Type of business Private Website www.tokbox.com Founded 2007 | Type of site Video Conferencing Alexa rank 58,996 (April 2014) Founders Ron Hose, Serge Faguet | |
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Key people Scott Lomond, CEOBadri Rajaseker, CTOMelih Onvural, Director of Product ManagementMichael Kelleher, Director of Business AnalyticsIan Small, Chairman of the Board Profiles | ||
Flash powered group web video conferencing emerges for publishers from tokbox
TokBox is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) company that provides hosted infrastructure, APIs and tools required to deliver enterprise-grade WebRTC capabilities. It does so primarily through its proprietary OpenTok video platform for commercial application.
Contents
- Flash powered group web video conferencing emerges for publishers from tokbox
- Techcrunch disrupt ny 2012 tokbox winner 2
- Developer Outreach
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- Controversy
- References
TokBox was founded by entrepreneurs Serge Faguet and Ron Hose and was backed by Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, DAG Ventures, and Youniversity Ventures. As of November 2010, TokBox had raised $26 million in series A and B and C funding. Headquartered in the SOMA (South of Market) district in San Francisco, CA. TokBox was acquired by Telefónica Digital, a subsidiary of Telefónica, in October 2012.
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Developer Outreach
TokBox has a long history of active engagement with the developer community. It has sponsored numerous hackathons since 2010 such as TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, API Hack Day and Music Hack Day
PennApps, one of the largest of such events, takes place on University of Pennsylvania campus every semester. Over a thousand students from around the world competed in the September, 2013 edition of PennApps. Four sophomore students from Carnegie Mellon University with no prior hackathon experience built Classity to showcase real-time lectures on the web and won the “Best Use of TokBox API” award.
2007
August – Series A funding from Sequoia Capital
October – Launched www.tokbox.com
November – Launched multi-party chat and partnership with Meebo
2008
April – TokBox Version 2 launched
July – Series B Funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Sequoia Capital
September – Launched the TokBox platform/ API
2009
Added document collaboration tool—Etherpad (now owned by Google)
2010
January rolled out its first set of paid features--$9.99 per month.
November announced the OpenTok API
2011
February TokBox announced that as of April 5, 2011 they will be discontinuing the TokBox video chat and video conferencing service to focus solely on their API, OpenTok.
Controversy
TokBox was the subject of controversy when 50% of their engineering staff was fired in July 2009. This happened around the time TokBox changed CEOs. The VP of Marketing is stated as saying the firings were part of the CEOs new restructuring plan. None of the original founders are currently with TokBox.