Video-Sharing Site Fliqz Raises $2.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 1, 2007 - 11:09am.

Emeryville, Calif. - Fliqz, a video-sharing site and provider of video hosting services, announced that it has raised $2.5 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by Mohr Davidow Ventures.

Emeryville, Calif.-based Fliqz touts its site as a place to host product demonstrations, corporate messaging and educational videos, in addition to user-generated content.

The company claims a network of hundreds of partner sites, from media and social networking sites to blogs and niche communities, and offers free widgets and other instant video tools for small sites and blogs.

Fliqz raised $1 million in its first round of funding in September 2006.

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Published in DMW Daily, March 1, 2007

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Full-service, plug-and-play video solutions

Submitted by Benjamin Wayne (not verified) on March 1, 2007 - 1:05pm.

Thanks for covering us in Digital Media Wire!

Although Fliqz has been best known to consumers for our video sharing site, our public face will be disappearing in the next few weeks as we concentrate on our core business of delivering full service, plug-and-play video solutions to third party sites.

Over 300 sites and hundreds of blogs rely on our API and widget solutions to power over 30 million videos a month. Sites wishing to learn more about our private-label solutions can contact us at sales@fliqz.com or check out the Fliqzster, our instant video widget, at www.widgetbox.com.

Thanks again for including us, and look for the launch of our new corporate site in the next few weeks.

Benjamin Wayne
President & CEO
Fliqz, Inc.

Hrrrmm

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on March 4, 2007 - 12:50am.

When I used the fliqzster tool http://www.fliqz.com/fliqzster/selectBanner.html I get video id's around the 10,000 range....which is a far cry from 30 million