PowToon
| Private | |
| Industry | Internet Marketing |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters |
28 Church Rd London, UK, United Kingdom |
Key people | Ilya Spitalnik (Co-Founder and CEO), Daniel Zaturansky (Co-Founder and COO), Sven Hoffman (Co-Founder and CTO) |
| Products | PowToon Web-based animation software |
| Website |
www |
PowToon is a company which sells cloud-based software (SaaS) for creating animated presentations and animated explainer videos.[1]
History
PowToon was founded in January 2012. The company released a beta version in August 2012 and has seen fast subscriber growth since.[2] In December 2012 PowToon secured $600,000 investment from LA based Venture Capital firm Startup Minds.[3] In February 2013 PowToon introduced a free account option allowing users to create animated videos that can be exported to YouTube. The free videos include the PowToon branding.
Product
PowToon is 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.[2]
PowToon is also available on the Google Chrome Store[5] and has an application on Edmodo.com.[6]
References
- ↑ Perez, Sarah. TechCrunch, June 26th, 2012, "Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY Presentation Tool"
- 1 2 Powtoon Website
- ↑ Perez, Sarah, TechCrunch , Dec 14, 2012, "DIY Animation Platform PowToon Grabs $600K For Its Video Creation Software"
- ↑ Mersand, Shannon (May 2014). "Product Review: PowToon". Tech and Learning. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ↑ PowToon - Chrome Web Store, Feb 2015, retrieved 25 February 2015
- ↑ PowToon by PowToon Ltd, Feb 2015, retrieved 25 February 2015