Showbox.com
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| Web address | showbox.com |
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| Slogan | Your story. Your show |
| Created by |
Effi Atad, CEO & Co-founder[1] Tomer Afek, CMO & Co-founder[2] |
| Launched | 2013 |
showbox is a free online video editing software that lets users create high-quality professional videos and share them online.[3] It offers an online green screen technology allowing users to change their video's background.[4]
Showbox partnered with Reuters and Getty Images to provide users with media to use in their videos.[5]
Showbox offers an all-inclusive process for start-to-finish professional video production, combining show formats, superior technologies, rich content libraries and management tools all accompanied by director instruction.[6]
In March 2015, Showbox was nominated as one of the 10 Israeli startups to take over our TV screens this year.[7][8]
Background
Showbox was founded in 2013 by Effi Atad and Tomer Afek. Effi Atad founded New Media communication, which was sold to the American company Harmonic Inc. in 1997.[9] Prior to becoming an internet entrepreneur, Effi Atad was a film produce for the films Elef Neshotav Shel Naftali Siman-Tov (1989) [10] and Ahrey HaChagim (1994).[11] Tomer Afek was the CEO of ConvertMedia, a New York-based media buying platform and a principal investor in one of Israel's biggest Venture Capital firms, Evergreen.[12]
Showbox has raised over $8.5M to date in series A funding round.[13] All of the capital was raised from private Angels, most of whom are media executives such as Charles Petruccelli, the former president of American Express Global Business Travel; Brad Wechsler, chairman of IMAX; Wix co-founder and chief technology officer Giora Kaplan; and TPG Capital senior partner Karl Peterson.[14] The company has been operating in stealth mode for the last two years and will utilise the funding to continue product development and drive market penetration. The platform uses freemium model that allows users to access more advanced services for a fee as their needs grow.
Events
Showbox participated in VidCon 2015 in Anaheim, California. Showbox booth enabled thousand of people to create a video on the spot.
References
- ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/16/showbox/
- ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/16/showbox/
- ↑ "Facebook Videos Transforming The Digital Marketing Landscape,". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ↑ "Websites Making your Videos : Websites for Making your Videos". TrendHunter.com. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ↑ "10 הסטארטאפים הישראלים שיכבשו את מסך הטלויזיה שלכם [TechDate] | גיקטיים". Retrieved 2015-06-07.
- ↑ http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-cloud-based-video-production-co-showbox-raises-85m-1001053688
- ↑ http://www.geektime.co.il/techdate-intv-2015-event-review/
- ↑ http://m.forbes.co.il/news/new.aspx?Pn6VQ=L&0r9VQ=EFHID
- ↑ "ניו מדיה נמכרה לחברה אמריקנית תמורת 19 מ' ד' במניות - גלובס". Globes. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ↑ http://www.filmfund.org.il/?id=11&nom=1124
- ↑ http://www.filmfund.org.il/?id=11&nom=1310
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1131777
- ↑ Shu, Catherine. "Created For Amateurs, Online Video Editing Platform Showbox Picks Up $8M Series A". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ↑ "5 Cloud Computing Funding Stories You Might Have Missed, July 17". talkincloud.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.