Business Products & Services Company

Elemental Technologies

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Funding Goal
Funding Raised So Far $27,600,000
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

Company Overview

Elemental Technologies, Inc. is a software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon that specializes in providing multiscreen video solutions. Founded in August 2006, Elemental creates software that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform video encoding, decoding, transcoding, and pixel processing tasks on commodity hardware for adaptive bitrate streaming of video over IP networks. Media and entertainment companies using Elemental products include the BBC, Comcast, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Foxtel, HBO, NHK, PBS, Telefonica and Warner Bros. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India and Brazil.

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Elemental Live

Elemental Live is a GPU-accelerated, enterprise-class video processing system that provides content distributors with video and audio encoding for live streaming to new media platforms. With unprecedented density and support for adaptive bit rate protocols, HTML 5 and multiple HD streams, Elemental Live delivers the high-quality, high-efficiency performance required for current and future live streaming applications for any device.

Elemental Conductor

Elemental Stream

Elemental Cloud

Elemental Server

Elemental Server is an enterprise-class video processing system that provides fast, high-quality, and highly-efficient video transcoding using graphics processing units (GPUs). Elemental Server was developed for broadcasters, studios, online video platforms who are doing batch transcoding and for use with any other video transcoding applications.

The video processing system is easy to install, configure and maintain with REST and XML interfaces for fast integration into existing workflows. Using multiple GPUs, Elemental Server offers faster than real-time transcoding, even for multiple simultaneous 1080p streams. Elemental Server merges the performance benefits of a massively parallel hardware platform with the flexibility and forward compatibility of traditional software solutions to give video publishers high price-performance for video transcoding.

Management

Sam Blackman
Chief Executive Officer
Sam B......

Sam B...... is CEO and co-founder of Elemental Technologies, Inc., a Portland-based startup company.

B...... brings extensive management experience and video processing expertise to the Elemental. As leader of Elemental, he has grown Elemental into the leading provider of massively parallel video processing solutions, building innovative products used by leading video content providers.

Prior to co-founding Elemental in 2006, Sam specified and architected next-generation products as an IC design manager for Pixelworks. Prior to joining Pixelworks in 2000, Sam held engineering positions at Silicon Graphics and Intel Corporation. Due to a growing reputation for deep industry knowledge, Sam has been tapped for presentations and contributions to leading trade and news organizations.

Chief Executive Officer
Samuel S......

CEO and Co-founder at Elemental Technologies

Erik Benson
Director
Erik B......

Erik B...... is a Seattle-based venture capitalist. Prior to joining Voyager Capital in 1998, Erik ran a graphics software startup called Mimix and was an EIR for the Washington Research Foundation.

Prior to Voyager, Erik was an investor for WRF Capital after leadership roles at Mimix Inc., a pioneer in the area of motion capture and animation software for the gaming industry. Erik started his career in New York for a predecessor bank to JPMorgan Chase, advising and financing private equity clients.

Robert Abbott
Director
Robert A......

Robert joined NVP in 1998 and is focused on a wide variety of investment categories including mobile, cloud & IT infrastructure.

His current investments and board seats include Act-On Software, ClariPhy, ClearDATA, Elemental, mBlox and Zenverge.

Robert was formerly a member of the board of directors of Brand.net (acquired by Valassis Communications), Covigo (acquired by Symbol Technologies), KACE (acquired by Dell), Mozes (acquired by ePrize), Occam Networks (acquired by Calix), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices) and SideStep (acquired by Kayak).

He has also worked with such companies as Embark (acquired by Princeton Review), Escalate (acquired by GERS), Kayak (Nasdaq: KYAK), mPower (acquired by Morningstar) and Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra).

Robert has nine years of operational experience in various roles, from engineering to marketing and product management. Before joining NVP, he was at Silicon Graphics.

Bob Hammond
Director
Bob H......

Bob H...... is the Chief Technology Officer at Jumptap overseeing the development, research, QA, and architecture teams. A 24-year industry veteran, H...... joined Jumptap from Vibrant Media, a NY-based online ad network, where he served as SVP of Technology.

Prior to Vibrant Media, H...... was VP of Engineering at Yahoo! following the companys acquisition of Maven Networks, a video ad network where H...... was SVP of Engineering for three years. In his role at Yahoo!, H...... managed and oversaw engineering for the companys Video Platform and Syndication Group, including management of core development teams, product QA, product UI design, and technical documentation.

Before Maven, H...... spent more than six years at Mirror Image, serving as Chief Technology Officer for the final three. H...... received a BS in Biology from the University of Connecticut and studied Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire.

Scott Hilleboe
Director
Scott H......

Scott H...... is a member of the investment team at Revolution Growth, which invests in game-changing consumer technology businesses that disrupt multi-billion dollar industries. Scott brings over 15 years of experience in operations, venture capital investing, and business development in the media, consumer, software, and enabling technology sectors.

Prior to joining Revolution Growth, Scott was a Managing Director with Steamboat Ventures based in Los Angeles. Scott currently serves on the Board of Directors of EdgeCast Networks and Elemental Technologies. While at Steamboat, Scott led investments in Fastclick (IPO and then acquired by ValueClick), Greystripe (acquired by ValueClick), Kyte (acquired by KIT Digital), MerchantCircle (acquired by Reply.com), MediaBank (merged to become MediaOcean), Move Networks (acquired by EchoStar), PopularMedia (acquired by StrongMail) and Quigo (acquired by AOL).

Chief Technology Officer
Jesse J......

CTO and Co-founder at Elemental Technologies

Ethel Chen
Ethel C......

Ethel focuses on early and late stage venture investments in enterprise software and infrastructure including areas such as big data, SaaS, healthcare IT, mobile and cloud.

Before joining NVP in 2008, Ethel worked at Index Ventures where she evaluated investment opportunities in technology sectors ranging from mobile and consumer Internet to open source enterprise software. Prior to Index Ventures, Ethel was a private equity associate at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, where she conducted due diligence and assessed buyouts in the consumer products, healthcare and retail sectors. Previously, Ethel was a member of Morgan Stanleys Media & Communications M&A Group, where she specialized in strategic advisory work for such clients as Comcast and AT&T. Ethel has also held positions at IBMs Tokyo Research Laboratory and Netscape Communications Corporation.

Director
Bob A......

Robert is a successful venture capitalist and Silicon Valley tech operator, and an all around great guy.

Robert joined NVP (Norwest Venture Partners) in 1998 and is focused on a wide variety of investment categories including mobile, cloud & IT infrastructure.

His current investments and board seats include Act-On Software, ClariPhy, ClearDATA, Elemental, mBlox, Mozes and Zenverge.

Robert was formerly a member of the board of directors of Brand.net (acquired by Valassis Communications), Covigo (acquired by Symbol Technologies), KACE (acquired by Dell), Occam Networks (acquired by Calix), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices) and SideStep (acquired by Kayak).

He has also worked with such companies as Embark (acquired by Princeton Review), Escalate (acquired by GERS), Kayak (Nasdaq: KYAK), mPower (acquired by Morningstar) and Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra).

Frank Gill
Frank G......

Kevin O......

Kevin co-founded Level 3 Communications Inc. and served as its Chief Operating Officer from March 1998 to March 2008 and its President from July 2000 to March 2008. He also served as a director of Level 3. During Kevins tenure, the company grew to approximately $4.3B in annual revenue and approximately $825M of annual EBITDA. Prior to co-founding Level 3, Kevin was with MFS Global Network Services, Inc, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1995 to 1997; as Senior Vice President of MFS and President of MFS Development Inc. from October 1992 to August 1995; and as a Vice President of MFS Telecom, Inc. from 1990 to 1992. While he was at MFS, annual revenue grew from a negligible amount to more than $2B. He left MFS after it was sold to WorldCom for approximately $14.5B. Kevin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Director
Sujal P......

Brian G......

Chief Architect and co-founder at Elemental Technologies

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Funding Goal
Funding Raised So Far $27,600,000
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

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Elemental Technologies

Portland, OR 97201, US

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