Mux (company)
American technology company
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Mux is a video technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California.[1] Mux focuses on video streaming infrastructure software and video performance analytics.[2]
Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Streaming media |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founder | Jonathan Dahl, Steve Heffernan, Matthew McClure, Adam Brown |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Products | Mux Data, Mux Video |
| Website | mux |
History
Mux was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Dahl, Steve Heffernan, Matthew McClure, and Adam Brown.[3] Jonathan Dahl and Steve Heffernan are the founders of Zencoder, a cloud encoding company sold to Brightcove in 2012.[4] The name “Mux” is short for “multiplexing,” a reference to combining multiple signals into one in digital media.
Mux has raised a total of $11.8m from Accel Partners, YCombinator, Lowercase Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, and more.[5][3] Mux is member of Heavybit[6] and went through the YCombinator program in 2016.[7][8]
Mux's first product was a quality of service (QoS) analytics platform to measure a viewer's experience while watching video.[2][9] In 2018, Mux announced an API for video streaming[10][11] using per-title encoding,[12] a technique similar to that used by Netflix.[13]