mywaves is the largest mobile video destination for consumers, attracting over 5 million unique visitors monthly to its free mobile video service. Consumers can browse through more than 400,000 channels of professionally programmed videos and have their favorites automatically updated and delivered to their phones. Most users tune in to watch mywaves video weekly with average viewing times of 19 minutes per session. The service works globally across all 3G, EDGE, EV-DO, WiFi, and WiMAX netwoks on most video-capable mobile phones, including Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian and RIM based phones. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., mywaves is led by a team from Yahoo!, Napster, Danger, Palm and TiVo. The company is funded by venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures.

(Source:mywaves.com)

Financials

Date Type Amount Investors Valuation
01/01/06 Series A 6M GoPEP Tech Fund Unknown

People

Scirocco Six (Chief Architect)

Jason Fisher (Sr. Software Engineer)

Brian MacDonald (Board member)

Sterling Mace (Board member)

Scirocco Michelle Six (Board member)

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