Elemental Technologies
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Video software |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters |
Portland, Oregon (incorporated in Delaware) United States |
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Key people
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Samuel S. Blackman, CEO and co-founder Jesse J. Rosenzweig, CTO and co-founder Brian G. Lewis, Chief Architect and co-founder John Ewert, CFO Daniel Marshall, Sr. VP Sales Keith Wymbs, CMO Aslam Khader, CPO Greg Zwart, VP Global Services |
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Number of employees
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209 (2014) |
| Parent | Amazon Web Services |
| Website | elementaltechnologies.com |
AWS Elemental 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 . 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.
Elemental was founded in 2006 by three engineers formerly of the semiconductor company Pixelworks: CEO Sam Blackman, CTO Jesse Rosenzweig, and Chief Architect 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.
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.
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