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and the United Arab Emirates. Vuclip is headquartered in

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Overview

Founders and investors

Vuclip was incorporated as a Milpitas-based mobile video search company by Nickhil Jakatdar (Founder and CEO, Vuclip) and Xinhui Niu in July 2008. The company raised $13 million in Series D, led by a new investor,

SingTel Singapore Telecommunications Limited, trading as Singtel, is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate, the country's principal fixed-line operator and one of the four major mobile network operators operating in the country. Overview T ...

Innov8 as the lead investor. Since inception in 2008, Vuclip has attracted more than $40 million in investment from outfits including U.S. venture capital firms

New Enterprise Associates New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm. NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage across an array of industry sectors. With over $25 billion in committed capital, NEA is one of t ...

and

Jafco Ventures Jafco Co. was a multimillion-dollar chain of American catalog show room retail stores founded by Sidney Z. Jaffe in 1957. Headquartered in Seattle, Seattle, Washington, the company sold a wide variety of items from stereo and photographic equipme ...

and Singapore's SingTel Innov8. In March 2015, PCCW Media, a Hong Kong-based Media and Entertainment Group acquired a majority stake in the company to enable it to expand it’s services in the Asia Pacific region.

Acquisitions

In February 2013, Vuclip made its first acquisition; the mobile video company Jigsee, to expand its own premium content inventory and app capabilities in India, one of Vuclip's biggest markets.

Awards and recognition

Mobby's Award for Best New App at the Mobile Digital and Marketing Summit

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ref name=MoobyAward/> Smarties India Award for the publisher/media company of the year

Impact's Icons of India's Digital Ecosystem.

References

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