Video: Boxee's Avner Ronen on raising VC, competition, new features

After raising $4 million from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital earlier this month, media-center software developer Boxee is releasing new content and features on Thursday. The biggest change is that users can play, browse and queue up movies through Netflix (although the Netflix program doesn't work with AppleTV yet).

Boxee is also releasing new content from several sources, including TheWB (popular TV shows Angel, Buffy, Firefly, The O.C., Smallville and In Living Color); The Boston Globe (the Big Picture blog); and MTVMusic (songs and artists in your collection are now linked to music videos). And the company has upgraded its interfaces for Hulu, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa. Boxee is also distributing a "pre-alpha" Windows version of its software to a few hundred "friends and family" users.

In Tech Confidential's Behind the Money video, Boxee founder and CEO Avner Ronen talks about how he managed to win over Union Square's Fred Wilson and Spark's Bijan Sabet and raise venture capital in today's dismal economic climate and about the company's competition for control of the living room with the likes of Apple Inc. [APPL], Comcast Corp. [CMCSA], Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] and Sony Corp. [SNE]. --Mary Kathleen Flynn



For comments or suggestions about Deal Video, please contact mwoehr@thedeal.com. Use the following embed code to run this video on your Web site:

See Nov. 18 post on Boxee by Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures blog
See Nov. 18 post on Boxee from Bijan Sabet's blog
See Nov. 17 post by Avner Rosen on Boxee blog

Continue reading below

Post a comment

Name:

Email Address:

URL:

Remember personal info?

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)

Please only click "Post" once. It may take a few moments to process.

Deal Video

	Inside The Deal: Avaya Inc.'s Mohamad Ali on the company's next target.
More video...

Elsewhere on The Deal.com

Dealwatch

• Confectioners: Cadbury, Hershey, more
• AOL
• Restaurants in the hot seat
• Ponzi schemes, fraud and other misdeeds

The Deal Magazine

• The kids are all right
• The search for auspiciousness
• Be true to your school
• Waiting to exhale

Corporate Dealmaker

• Dell drives in IT services as PC slump deepens
• Proxy prelim: CF wins Terra board seats
• Deal Economy 2010: Avaya's Ali on digesting Nortel
• Disney, Microsoft, Abbott Labs win M&A awards

The Deal Video

• Deal Economy 2010: Centerview's Effron on large deals
• Deal Economy 2010: Bove on Goldman's $500M donation
• Bove's top two candidates for BofA CEO
• PwC's Ross on divestments

Categories

• Bankruptcy
• Corporate restructuring
• Deal international
• Dealmakers
• Featured
• IPOs
• M&A
• Middle market
• Law & regulation
• Private capital
• Conferences
• Technology

Blog roll

• BloggingBuyouts
• BloggingStocks
• Dealbook
• DealBreaker
• Deal Journal
• FT Alphaville
• footnoted.org
• Going Private
• peHUB
• Reuters Dealzone
• SEC Investor
• Prince Of Wall Street
• Bankruptcy Bill
• Information Arbitrage

Archives

• November 2009
• October 2009
• September 2009
• August 2009
• July 2009
• June 2009
• May 2009
• April 2009
• March 2009
• February 2009
• January 2009
• December 2008
• November 2008
• October 2008
• September 2008
• August 2008
• July 2008
• June 2008
• May 2008
• April 2008
• March 2008
• February 2008
• January 2008
• December 2007
• November 2007
• October 2007
• September 2007
• August 2007
• July 2007
• June 2007
• May 2007
• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
• January 2007
• December 2006
• November 2006
• October 2006
• September 2006
• August 2006
• July 2006
• June 2006
• May 2006
• April 2006
• March 2006
• February 2006
• January 2006
• December 2005