Mux (company) explained

Mux, Inc.
Industry:Streaming media
Founder:Jonathan Dahl, Steve Heffernan, Matthew McClure, Adam Brown
Hq Location City:San Francisco, California
Products:Mux Data, Mux Video
Website:www.mux.com
Type:Privately held company
Founded:2015

Mux is a video technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California.[1] Mux focuses on video streaming infrastructure software and video performance analytics.[2]

History

Mux was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Dahl, Steve Heffernan, Matthew McClure, and Adam Brown.[3] Jonathan Dahl and Steve Heffernan are the founders of Zencoder, a cloud encoding company sold to Brightcove in 2012.[4] The name “Mux” is short for “multiplexing,” a reference to combining multiple signals into one in digital media.

Mux has raised a total of $11.8m from Accel Partners, YCombinator, Lowercase Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, and more.[5] Mux is member of Heavybit[6] and went through the YCombinator program in 2016.[7] [8]

Mux's first product was a quality of service (QoS) analytics platform to measure a viewer's experience while watching video.[9] In 2018, Mux announced an API for video streaming[10] [11] using per-title encoding,[12] a technique similar to that used by Netflix.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mux, Inc.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com. 2018-04-18.
  2. News: Mux: The Story Behind This Video Performance Analytics Service. Chowdhry. Amit. Forbes. 2018-04-18. en.
  3. News: Video analytics service Mux raises $9 million led by Accel. 2017-04-18. VentureBeat. 2018-04-18. en-US.
  4. Web site: Brightcove Acquires Cloud Encoding Vendor Zencoder, As Revenues Increase 41% To $21.6 Million In Q2 – TechCrunch. techcrunch.com. en-US. 2018-04-18.
  5. News: Video Analytics Startup Mux Raises $2.8M, Hopes To Make Video Streams More User-Friendly AdExchanger. 2016-08-31. AdExchanger. 2018-04-18. en-US.
  6. News: Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Mux Heavybit. 2016-05-05. Heavybit. 2018-04-18. en-US.
  7. Web site: The top 8 startups from Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2 – TechCrunch. techcrunch.com. en-US. 2018-04-18.
  8. News: Mux Is Google Analytics for Video. Combinator. Y. Y Combinator. 2018-04-18. en-US.
  9. Web site: Here are the 59 startups that demoed at Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2 – TechCrunch. techcrunch.com. en-US. 2018-04-18.
  10. News: Mux Opens Early Access to Mux Video API. ProgrammableWeb. 2018-04-18. en.
  11. News: Mux Branches Out With Mux Video, Promises Easy Optimization. Dreier. Troy. 2017-11-14. Streaming Media Magazine. 2018-04-18.
  12. Web site: Mux Launches Instant Per-Title Encoding, Improving Video Quality For Everyone. Streaming Media Magazine. 2018-04-18.
  13. Web site: Per-Title Encode Optimization. Blog. Netflix Technology. 2015-12-14. Netflix TechBlog. 2018-04-18.

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