Type of business Private No. of locations Berlin, Amsterdam Products Vigour Video Number of employees 12 | Headquarters Amsterdam Industry Internet video Founded 4 May 2012 | |
Key people Ramon Duivenvoorden (CEO)
Jim de Beer (CTO)
Marcus Besjes (CCO)
Leo Schmmidt (COO)
Youri Daamen (Head of Product) Founders Ramon Duivenvoorden, Jim de Beer, Marcus Besjes | ||
Vigour is a venture-backed, privately held company that provides a web-based multiscreen framework to media companies. The company was founded in 2012 by friends Jim de Beer, Ramon Duivenvoorden and Marcus Besjes.
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History
The founders were invited to work on an innovation project for the Dutch telecom provider KPN. During the project they had to build a prototype that would allow users to watch video content from any screen in the household. When they realised that it would be very difficult to create a high performance user interface across all those platforms they started building their own framework to overcome the problems they encountered.
The Product
Vigour developed a technology that enables user interfaces to run on any platform (phone, tablet, web, TV, consoles etc.) by only using web technologies. The Vigour Video product enables media companies to add a multiscreen layer on their existing videoservice and the roles of different connected devices change based on the context of the user.