Powtoon Explained

Powtoon Ltd.
Type:Private
Location City:London
Location Country:United Kingdom
Key People:Ilya Spitalnik (Founder), Daniel Zaturansky (Co-Founder), Sven Hoffman (Co-Founder), Oren Mashkovski (Co-Founder)
Industry:Internet marketing
Products:Powtoon Visual Communication Platform. A Web-based video maker and animation software

Powtoon Ltd. is a British company which sells cloud-based animation software (SaaS) for creating animated presentations and animated explainer videos.[1] The name "Powtoon" is a portmanteau of the words "PowerPoint" (trademarked by Microsoft) and "cartoon". VR

History

Powtoon was founded in January 2012. The company released a beta version in August 2012.[2] In December 2012, Powtoon secured $600,000 investment from Los Angeles–based venture capital firm Startup Minds.[3]

Product

Powtoon is a web-based animation software that allows users to create animated presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user-created voice-overs.[4] Powtoon uses an Apache Flex engine to generate an XML file that can be played in the Powtoon online viewer, exported to YouTube or downloaded as an MP4 file.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Perez, Sarah. TechCrunch, June 26, 2012, "Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY jump Presentation Tool"
  2. http://www.powtoon.com Powtoon Website
  3. Perez, Sarah, TechCrunch, December 14, 2012, "DIY Animation Platform PowToon Grabs $600K For Its Video Creation Software"
  4. Web site: Mersand. Shannon. Product Review: PowToon. Tech and Learning. May 12, 2014. May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140518094932/http://www.techlearning.com/product-reviews/0072/product-review-powtoon-/54971. May 18, 2014. dead.