Residence London, England Role Entrepreneur Name Charlie Muirhead | Website Rightster Homepage Occupation Entrepreneur | |
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Charlie Muirhead is a British Internet entrepreneur. He founded his first company, Orchestream, at the age of 21. He went on to found other companies including NexAgent, iGabriel, InterProvider, t5m, and Brave Bison (formerly known as Rightster). He is currently the co-founder and CEO of CognitionX, market intelligence for All Things AI.
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- The super intelligence end game jurgen schmidhuber charlie muirhead i dld17
- Orchestream
- NexAgent iGabriel and InterProvider
- t5m
- Rightster Brave Bison
- CognitionX
- Awards
- References
Orchestream
Muirhead handled his first management buyout (of a musical-equipment rental business) at the age of 18. At 19 he enrolled at the Imperial College London to study computer science. In 1996, while in college, Muirhead founded the company Orchestream at the age of 21, which allowed web users to prioritise their data on the Internet. He left college early to work on the company full-time, though he received a note from the College stating that he could return if his business idea fell through. By 1999 the company was worth £1 billion and was listed on the NASDAQ. He stepped down from his position as CEO in 2000, though maintained a position as non-executive director with the company. Orchestream was bought by Metasolv in 2002 for £6 million, a valuation described as "embarrassing" and "peanuts" by the media. It was subsequently sold to Oracle in 2006.
NexAgent, iGabriel, and InterProvider
In July 2000 he also founded the data communications company Nexagent, which secured £10.3m in its first round of funding,. Muirhead served as President and CEO of the company until 2003. In 2003 he relinquished his role as CEO but retained his role as President of the company. Muirhead also founded iGabriel.net—an Internet incubator fund that invested in start-up web companies. According to The Daily Telegraph, "Unlike other incubators, iGabriel only accepts funds from individuals, and mainly from people in the technology or media industries who can help develop the companies in which the fund invests." iGabriel.net would eventually merge with Pi-Capital. In 2001 Muirhead founded the company InterProvider. InterProvider supplied proprietary software and serviced interconnections to telecom operators, and Time Magazine featured Muirhead as an up-and-coming entrepreneur in its coverage of the company's founding.
t5m
In 2007 Muirhead founded the company t5m, standing for "the 5th medium". The website is an online television network that features interviews with prominent individuals talking about socially conscious issues. Early offerings included an exclusive channel run by Nelson Mandela's charity 46664, which partnered with t5m for World AIDS Day. The company relaunched in 2008 to syndicate original content clips between 3 and 5 minutes long, and distribute its own proprietary video-player. t5m combines the traditional television format of network-owned syndication alongside programs with production company-owned rights. The company also produces the television show Trinny and Susannah – What They Did Next.
Rightster / Brave Bison
In 2011 Muirhead founded Rightster, a software company that automates the end-to-end lifecycle for content owners, publishers, and marketers of digital video content including distribution, marketing, and monetisation of the content. Content partners for the company come from a broad range of industries, from London Fashion Week to ITN Productions and The Guardian newspaper. The company provides rights management through a cloud-based platform in addition to live streaming, audience development and YouTube/Facebook management services. Events that have streamed on Rightster have included the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and the Leveson Inquiry. By March 2012, monthly video views of Rightster's clients grew from approximately one million views per month to 100 million views per month. Its staff also quadrupled during that time, and has offices in London, New York City, and Delhi. On 28 January 2015, Rightster announced that Muirhead was stepping down and would be succeeded by Chief Commercial Officer Patrick Walker as CEO.
On 10 May 2016, it was announced that the company is relaunching under the name Brave Bison.[2]
CognitionX
In 2015, Muirhead founded CognitionX, a "Market Intelligence for All Things AI", with co-founder Tabitha Goldstaub. CognitionX is a community for innovators in the world of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. They bring together Experts, Data Sources, Vendors and Businesses looking for data driven solutions, through their events and online platform.