Mux (company)

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Mux, Inc.
TypePrivately held company
IndustryStreaming media
Founded2015
FounderJonathan Dahl, Steve Heffernan, Matthew McClure, Adam Brown
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
ProductsMux Data, Mux Video
Websitewww.mux.com

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] [3] 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. [2] [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]

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