video software founded 2006 headquarters portland oregon incorporated in delaware united states key people samuel s. blackman ceo and co founder jesse j. rosenzweig cto and co founder brian g. lewis chief architect and co founder john ewert cfo daniel marshall sr. vp sales keith wymbs cmo aslam khader cpo greg zwart vp global services number of employees 209 2014 parent amazon web services website elementaltechnologies.com elemental technologies inc. is a software company headquartered in portland oregon and owned by amazon web services that specializes in providing multiscreen video solutions . founded in august 2006 elemental creates software that performs video encoding decoding transcoding and pixel processing tasks on commodity hardware for adaptive bitrate streaming of video over ip networks . elemental video processing software runs in turnkey cloud based and virtualized deployment models . the company has offices in the united states the united kingdom france hong kong singapore japan china russia india and brazil . contents 1 history 2 funding 3 products 3.1 elemental live 3.2 elemental server 3.3 elemental delta 3.4 elemental cloud 3.5 elemental statmux 3.6 elemental conductor 3.7 badaboom 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit elemental was founded in 2006 by three engineers formerly of the semiconductor company pixelworks ceo sam blackman cto jesse rosenzweig and chief architect brian lewis . 1 in july 2012 elemental products supported the broadcast of the 2012 summer olympics on internet devices for media companies including the bbc eurosport terra networks and others . 2 3 in september 2013 elemental was named to the silicon forest top 25 by the oregonian . the company ranked 24 among the region s largest technology companies . 4 in october 2013 elemental provided live 4k hevc video streaming of the 2013 osaka marathon in a workflow designed by k opticom a telecommunications operator in japan . funding edit elemental received its initial investments in 2007 in the amount of 1.05 million from three angel funds the seattle based alliance of angels the oregon angel fund and the bend venture conference . 5 in july 2008 elemental announced it had closed its first round of venture capital financing receiving 7.1 million which included investments from general catalyst partners of boston massachusetts and voyager capital of seattle washington . 6 in july 2010 elemental raised an additional 7.5 million in series b financing . steamboat ventures a venture capital firm affiliated with the walt disney company joined existing venture funds general catalyst and voyager capital in the financing round . 7 in may 2012 elemental closed its series c financing for 13 million from norwest venture partners . 8 in december 2014 elemental closed its series d financing for 14.5 million led by telstra and sky united kingdom . 9 in september 2015 elemental was acquired by amazon web services . 10 products edit elemental live edit in april 2010 elemental introduced its enterprise product elemental live a gpu accelerated enterprise class video processing system that provides content distributors with video and audio encoding for live streaming to new media platforms . 11 elemental live made its debut at nab in las vegas april 12 15 2010 with a four screen demonstration featuring simultaneous real time encoding of multiple video streams targeted to mobile tablet web and hdtv platforms . elemental server edit in november 2009 elemental released the first video server appliance to utilize the graphics processing unit for video on demand vod transcoding . the company claims its performance equals that of seven dual quad core cpu servers . 12 other potential benefits include conversion speed reduced power usage less physical space and overall cost which is reported to be less than half of a cpu server . 13 elemental delta edit elemental delta is a video delivery platform designed to optimize the monetization management and distribution of multiscreen video across internal and external ip networks . elemental delta has been presented at ibc in september 2014 and won the iabm design and innovation award for playout and delivery systems . 14 elemental cloud edit elemental cloud provides transcoding services in a cloud computing environment using clustered graphics processors . elemental statmux edit elemental statmux is a software based statistical multiplexer that optimizes content delivery for pay tv operators by reallocating bits in real time between video encoders and combining the outputs from multiple encoders into a single transport stream . elemental conductor edit elemental conductor is a scalable management system of two or more elemental video processing systems . badaboom edit on october 23 2008 elemental released badaboom a consumer media converter in partnership with nvidia corporation . badaboom uses elemental s video engine to transcode video files from several formats including mpeg2 h. 264 hdv avchd and raw into the h. 264 format for devices such as the ipod iphone and sony psp . elemental technologies announced badaboom 2.0 is the final version and discontinued the product . 15 the company supported badaboom until april 2013 without further software updates . awards edit 2014 iabm design and innovation best playout and delivery system 16 2013 cable & satellite international csi best in digital video processing elemental technologies 17 2013 connectedworld.tv awards best delivery technology elemental technologies 18 2013 portland business journal 100 fastest growing companies 6 elemental technologies 19 2013 oregon technology awards technology growth company of the year elemental technologies 20 2012 forbes america s 100 most promising companies 23 elemental technologies 21 2012 inc. magazine 500 america s fastest growing private companies 52 elemental technologies 22 2011 forbes america s 100 most promising companies 54 elemental technologies 23 2011 streaming media editors pick elemental live 24 2010 tv technology mario award elemental live 25 references edit pixelworks invests in elemental technologies inc. . business wire . 2006 10 16 . retrieved 2012 07 30 . siemers eric 2012 07 16 . elemental helps power olympics coverage . portland business journal . retrieved 2012 07 30 . markowitz erik 2012 07 11 . now playing on your iphone the olympics . inc. magazine . retrieved 2012 07 30 . rogoway mike 2013 09 23 . silicon forest 25 2013 edition . oregonlive.com . retrieved 2013 09 23 . brinckman jonathan 2008 07 18 . portland startup success is on electronic display . oregonlive.com . retrieved 2012 07 30 . rogoway mike 2008 07 17 . elemental technologies lands first venture investment . oregonlive.com . retrieved 2012 07 27 . rogoway mike 2010 07 27 . elemental technologies wins backing from steamboat ventures disney s vc arm . oregonlive.com . retrieved 2012 07 27 . rogoway mike 2012 05 07 . elemental technologies raises 13 million venture round prepares global marketing push . oregonlive.com . retrieved 2012 07 27 . rogoway mike 2014 12 22 . elemental technologies adds 14.5 million investment led by global broadcasters telstra and sky . oregonlive.com . retrieved 2014 12 22 . elemental technologies portland s biggest young tech company sells to amazon web services . retrieved 2015 09 03 . elemental live shakes up the economics of video streaming . gigaom . 2010 04 06 . retrieved 2012 07 26 . elemental takes transcoding to the gpu . contentinople . 2009 05 20 . retrieved 2009 05 20 . newteevee s next big thing list 2009 . gigaom . 2009 05 19 . retrieved 2009 05 19 . iabm design and innovation awards 2014 . iabm . 2014 09 13 . retrieved 2014 09 26 . badaboom end of life announcement . elemental technologies . 2012 04 18 . retrieved 2012 07 26 . iabm design and innovation awards iabm 2014 retrieved 2014 09 26 csi 2013 award winners cable & satellite international 2013 retrieved 2013 11 01 connectedworld.tv 2013 award winners connected world 2013 retrieved 2013 09 16 pbj100 see where the fastest growing companies rank portland business journal 2013 retrieved 2013 01 22 the technology association of oregon names 2013 oregon technology award winners technology association of oregon 2013 retrieved 2013 04 26 america s most promising companies forbes 2012 retrieved 2013 11 01 the 2012 inc. 5000 list inc. 2012 retrieved 2012 08 29 america s most promising companies forbes 2011 retrieved 2012 07 30 schumacher rasmussen eric 2011 2011 editors picks for the best in streaming video streaming media magazine retrieved 2012 07 30 tv technology announces star mario awards for the 2010 nab show tv technology 2010 retrieved 2012 07 30 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title elemental technologies & oldid 729487631 categories software companies based in oregoncompanies based in portland oregontechnology companies established in 2006privately held companies based in 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