212.967.9613 x105 | 
Panvidea Named an AlwaysOn East Top 100 Winner
Company Selected as a Leading East Coast Private Company for 2010
New York – 11th June 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in the on-demand video preparation, processing and distribution of entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform, has today announced that it has been selected to the 2010 AlwaysOn East Top 100 Private Companies List.
The AlwaysOn East Top 100 Award is given to East Coast companies pioneering in cloud computing and SaaS, digital media, and greentech. The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at the Blackstone Group, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonnenschein, and industry experts across the globe, selected Panvidea based its demonstrated ability to forge innovative solutions that are transforming industries and generating huge value-creation opportunities.
“Panvidea’s inclusion in the AlwaysOn East Top 100 is a great honor and a validation of our success in transforming the way media companies manage and process their video assets,” said Chris Cali, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Panvidea. “Panvidea is leading the way in providing flexible, business-centric tools for media providers and their distribution partners. Tools that help them handle the business challenges of multi-platform distribution as well as the technical challenges.”
Panvidea and the other AlwaysOn East 100 winners will be recognized at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit East 2010, being held at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA, on June 21-23, 2010. This executive event, co-presented by The Blackstone Group, will highlight the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor.
“After examining the companies that are on the AOE100 list, it’s obvious that innovation is not only alive and well on the East Coast, it’s accelerating in economic power and scope.” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”
The AlwaysOn East Top 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other East Coast technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders.
“This award further demonstrates our technical and business leadership in digital video preparation, processing and distribution” said Vice President of Marketing, Doug Heise. “Panvidea is the only cloud-based video processing solution that is designed to meet the needs of professional media companies across the entire digital media value chain including content owners and broadcasters, advertisers, and direct response marketers. We are excited that the AlwaysOn editors recognized our ability to provide a unique and cost effective solution for transforming and delivering video assets for our clients.”
A full list of all the AlwaysOn East Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://www.aonetwork.com/node/65221.
About Panvidea:
Panvidea is a global leader in the preparation, processing and distribution of professional entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform. Originally founded as mPOINT in November 2007, the company re-branded in Spring 2010 with co-founder Chris Cali as CEO, to become Panvidea. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, on-demand solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Panvidea’s secure software service eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for internal use or external digital distribution. For more information visit http://www.panvidea.com/
About AlwaysOn:
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.
Press enquiries:
Doug Heise, dheise@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8618
Chris Cali, ccali@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8610
