Past Events

November 30 2010 @ Samsung Experience |Details

  1. LongTail Video – David Otten, CEO
  2. Minyanville – Kevin Wassong, President
  3. 5Min – Ran Harnevo, Founder & CEO
  4. VMIX – Sean Casey, President & Managing Director
  5. Grace n’ Michelle – Vloggers

July 28 2010 @ NBC | Details

“Founder DNA Series” with Gary Vaynerchuck.

May 10 2010 @ Hilton NY| Details

  1. PlayOn – Jeff Lawrence, Founder & CEO
  2. Dynamo Player – Rob Millis, Founder & CEO
  3. SundaySky – Mitch Praver, President
  4. VMIX – Mike Glickenhaus, President & CEO
  5. Kyte – Daniel Graf, Founder & CEO
  6. Interlude – Yoni Bloch, Founder & CEO *WINNER*

March 18, 2010 @ CBS | Details

  1. SetJam – Ryan Janssen, Founder & CEO
  2. Twistage – David Wadler, Founder & CEO
  3. TeeWe – Aviv Messa, Founder & CEO *Co-WINNER*
  4. Ogmento - Ori Inbar, Founder & CEO *Co-WINNER*
  5. FileMobile – Chris Becker, Founder & CEO

February 23, 2010 @ NYU | Details

  1. Clicker – Jim Lanzone, Founder & CEO *WINNER*
  2. Dailymotion – Sébastien Adgnot, Lead Developer
  3. Pegshot – Phil Thomas Di Giulio, Founder
  4. Watchitoo – Shai Eisen, COO

January 27th, 2010 @ NYU | Details

  1. SpeakerText – Matt Mireles, Founder & CEO
  2. Klickable.TV – Roger Wu, Founder & President
  3. Frontal – Mark Cooper, Founder & CEO *WINNER*
  4. PNG Labs – Jerome Aoustin, Founder & CTO

December 17, 2009 @ CBS | NY Video Top Startup 2009

  1. Kaltura – Dr. Shay David, Founder
  2. Zixi – Israel Drori, Founder
  3. PopScreen – Glenn Gutierrez, Founder
  4. 5min – Ran Harnevo, Founder *WINNER*
  5. KickApps – Josh Weinstein, PM
  6. Adotube – Joshua Winograd, Founder

Oct 21st, 6:30PM @ NYU | Details

  1. Blockbuster – Scott Levine, VP, Digital
  2. Milabra – Samuel R. Cox, Founder & CEO
  3. LiveU *WINNER* – Ken Zamkow, Director BD & Sales
  4. GNMarketLink (Stealth) – Zeev Neumier, Founder & CEO.

Sept 30, 2009 @ NYU | Details

  • “Founder DNA Series” with Jeremy Allaire, Founder & CEO, Brightcove

Video: Interview | Presentation | Group Q&A | Photos

August 20, 2009 – 3YR Anniversary Summer Party! | Details

July 28, 2009 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. MTV – Jason Witt, GM Digital Fusion, our Hot Seat guest presented the results of an internal study on consumer video ad preferences and what MTV is doing about it.
  2. Brightroll – Lewis Rothkopf, VP Network Dev demo’d leading video ad units and discussed relative effectiveness. Brightroll network now the #3 web video property. 30 sec pre-rolls seeing average $22 CPM.
  3. Howcast *WINNER* – Jason Liebman, Founder & CEO impressed the crowd with breadth of content, features and viral syndication strategy.
  4. ZapMyTV – Steven Turner, Founder & CEO demo’d what can best be described as “Cable TV over the Internet” and announced partnership with Paramount.

June 18, 2009 @ NYU, Co-hosted by OVA | Details

  1. Epix – Emil Rensing, Chief Digital Officer unveiled the highly anticipated HD movie streaming JV between Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM.
  2. Tremor Media – Shane Steele, VP Marketing introduced vChoice, the new user-driven in-stream video ad format and other cool tools.
  3. Zixi *WINNER* – Israel Drori, Founder & CEO showed a demo of LIVE HD video streaming technology that simply needed to be seen to be believed.
  4. Motionbox – Chris O’Brien, Founder & Chairman shared what’s new at the popular video sharing site since their big Series C raise earlier this year.

May 11, 2009 @ Hilton | Details

  1. Volomedia – Jeff Karnes, VP Marketing & Products demo’d how to monetize video on portable devices.
  2. SesameVault – Cameron Brain, Founder & CEO demo’d their powerful video management platform
  3. Clearspring – Alex Calic, VP Network Development demo’d the web’s most viral video widget syndication platform.
  4. Aniboom – Uri Shinar, Founder & CEO wow’d the crowd with crowd-sourced animations
  5. Magma *WINNER* - Andrew Baron, Founder & CEO of Rocketboom unveiled his top secret new startup

April 14, 2009 @ New World Stages | Details

  1. Boxee – Avner Ronen, Founder & CEO addressed the heated Internet-to-TV debate.
  2. Mogulus – Max Haot, Founder & CEO unveiled Procaster new live event streaming app.
  3. KickApps – Mike Sommers, SVP, Products – Demo’ing new video widgets
  4. Diversion Media – Nicholas Buttersworth, Founder & CEO – Unveiling HD Cloud

March 10, 2009 @ New World Stages | Details

  1. attracTV – Tzahi Sofer, Founder & CEO
  2. Feedroom – Matt DeLoca, SVP Sales & Marketing
  3. Miro 2.0 – Dean Jansen, Outreach Director
  4. PortalVideo – Len Sitomer, Founder & President
  5. thePlatform – Andrew Leighton, East Coast Director

October 27, 2008 @Webster Hall | Details

  1. Animoto – Tom Clifton, Co-founder & Creative Director
  2. Brightcove – G. Gooder & Doug Castoldi
  3. Innovid – Zvika Netter, Co-founder & CEO
  4. Gigya - Ben Pashman, Vice President, BD
  5. Ooyala – Keith Kryszcun & Javier Salom

September 23, 2008 @ NYU – NewTeeVee Screening

July 28, 2008 @ Webster Hall – Content Panel | Details

  1. Hudson Street Media – Robert Millis – Founder
  2. For Your Imagination – Paul Kontonis – Founder
  3. Rocketboom – Andrew Baron – Founder
  4. Ill Doctrine – Jay Smooth – Founder
  5. Pop17 – Sarah Austin – Founder
  6. Dinosaur Diorama Productions – Kathleen Grace & Thom Woodley, Founders,

June 24, 2008 @ Webster Hall | Details

  1. Hulu – Kevin McGurn, VP National Sales
  2. Move Networks – Bob Bryson, SVP Sales & BD
  3. Boxee *WINNER* - Avner Ronen, Co-founder & CEO
  4. MediaMerx – Tejpaul Bhatia, Co-founder & CEO
  5. Visible Measures – Matt Cutler, VP Marketing & Analytics

May 19, 2008 @ Hilton New York | Details

  1. EkkoTV – Andrew Sternthal, Co-Founder & CEO
  2. Vusion – Grover Righter, VP Marketing
  3. BestTV *WINNER* - Oded Felled, Founder & VP BD
  4. Magnify.net – Steven Rosenbaum, Founder & CEO
  5. Adotube – Joshua Winograd, Chief Revenue Officer

March 27, 2008 @ Webster Hall | Details

  1. CBS Interactive – Sean Tice, Web Producer
  2. PermissionTV – John Zahner, Senior Vice President
  3. SeeToo – Yoav Ilan, Co-Founder
  4. Review Basics – Mike Grushin, Partner, CTO
  5. NeoVids.tv – Matthew Feldman, Co-Founder & Producer

January 29, 2008 @ Webster Hall | Details

  1. Aditall – Rodger Wells, SVP Marketing & BD
  2. Camlink – Ilya Zatulovskiy, Co-Founder
  3. uvLayer – Michael Hoydich, Co-Founder
  4. FlixWagon – Sarig Reichert, Co-Founder

December 10, 2007 @ Roosevelt Hotel | Details

  1. Origin Digital – Curt Kendall, VP Product Dev
  2. Redlasso – Hanan Gelbendorf, VP Products
  3. Aditall – Rodger Wells, SVP Sales & BD
  4. SportsBone.tv – Tony Delbusso, Founder & CEO
  5. ModMyLife.com – Martin Codyre, Co-Founder

October 30, 2007 @ For Your Imagination Studios | Details

  1. Joost – David Clark, GM North America
  2. Blip.tv – Justin Day, Co-founder & CTO
  3. 5min.com – Ran Harnevo, Co-founder & CEO
  4. HeyCosmo.com – James Im, Founder & CEO

August 30, 2007 @ For Your Imagination Studios | Details

  1. Mogulus – Max Haot, Founder & CEO
  2. DigitalSmiths – Ben Weinberger, Founder & CEO
  3. Yuxt – Vitaly Leokumovich, Founder & CEO
  4. Chic.TV – Rami Rinot, Founder & CEO

July 9, 2007 @ Columbia Business School – Ad Panel | Details

  1. NBCU – Kevin J. McGurn, VP, Advertising.
  2. OMD – Jeff Minsky, Director of Digital Media
  3. DoubleClick – Robert Victor, Product Manager, Emerging Media
  4. ScanScout – Jed Savage, EVP, Strategy and Development

May 30, 2007 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. CacheLogic – Scott Hall, East Coast Director
  2. Roo Media – Dan Rosen, VP, BD
  3. Pando Networks – Laird Popkin, CTO
  4. ooVoo – Paul Teague, VP BD

April 25, 2007 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. AOL Video - Geno Yoham, Director, Video Products
  2. Viddler - Rob Sandie, Founder & President
  3. Kaltura – Shay David, Founder & CTO
  4. Tilzy.tv – Jamison Tilsner, Founder (Launched)

March 28, 2007 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. MTV Networks - Kenny Miller, EVP Digital Media
  2. Brightcove – Tony Dunaif, VP, Content Partnerships
  3. On2 – Mike Savello, SVP, Global Sales
  4. Payoneer – Yuval Tal, Founder & CEO

February 21, 2007 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. Vidavee – Mark Brenner, Founder & CEO
  2. ClipSyndicate – Sean Morgan, Founder & CEO
  3. enScramble – John Cooper, Tech Lead
  4. HungryFlix.com – Brian Andrews, CEO
  5. HelloWorld – Marvin Bzura

January 25, 2007 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. Network2 – Jeff Pulver, Founder
  2. NBBC.com – Marc Siry, VP, NBC Universal
  3. Bolt.com – Aaron Cohen, Founder
  4. YouAre.TV – David Dundas, Founder
  5. dotSUB – Michael Smolens, Founder

November 30, 2006 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. DoubleClick – Ari Paparo, VP Rich Media
  2. PantherExpress – Anthony Katsur, COO
  3. KlikVu – Lowell Feuer, Founder & CEO
  4. Pond5 – Tom Bennett, Founder & CEO
  5. BitWine – Alon Cohen, Founder & CEO

October 26, 2006 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. Bolt.com – Aaron Cohen, Founder & CEO
  2. GridFold – Jerry Qin, Founder & CTO
  3. WellcomeMat – Christian Sterner, Founder & CEO
  4. TVersity – Ronen Mizrahi, Founder & CEO

September 28, 2006 @ Columbia Business School | Details

  1. The FeedRoom – Chuck Johnson, Founder
  2. Magnify.net – Steve Rosenbaum, Founder & CEO
  3. Eyeblaster – Nir Shimoni, VP Products

August 30, 2006 @ Tribeca Film Center | Details

  1. Motionbox – Chris O’Brien, Founder & CEO
  2. Cruxy.com – Jon Oates, Founder & CEO (Launch)
  3. Phanfare – Andrew Erlichson, Founder & CEO
  4. Comverse – Lior Bronshtein, Systems Engineer

July 26, 2006 @ Tribeca Film Center - Kick-Off Meetup!

  1. blip.tv – Dina Kaplan, Founder & VP BD
  2. veotag – Steve Durham, Founder
  3. Dragonfly – Guy Nouri, Founder & CEO
  4. Rocketboom – Andrew Baron, Founder & CEO