Lifesize is a video and audio telecommunications company in the United States which provides high definition

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endpoints and accessories, touchscreen conference room phones and a cloud-based video

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. Lifesize's headquarters is located in Austin,

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. Its Europe, Middle East and Africa regional office is located in

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History

Lifesize was founded by Craig Malloy and Michael Kenoyer in January 2003. It operated in “stealth mode” under the name KMV Technologies from 2003 to 2005. Investors in Lifesize included

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, Pinnacle Ventures,

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and

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. The company name change to Lifesize Communications was unveiled at the

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in May 2005. This is also when Lifesize announced its first product, Lifesize Room, which was the first high definition video conferencing endpoint brought to market. Malloy was a product manager at VTEL Corporation until 1996, when he left and founded ViaVideo. ViaVideo was acquired by

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in 1998. Malloy was the senior vice president and general manager of the Video Communication Division of Polycom through 2002, when he left to found his own high definition video telecommunications company. In 2009,

Logitech Logitech International S.A. ( ; often shortened to Logi) is a Swiss multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software, with headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Newark, California. The company has offices throughout Europe, ...

acquired Lifesize for US$405 million in cash. Lifesize then became a division of Logitech, but continued to operate as a separate division led by Malloy.New York Times
Logitech Breaks Into Videoconferencing

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, November 11, 2009. Malloy served as the Lifesize CEO from 2003 – 2012, and resumed the role in February 2014. Lifesize was spun out of Logitech in early 2016 and is privately owned. In March 2020, Lifesize announced a merger with Serenova, a contact centre-as-a-service (CCaaS) provider. In August 2020, Lifesize announced the acquisition of Kaptivo, a digital collaboration company based in

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, UK. In 2022 Trent Waterhouse was appointed as CEO.

Technology

Lifesize is a Video Conferencing and Collaboration business, based in Austin, Texas, that provides technology for face-to-face communications, including high definition

, sometimes known as

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. The company brought their video communication technology to market in 2005. Lifesize product portfolio includes high definition endpoints and accessories, NAT/ firewall traversal, touchscreen conference room phones,

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gateways, Multipoint Control Units and management systems, as well as mobile video conferencing software and a cloud-based IaaS offering for video conferencing. Lifesize also offers a recording and sharing service called Lifesize Cloud Amplify. In 2016, Lifesize brought huddle room systems to the market with Smartframing camera technology embedded.

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