AWS Elemental, formerly known as Elemental Technologies, 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.
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History
Elemental was founded in 2006 by three engineers formerly of the semiconductor company Pixelworks: Sam Blackman (CEO), Jesse Rosenzweig (CTO), and Brian Lewis.
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.
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.
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.
In April 2017, the company changed its name from Elemental Technologies to AWS Elemental.
In August 2017, Sam Blackman, the company's CEO and co-founder, died suddenly from cardiac arrest at the age of 41.
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Funding
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.
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.
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.
In May 2012, Elemental closed its Series C financing for $13 million from Norwest Venture Partners.
In December 2014, Elemental closed its Series D financing for $14.5 million led by Telstra and Sky (United Kingdom).
In September 2015, Elemental was acquired by Amazon Web Services.
Products
Elemental Live
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.
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
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. 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.
Elemental Delta
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.
Elemental Cloud
Elemental Cloud provides transcoding services in a cloud computing environment using clustered graphics processors.
Elemental Statmux
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
Elemental Conductor is a scalable management system of two or more Elemental video processing systems.
Badaboom
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. The company supported Badaboom until April, 2013, without further software updates.
Awards
- 2014 IABM Design and Innovation--Best Playout and Delivery System
- 2013 Cable & Satellite International (CSI) -- Best in Digital Video Processing, Elemental Technologies
- 2013 ConnectedWorld.TV Awards--Best Delivery Technology, Elemental Technologies
- 2013 Portland Business Journal 100 Fastest Growing Companies -- #6, Elemental Technologies
- 2013 Oregon Technology Awards--Technology Growth Company of the Year, Elemental Technologies
- 2012 Forbes America's 100 Most Promising Companies -- #23, Elemental Technologies
- 2012 Inc. (magazine) 500, America's Fastest Growing Private Companies -- #52, Elemental Technologies
- 2011 Forbes America's 100 Most Promising Companies -- #54, Elemental Technologies
- 2011 Streaming Media Editors' Pick--Elemental Live
- 2010 TV Technology Mario Award--Elemental Live
References
External links
- Official website
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