Philo (Internet television)
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| Founded | 2009 |
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| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Key people | Andrew McCollum (CEO) |
| Industry | Internet television |
| Services | live TV through the web |
| Employees | 28 |
| Slogan(s) | Turn on the future of TV |
| Website | https://www.philo.com |
Philo (formerly Tivli) is an internet television company currently based in San Francisco, California. The service first launched at Harvard University in 2009. Investors in the company include HBO, Facebook co-founder, Andrew McCollum, and Mark Cuban.
Philo was founded in 2009 by then Harvard seniors Nicholas Krasney and Tuan Ho. It began as an experiment using aluminium foil as a makeshift satellite dish in order to "pick up TV signals and deliver them wirelessly to their laptops via a jerry-rigged server". At its launch, the project was intended to be a way to circumvent the fact that Harvard did not provide cable TV service for its students. When the service way made available to others in 2011, half of the Harvard resident population registered for it within the first few weeks of the offer.
In 2009 Philo, as Tivli, first incubated in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard Innovation Lab (iLab) before moving to Harvard Square in 2013. After securing their Series B round, Philo moved again in 2015 to San Francisco, California.
In July, 2013, the venture raised a $6.3 million round led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates. Among the Series A investors, were Mark Cuban from Radical Investments LP, HBO, Rho Ventures and Hugo Van Vuuren from Experiment Fund. The same year the company was rebranded as Philo, from its former name, Tivli.
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