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Highfive is an American based that designs and produces video conferencing and web conferencing solutions.[1] It provides video collaboration cloud service with integrated camera for face-to-face video conferences to help team communication and collaborate with each other.[2] Highfive provides SaaS (software as a service) and cloud computing solutions to small, medium and enterprise businesses.[3][4]

History

Highfive co-founded by Shan Sinha and Jeremy Roy in 2012. They founded DocVerse, which became Google Drive.[5] Shah Sinha is a company’s co-founder and chief executive, worked as group product manager for Google Apps for Enterprise[6] while Roy worked as the engineering lead for Google+ for Enterprise.[7] The company has raised $13.4 million funding in series A led by Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff, Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston, Box founder and CEO Aaron Levie, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst Partners.[8][9][10] Highfive has raised $32 million in Series B funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and existing partners include General Catalyst, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Dropbox’s Drew Houston.[11] The Company's headquartered is located in California, USA.[12] Highfive partnered with Dolly Labs for video or audio conferencing services and as of now highfive has 1500 customers.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ryan Lawler (7 October 2014). "Highfive Turns Any Room Into A Cloud-Based Video Conferencing Room For $799". Techcrunch. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  2. ^ Beth Schultz (9 December 2015). "Highfive Ditches Per-User Pricing for Cloud Video". No Jitter. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Highfive wants to become the Nest of B2B video conferencing". Network World. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  4. ^ Josh Ong. "Highfive: A new device and cloud service that will fix your meetings and video conferences". The Next web. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  5. ^ Cade Metz (7 October 2014). "The Next Big Thing You Missed: Supercharging Video Conferences for the Smartphone Age". Wired. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  6. ^ "Highfive videoconferencing is for the masses thanks to an affordable price point". Tech Times. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  7. ^ Mark Hachman (7 October 2014). "Highfive's $799 videoconferencing tool throws meetings to your TV". PC World. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  8. ^ Ben Popper (7 October 2014). "This startup hopes to make conference calls feel less like the ninth circle of hell". The Verge. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Funding Roundup". Snapmunk. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  10. ^ Alex Konrad (12 March 2015). "Highfive Raises $32 Million To Bring Cheap Video To Conference Rooms Worldwide". Forbes. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  11. ^ Ryan Lawler (12 March 2015). "Highfive Raises $32 Million For Its Video Conferencing System". Techcrunch. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  12. ^ Julie Balise (12 January 2015). "Office Space: Highfive's office is built for video-conferencing". SF Gate. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  13. ^ Benny Evangelista (4 May 2016). "Dolby Labs, Highfive partner on video, audio conferencing service". SF Gate. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
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