CORRECTION: 创作 Completed a $25 Million Round - NOT Restating Earnings, as Mistakenly Reported by 流媒体 Earlier This Week

In the subject line of the Wednesday edition of our 流媒体附加 e-newsletter, 我们错误地说 创作 was restating recent earnings. Readers should note that it is KIT Digital, 而不是卡尔图拉, that is restating its earnings for the past 14 quarters. 请看这个故事 在这里. We apologize to 创作 and to our readers for the error.

正如我们在an中提到的 article contained in that same newsletter, 创作 has in fact just completed a $25 million fundraising round, 这是迄今为止规模最大的一轮融资. This round came on the heels of significant reported success.  The company was recently recognized in 《百家乐软件app最新版下载》 作为"six fast-growing tech companies;" in VentureBeat 作为"next billion-dollar 企业 tech companies;" in Mashable 作为"top 5 social 企业 technologies for business;和 商业内幕 作为"top 5 startups revolutionizing education“还有一个……”5 greatest open-source technologies for 2012."

创作 reports that its offerings touch hundreds of millions of viewers, 员工, 和学生, through deployments in more than 300,000个组织, including leading media companies such as Wikipedia, HBO, 华纳兄弟, 派拉蒙, 迷人的媒体, 博客her, Mevio, Gogo Internet; leading corporations such as SAP, 埃森哲咨询公司, 美国银行, 阿斯利康, Groupon, Zappos, 雀巢, IKEA; government agencies such as NASA, The European Television Guild, the White House; 和教育al institutions such as Harvard, 耶鲁大学, 麻省理工学院, 斯坦福大学, 普林斯顿大学, 康奈尔大学, 哥伦比亚, 和纽约大学. 创作 sells products and services directly to organizations, as well as via distributors and OEMs, such as InterCall and 黑板上.

创作 claims that it offers the industry’s most complete suite of commercial video applications, as well as an open-source development platform that includes hundreds of flexible and extendible APIs. 创作’s applications and platform enable video workflows, 包括摄入, 代码转换, 管理, 分布, 出版, 订婚, 货币化, 广泛的分析. 创作 offers out-of-the-box video solutions and products including, for example, a standalone 视频管理控制台，一个类似于youtube的私人网站 视频门户网站, online-video plug-ins for popular content 管理 systems such as Drupal, SharePoint, 黑板上, Moodle, 酒井法子. 这个平台, supported by a large global developer community of more than 40,000个成员, also powers tens of off-the-shelf reference applications and hundreds of plugins, 哪一个可以在 创作交换. The 创作 platform and its applications can be deployed either on-premise or on any public or private cloud (including 创作’s own SaaS cloud), are supported on any device including PCs, 平板电脑, 智能手机, 机顶盒, 连接设备.

创作’s latest fundraising round included investments from Intel Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, .406 Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Mitsui & Co. Global Investments, ORIX Ventures. Company representatives indicated that the company plans to use the funding to expand its presence in Asia and Latin America, as well as to support growth in each of its markets: media, 企业, 和教育.

卡尔图拉董事长兼首席执行官, 罗恩Yekutiel, commented that “创作 has emerged as the leader in flexible video delivery designed for the cloud. What fuels the company’s hyper growth is the combination of our off-the-shelf products and apps with our flexible development platform, which enables us to launch integrated products that transcend us beyond the traditional online video platform space into other large industries such as education technology and 企业 collaboration. We intend to use this new funding to expand our product offering, to grow into additional industries and geographies.”

With its growing momentum and additional funding, 创作 is definitely a company to keep an eye on.