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JW Player

http://www.jwplayer.com/
Last activity: 25.03.2025
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JW Player is the New York-based startup that pioneered video on the web and is now innovating for the future. Started in 2008 as the world’s first open source video player, today the company’s customers span the globe across 193 countries and range from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. The company’s flagship product, JW Player, is live on more than 2 million sites with 17 billion video streams to a billion monthly unique viewers across all devices — phones, tablets, and desktops. Nearly five percent of all video streams worldwide are delivered through JW Player. In addition to the player, the company’s services include video hosting and streaming, advertising, and analytics. For more information, see www.jwplayer.com.
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Location: United States, New York
Employees: 201-500
Phone: +1 212-244-0140
Total raised: $140M
Founded date: 2008

Investors 5

Funding Rounds 3

DateSeriesAmountInvestors
29.06.2021Series E$100M-
05.01.2016Series D$20M-
17.09.2014Series C$20M-

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25.03.2025JWP Connatix Announces John Nardone as Chief Executive OfficerJWP Connatix (JWPC), a leading video technology and monetization platform, announced that John Nardone has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer, effective today. Nardone will lead JWP Connatix into its next phase of strategic growt...
19.02.2025Whip Media Appoints Welby Chen as Chief Executive OfficerWelby Chen brings extensive expertise in the software, technology, and entertainment sectors, with a proven track record of scaling companies to global operations Chen brings over 20 years of leadership in entertainment and technology, with...
16.01.2024JW Player Suffers Severe Traffic Loss After Dynamic Piracy Blocking BlunderJW Player was born around 2005 as an open source project, taking its name from the initials of main developer, Jeroen Wijering. During the mid to late 2,000s, most people who consumed video online encountered JW Player at least once; before...
30.01.202350 recently-funded startups to watch in 2023With the ongoing economic downturn and fear of a recession, tech startups have been hit hard as investors pulled back from new venture deals and reduce their investment in startups with exposure to recession. Further expounding on the fundi...
19.01.2023JW Player Buys InPlayerJW Player, a NY-based SaaS video platform for broadcasters, publishers, and other video-driven companies, is acquiring InPlayer, a London, UK-based provider of subscription management and identity management technology. The amount of the de...
29.06.2021JW Player Raises $100M in Series E FundingJW Player, a NYC-based provider of a video software and data insights platform, raised $100M in Series E funding. The round was led by LLR Partners. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product innovation, expand its global go...
25.06.2021Daily funding roundup - June 24th, 2021Figma raised $200M; SmartAsset landed $110M; ShipHero secured $50M; Lessen picks up $35M Illumio: Illumio is a Sunnyvale, Ca.-based cybersecurity company. Illumio has raised $225 million in Series F funding led by Thoma Bravo, with particip...
24.06.2021Video streaming and analytics platform JW Player raises $100MWhere does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. JW Player, a video streaming and analytics platform for major enterprise and publishing companies, has raised $100 million in a series E round of fun...
24.06.2021JW Player raises $100M to build subscriptions and other monetization tools around its video softwareJW Player, a very early mover in the market for online video technology — it powered YouTube’s first video player, before Google acquired it and it built its own — has long been profitable through a business model of providing one-to-many v...
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