Vidyo
Company

Last deal

$12M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

06.07.2018

Date

3

all rounds

$192.28M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Vidyo is a company that provides an internet-based videoconferencing tool to visually connect millions of users around the world..

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Also Known As

Layered Media

founded date

01.04.2005

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

Vidyo's video conferencing tool is a software communication and collaboration platform that can be customized for healthcare, government, and educational needs. Their technology provides the highest quality embedded video and enterprise video conferencing, revolutionizing and simplifying how we communicate in healthcare, banking, IoT, customer engagement, enterprise collaboration, government, field services, and more. Vidyo is a diverse team with hundreds of employees all over the world, and they believe their mission is just getting started.
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Legal Names

Legal name

Vidyo, Inc.
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M&A Details
1

Acquired by

Enghouse Systems

announced date

15.05.2019

price

$40M

Financials

Funding Rounds
13
3

Number of Funding Rounds

$192.28M

Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 06.07.2018. Their latest round Venture - Series Unknown

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
06.07.2018
$12M
01.01.2018
1
$22M
06.10.2017
$9.38M
Co-Investors
Investors
13
5

Number of lead investors

13

Number of investors

Investor 
Lead 
Round 
Partners 
No
Series B, Series C, Series D
No
Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E
Yes
Series B, Series D
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People

Founders
3
Ofer Shapiro
Ofer Shapiro

Ofer Shapiro

Ofer Shapiro co-founded Vidyo, Inc. in 2005 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President until February 2015. Ofer Shapiro serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer at Nucleix, Ltd. Ofer Shapiro served as Vice President of Business Development & Product Strategy of Arel Communications & Software Ltd. since, January 20, 2004. He has over fifteen years of experience in bringing disruptive technology. Ofer Shapiro served as Senior Vice President of business development of Radvision Ltd., since September 2000. He joined Arel from Radvision, where he held several key positions over the past eight years. he was responsible for developing new business plans and strategic partnerships. Ofer Shapiro served as Vice President of Strategic Accounts, and leading the development of Radvision Ltd.'s first gatekeeper multipoint conferencing unit products. he was responsible for strategic alliances with major IP networking and telecom partners. As a key member of R&D, he initiated and led the development of Arel Communications & Software Ltd.'s trend-setting gatekeeper and IP multipoint conferencing unit products, and was among the editors of the ITU-T H.323 recommendation. Earlier in his career, Ofer Shapiro was a Department Head in the Israeli Defense force for five years, where he managed electro-optics related projects. He has been the Vice Chairman of Vidyo, Inc. since February 2015. He serves as Board Member of Vidyo, Inc. Ofer Shapiro holds a BSc degree in Maths and Physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an M.Sc. in applied physics from Tel Aviv University.

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Ofer Shapiro

Isaac Levy
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Alex Eleftheriadis
Alex Eleftheriadis

Alex Eleftheriadis

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Employee Profiles
181

Antony Martin

Vice president product and engineering

Kyeong Yang

Director of video communications

Tzachi Levy

Senior vice president, product and engineering

Krishnan Ram

Director of product management - platform and infrastructure at vidyo

Stephen Lorello

Api support engineer

Ralph Pagano

Account development representative

Muralidharan Billon

Solutions consultant and technical account manager

Edgar Villanueva

Edgar Villanueva

VP Engineering

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