEMOfall 08
- Market Segment
- Consumer Software and Services
- Funding Amount
- $1,000,001-$5,000,000
- Funding Round
- Series A
- Funding Details
- ffwd secured its Series A round of funding for $1.7 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in June 2007 and has recently kicked off its Series B effort.
- Competitors
- ChimeTV, ComsoTV, Dabble, Divvio, Google/YouTube, MeFeedia, Modern Feed, Quintura, Repliqa, Sidereel, StumbleUpon, Veoh, Verismo, Veveo, and Vodpod.
- Product Description
- For people who enjoy short-form digital entertainment and want unlimited choice and power over their experience, ffwd is your personal remote control for the interactive video web that makes navigating options as simple as channel surfing and more powerful than search. Freeing you from information overload of the web and one-size-fits-all approach of cable, ffwd offers a personalized adaptive lineup of channels organized by the entire web video audience and available from any web-enabled device.
- Market Opportunity
- Estimated $100-$300 million in 2-3 years; and over a billion after 5 years. Even if cable advertising shrinks by 90% and subscription revenue goes away, the remaining is $3 billion. If ffwd shares the market, that still leaves the company with $1 billion. (National Cable & Telecommunications Association http://www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic/Statistics.aspx)
- DEMO Says
- Great improvements in video search technology are helping viewers find video to watch; ffwd is making it more enjoyable to watch it. Leveraging adaptive algorithms that program content into a cohesive viewing experience and social graphs that bring viewers' interests together, ffwd connects viewers to online video through personalized adaptive channels from all over the web with the click of a button.
- Contact
- Patrick Koppula
- patrick@ffwd.com
- Company Address
-
580 Howard St., Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94105 - Primary Phone
- 415-692-6845
- URL
- www.ffwd.com
- Officer One
- Patrick Koppula - CEO & Founder
- Officer Two
- Greg Roberts - Lead Server Application Engineer & Founder
- Officer Three
- Nick Roberts - Lead Client Application Engineer & Founder
- Officer Four
- Mark Wasserman - Lead Product Designer & Founder
Twitter Viral Video Search? Twitmatic Video Search Application
TechNews.AM ~ 05/22/2009
Twitmatic, created by San Francisco startup ffwd, relaunched their Twitter video search...Read More
Ffwd's new Facebook app aggregates your videos
Cnet News ~ 05/07/2009
by Josh Lowensohn Font size Print E-mail Share Post a comment Video service Ffwd has a new...Read More
FFWD F9R Darc wheels
Road Cycling UK ~ 05/07/2009
FFWD has released the F9R wheels, which use the company's new 'Darc' profile to improve...Read More
ffwd Launches New Video Application on Facebook(R) Platform
StreetInsider.com ~ 05/07/2009
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- From the Digital Hollywood conference, ffwd (pronounced...Read More
ffwd interviewed by Technology News Examiner
Examiner ~ 04/09/2009
ffwd was recently interviewed by the National Technology News Examiner of Examiner.com When was...Read More
ffwd Debuts 'Twitmatic' Community Television Experience
TMCnet.com ~ 03/16/2009
Mar 15, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- At InteractiveTV Today's "TV of Tomorrow Show," ffwd...Read More
Turn Twitter Into a TV Channel
Congoo ~ 03/14/2009
Twitmatic taps into Twitter's public stream and pulls together a grouping of videos that people...Read More
Separate But Equal
Toronto Life ~ 03/13/2009
THE BUYERS Jim Kirby, a 48-year-old managing partner of the ad agency Publicis FFWD and a member...Read More
Ffwd Launches Twitter Video Community
The Online Reporter ~ 03/13/2009
The video community ffwd (fast forward) has launched a new online TV experience for the Twitter...Read More
Twitmatic: Tweet, and the world watches
CNET.co.uk ~ 03/12/2009
Twitmatic is a new video aggregator from the creators of ffwd. It taps into Twitter's public...Read More
ffwd Introduces Twitmatic. | North America United States from AllBusiness.com
AllBusiness ~ 03/12/2009
A New Television Experience By and For the Twitter Community SAN FRANCISCO -- At InteractiveTV...Read More
ffwd Hops on Twitter Bandwagon with Twitmatic - NYTimes.com
The New York Times ~ 03/12/2009
Video discovery service ffwd has created a new project called Twitmatic, which surfaces videos...Read More
TPTEST 'pwd' Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Security Focus ~ 02/16/2009
Bugtraq ID: 33785 Class: Boundary Condition Error CVE: Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Feb...Read More